--- "Peter K." wrote:
I just received the new Bonsai Today and found
something i thought to be
weird. There was an article about making sure you
use drainage soil. I was
under the impression that it has been decided that
drainage soil is more of
a hinderance than a help. Who's right? (FWIW,
the author of the article
was "unknown")


This is a good example of there being no obsoletes in
bonsai (except for water and light ;-} ). There is no
one way to do anything. Styles change, knowledge base
increases, new techniques are discovered. Although in
a small pot coarser drainage soil is not necessary, it
might not be a bad idea in a very large bonsai pot.

In California, we have started watering new
plantings/transplantings from above rather than
soaking because this gives an opportunity to wash the
fines/dust out of the pot, but if you have a
shohin/mame bonsai, chances are you will wash out all
the soil out before you get to the dust.

I have not see the article in question.

Kitsune Miko

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