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28-02-2004, 05:44 PM

(dalecochoy) held forth in
news:01bd01c3fe14$7c2f9500$0430fea9@dalespc:

What a winter here in the NE.
It is finally supposed to warm up nice this weekend so yesterday I
decided it was time to go out and water my stored trees. It'll be the
first time watered since I put them away in early November. They've
been frozen since then! Wow, the chinese pots are a poppin', sides
gone, feet sitting on the shelf when you pick them up, etc. Another
down side to retail trees :) Now a second repot ( so they'll sell)
will bring the pot cost up to what a nice Japanese pot would have
costed to begin with!. I rarely lose a Japanese pot. Also, EVERYTHING
in the yard and garden that sits on the ground ( without being 3 ft.
deep anchored/footer ) is leaning or fell over! Even granite lantern
is leaning. Even the greenhouse heaved up a bit so the support posts
are lose. I can see I'll need a few days in Spring to go level
everything again! Dale Cochoy, Wild Things Bonsai Studio, Hartville,
Ohio http://www.WildThingsBonsai.Com
Specializing in power wood carving tools.
Yakimono no Kokoro bonsai pottery of hand-built stoneware

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Sorry to hear about your pots Dale. They must have been earthenware
or low fire clay pots. The low fired pots are still porous so frost will
eventually destroy them. I have heard that with low fire pots just
freezing and thawing once will usually not be a problem. Most of the low
fire pots I have made and left outside have gone the way of the dodo. It
is the repeated frost and thaw cycle that breaks the pot. Sounds like you
are in one of those "you get what you pay for" situations.
Send those chinese pots down to Jim, he'll never have that problem.

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Harry in Iowa

"Land of mystery 'cause nobody really lives there"