"Jim Lewis" wrote in message
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Well, he said it has been 2 months since the surgery, so even if
it IS damaging to fertilize after root work -- and I do not
think it is -- enough time would have passed.

No fertilization after root work, use of dilute fertilizer (then
or any other time) are all (IMHO) bonsai myths. NO ONE has
managed to provide me with the science behind any of them.

I routinely fertilize after repotting, and I always mix the
fertilizer according to the label, and have never had any
problems therefrom.

I know from me, relatively a newbie to this, it may not come as sound
evidence, but I too cannot see the problem with fertilising after repotting.
I have always done it with no problems, especially too when some ferts along
the lines of seasol/seaweed based ones suggest it is good for transplant
shock.
This year after repotting I read a book within a few days not to fertlise
after repotting. Too late for me, I had done it, as with the past 4 years.
It didn't say it would kill them, but they may suffer.
What happened with the maple and elm being late in shooting I'm not sure. I
will put it down to a combination of elms naturally being late (as another
poster suggested), and the heavy rootpruning I did. I'm just glad the maple
wasn't suffering some disease problem, and that it was just a natural
process as I found out.
Cheers
Andrew
--
Mid North Coast
New South Wales
Australia


Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson


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