It's never just one thing with bonsai, it's the whole
picture. In addition to soil you have feeding,
pruning, light, etc. We grew pretty good bonsai in
dense soil and maintained growth by starving the
trees, now the styles and things we do to our trees
have changed, like time.
If you have a method that works for you, don't change
just one part of it because someone else claims they
are getting good results with one change. Get the
whole picture.
I use a very fast draining soil, but I water twice a
day. I can flush or feed with this system. Would it
work if I was in an area of wetter or dryer weather?
Would it work if I was in a different zone? Would it
work if I transplanted on a different schedule? I do
lots of things that are out of style and not yet in
style. I watch the trees, they tell me what they
need.
Kits
--- Mathias Uely wrote:
HI Iris
wrote:
In a message dated 3/29/05 12:02:26 AM, Mathias
Uely writes:
granite with sharp edges(very important) and you
will get the same risult
,& with no problems of soil that might get clumped
and the roots will split
more easily and grow dense
This is a myth.
I do not think so I am not the only one to use it
and to be enthusisat
A maple that I have was a Korea grown and was in
this horrid soil had
roots thin and dense looke Afro hairs
the 2 garden centers that had these plants (
recognizable by the
pinkish gravel refused to have the following year
the same plants as
had too much mortality as the soil was drying too
fast
My deshojo had borers I payd nothing for such a
tree and it is very
alive...it makes 3 years now that is growing in
such a soil
The forces that promote root splitting occur at a
molecular
level & have nothing directly to do with the shape
of the soil particles.
apparently it does with shape
In
addition to water & nutrients, the soil must
contain air.
and when gravel is irregularly broken allws a
better circulation of air
The soil particles
that promote the most air would be as round as a
ball bearing.
totally wrong , for instance expanded clay
suitable for
aquaculture is pushed by roots to the center of
the roots pads ( my
personal experience)
Crushed granite
chicken grit
synthetic material ?
with its sharp edges makes a good bonsai soil
component,
so why not using granite in europe is asily
available ,.. and can be
recicloed for others bonsais
but so
does aquarium gravel with rounded edges.
first of all I prefer granite or pozzolana or
lava aquarium gravel
is rounded and is good to be added to pozzolana or
chicken grit or pumice
Best regards
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