On May 24, 2005, at 5:26 PM, Gary Huff wrote:

I enjoy the traditions of bonsai as well as the next guy, but I am
experimenting with using the
weight of a bonsai to determine when to water them by incorporating a
little technology. I’m
rather new to bonsai and I am trying the skewer method of determining
when to water my plants,
but sometimes I’m having trouble figuring out exactly when to water
from moisture, or lack of it,
on a skewer stick. Bonsai experts kept saying you can determine when
to water also by the weight

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If you think this is a crazy idea let me know, but I’m thinking it
would be one
way for someone new to this hobby, like myself, and someone who
doesn’t mind using a little
technology with an old artform, to figure out when to water with a
little more certainty, and
hopefully keep a few more bonsai alive and well. Oh yes, try not to
laugh too much at this idea.

Gary Huff
Virginia
Zone 7a


You must not have very many trees.

Craig Cowing
NY
Zone 5b/6a Sunset 37

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