sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Yeah, forgive me, that stuff looks ok.
It's just that, "dream", is pushing it for me.
Sorce
Potting nursery stock
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Yeah, forgive me, that stuff looks ok.
It's just that, "dream", is pushing it for me.
Sorce
If you can water properly there is nothing wrong with nursery soil, the tree has likely lived in it it's entire life after all. Repotting into bonsai soil now has a much greater chance of harming the tree than just letting it recover in nursery soil until next year (or even the year after). I have a spruce I bought from a nursery almost 3 years ago and haven't repotted it yet and I'm glad since I have been pruning it.
colley614
Shohin
Fair enough, I was just thinking I didn't like the look of the soil as it seemed very soggy after we have had daily precipitation for a few weeks. Some of which has been heavy and for extended periods.
Japonicus
Imperial Masterpiece
Here's what I thought I was going to do, a cedar 15 gallon patio pot
but to keep the feeder roots that remained when I was done with the 1st root reduction
I had to build a 2x6", 12 gallon grow box instead, for which I could really use some pointers
for further reducing the root system. It looks bigger, but is a bit more shallow.
I know you're dealing with nursery evergreens, but same theory
to have ample options which comes with years of potting up an assortment.
You end up with extras, and you buy extras, and make some too. Some trees die, but you keep the pots.
Japonicus
Imperial Masterpiece
I bought this pot on the right specifically for my hinoki
I didn't like it. The hinoki is in a glaaazed pot, but soil was still draining good enough that I put off potting it up till this year,
and I like the darker clay to contrast the lighter foliage too, so this pot was a no.
Look who got it! A Japanese yew from a nursery can after bare rooting it. See how much foliage I left on. No styling done yet.
I pruned a COUPLE of branches months prior. I knew I would pot up 1st with this particular project.
Then there are times, and more often than not, contradictory to a lot of recommendations, I style 1st, grow out shaggy then pot up.
That can negate finding the front of the tree based on the nebari though, which should affect the styling, and front choice.
However it gets the tree into bends at a more supple age...
colley614
Shohin
I think most of mine will stay in the nursery pot for this growing season. At this stage I'm more interested in getting my hands on a few trees to start working. My Yew looks pot bound and I have a European ash that I was given in a really old plant pot that I want to repot. The Yew looks like it self germinated at the side of a pot with a rose in and the rose has since died. But the whole pot is a mass of root. So, I want to repot the ash this year and maybe the Yew if it doesn't sulk. But for the most part I'd like to spend the summer adding to my collection. Then in winter I could make up my own soil (I'm looking at moler clay and perlite and am considering adding organic to the mix as I work 12 hour days) and buy some training pots ready to repot the following season.
