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bonsaiTALK Master Chief
Join Date: Dec-2002
Location: Amsterdam
Country: Netherlands
Posts: 1,260
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Well Guys, I must thank you collectively for all of your advice, so here's the deal.
Had the trees given to me and sent to me by a bonsai cilleague, all the way from Miami, Florida, USA. Arrived well and happy after a five days experience in a cardboard box, no customs hastle either.
So the two, a handsome pair, were just treated like that, and were potted into a pair of deep Chinese pots, 1st mistake. They survived for about a year OK. Then one started showing signs of distress, me no understanding the WHY, the other lived in the same light and West facing window, was flourishing.
No Animals of any sort, just leaf drop, slowly at first then began to increase, but still very healthy leaves exist.
I repotted the two trees together, removed all dead leaves and a few dead branchlets and moved the pot, trees and all to an East facing window, artificial light is what we call DAYlight Bulbs, they are blue in colour and are made expressly for the purpose, of growing plants indoors.
New leaflets are just beginning to show, I love these trees, and the sad thing is that for some ridiculous reason they are not on Hollands official tree register, along with some other beauties that I also have trouble getting my hands on.
Also exists one very small pot of two cuttings, rich with leaf, and anoth slightly larger, shohin size, which is bearing up fair to middling.
I'll get to do some pics, this week I hope, a tad too much involved with my new computer, but soon's there's 'nuff time I'll post the pics.
Regards....Nigel
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