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Hec DeBrabant
Join Date: Nov-2004
Location: Southern Michigan
Country: USA
Posts: 992
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top watering vs soaking
Personally I prefer top watering and that is only after being in bonsai for almost twenty years. However, I am a firm believer that until you learn the fine art of top watering a bonsai, soaking may be the safest way.
I say this because it is so important to get the root mass totally wet. And soaking may be the only sure way for a beginner to accomplish this.
I once read in a bonsai book that the Japanese have a saying that is "water three times, once for the pot, once for the soil, and once for the tree.
Bonsai apprentices in Japan, I am told spend as much as 2 years learning to water trees.
It is the single most important thing to keeping a tree alive.
So play it safe if you have doubts.
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