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Bonsai Doer
Join Date: Aug-2001
Location: Fresno, CA
Country: USA
Posts: 5,466
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I brought an assortment of large containers to plant the tree in. I decided on the fifteen gallon squat nursery can. I use a mixture of pure sand and 3/8 lava as a rooting medium. I have found that all the plants I have dug from the mountains or urban areas, ( California juniper, juniper, maples, pyracantha and myrtle) have responed well to pure sand. The roots that develop in this medium are fine and healthy.
One photo is at the digging site and the other is at home with the new myrtle along side its sister tree. It might be noted that the branches that I pruned of the new tree are longer than the branches I pruned off the first tree. I decided that I might try to carve the stubs on this tree and add some detail of harsher living and just see what that may look like. I can always cut it off flush later if I don't like it.
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I been kidding the last seven years.
no.... really!
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