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spartanbonsai
Join Date: Dec-2006
Posts: 54
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About 8 years ago I got a really nice large beautiful schefflera bonsai from home depot(I know what u all are thinking) but it was one of their high end ones, was $68, and had great aerial roots. A few months later I noticed something white in the soil so I pulled it out of the pot and the soil was FULL of this white fungusey stuff. I thought it had some sort of bad fungal infection on the roots so I quickly put it to soak in a super strong daconil solution. Well the gorgeous tree promptly died, and it wasn't until years later that I realized the white stuff was likely mycorrhiza and had I let it be it probably would have been the healthiest, best nourished plant I had! I don't know how it got there though as I have heard this usually grows in association with pines.
-Michael
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