WHITEPINE

Hi all,

You're absolutely right Tim, you can't beat the old Tesco's Premium cat litter, I just hope they don't find out we're using it, or else they'll call it "Tesco's Premium Bonsai medium" and double the price!!!

This is the first year I've used it, and my trees have been growing like wildfire - especially my Trident. I swear its put on two years worth of growth this season. However, all the rain might have had something to do with that.

I'm becoming less worried about my beech now. I'm watching the situation very closely, but at the moment, the leaves don't seem to be getting any worse. The tree has put on some decent growth, and its throwing out new buds, which is encouraging, but having said that, my pine was sprouting new needles too - and look what happened to that. I only finished de-wiring it last week. I bought it wired from top to bottom, but I didn't realise that parts of the wiring was cutting in. I've stopped watering as much as I previouly did, and I will lift it out of its container if there is any more deterioration. On Gliders advice, I have also tilted the container.

It may be false optimism, but I feel in a much better positon now to deal with any emergences. I will try to post a couple of pics tomorrow.

Stephen