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Join Date: Jan-2004
Location: Ottawa, KS
Country: USA
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Originally Posted by CScott
I use akadama fines, and dress with moss sparingly.
At our last club meeting we were shown how to use a handful of walnut meats to rub a nice sheen onto pots before a show. A lot cheaper than a bottle of walnut oil.
My club's show is next week. I am taking digital photos of trees for the show, than reviewing them on the computer to see any areas of foliage that need to be tweaked, or branches lightly wired. Problems areas really pop out.
I use a dental pick and tweezers to clean around the nebari and tight crotches of branches where dead stuff accumulates.
My husband decided he wanted to get interested in bonsai again, specifically the azaleas. He bud pruned and now there is one flower on the azalea I was thinking of showing this year. Sigh.
Carmen
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I mentioned the walnuts in my article,
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Just before the show, a soft brush should be used to clean dirt off the pot. Then the pot should be rubbed with walnut oil or canola oil, taking care not to make the pot too shiny. An easy way to apply this is to place walnut meats in the end of an old sock, tape the toe closed, then smash your nut sock with a hammer until it's all squishy. The oils will seep through, giving you a good applicator. After rubbing the pot with the oil, rub it again with a clean cloth to remove excess oil. Fingerprints should not show if the pot is touched.
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