Dear Marty,
First of all, let me thank you for your time and interest. I guess you are right, it seems everybody has their own recipe about soils, but what it is important is exactly what you mention on your message –water requirements, drainage and root rot-. Theref
ore, I am going exactly what you recommend, keep using my soil and do some experimentation in order to get the best results possible for my trees.
Regards,
Roberto
----- Original Message -----
From: Marty
To:
BONSAI@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [IBC] composted pine bark
Roberto -
Talk to 100 people and you'll probably get 100 different soil mixes. It's
not the soil mix which is so important: it's how you water it, how you feed
it and how much light you give it. Garden soil usually has a high content
of organic material - which means that less water is required than with
inorganic mixes. It also means that, because there is less drainage, you
have to be carefull about root rot.
The important thing is to know is how to deal with the mix you have
available. This can best be accomplished by trial and error.
Marty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roberto Alday Delgadillo" <ivh@PRODIGY.NET.MX>
To: <BONSAI@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [IBC] composted pine bark
> Could you talk a little more about this? As I told the forum on a previous
message, I don't know why, but here in Mexico almost all the people who
works with Bonsais, USE SOIL (at least 70
, and of course, I am one of
them. Even more, on several books, authors recommend to use certain kind of
soils.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Roberto
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Lewis
> To: BONSAI@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 7:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [IBC] composted pine bark
>
> Usually the soils we use have absolutely NO nutritional
> value. They are, in fact, soil-less. We supply nutrients in
> other ways.
>
> Jim Lewis - jklewis@nettally.com - Tallahassee, FL - Bonsaiests
> are like genealogists: We know our roots!
>
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