Hello Jim,
Thank you for your answer and your comments. And yes, I live in Mexico City, our climate is warm and rainy on summer. As a matter of fact, here we don’t have a large range of temperatures, mostly, differences are between rainy and dry seasons. So far, I h
ave been working with some of my trees for the last three years and with the same type of soil with no problem (or at least IMO). So, I will follow your advise and keep working and relaying on the people who has seemed to be successful so far.
Have a nice day,
Roberto
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From: Jim Lewis
To:
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Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:33 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.
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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.
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As someone else said there are zillions of soil recipes; those
recommended in books are the ones the authors use. We all tend,
sometimes, to be a bit dogmatic about how we each grow our trees.
ONE factor people must take into account when deciding which soil
to use for any given tree is your climate. The only part of
Mexico I'm at all familiar with that that part within 150 miles
of the Mexico-US border, but I'm assuming you're from the Mexico
City area -- or at least south of the border area.
In any even, your summertime climate probably is quite warm --
even hot. In THAT case, there may well be something to be said
for a bonsai soil with more actual "soil" in it. Otherwise your
trees would dry out within minutes of watering.
If I were you and if the bonsai people I knew are capable, I'd go
with what the local people do.
Jim Lewis -
jklewis@nettally.com - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.
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