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Bonsai Doer
Join Date: Aug-2001
Location: Fresno, CA
Country: USA
Posts: 5,452
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The tale of the pot and the soil
In many postings lately I have mentioned that I spend this down time in the fall and winter collecting all the materials I will need for the projects to come in spring. At this time I have begun to realize that I have no pot for the huge Cal. juniper I plan on styling this spring. The local bonsai mongor let me know that he was out of soil. You see.. I manufacture and prebag bonsai soil for his nursery. I make a little on the side and it keeps me in magazines and cutpaste.
I started out by making up about 50 bags of soil. I took them to the nursery and started to look for the pot that I would need to plant the juniper in this spring.
A little about the soil. The soil starts out as red lava, turface, sand and redwood humas. The humas is a little "hot" for bonsai soil, but it leaches out fast due to the fast drainage. The soil is bagged and I sit there and staple all the bags closed and put on the label. Its time consuming, but what else do I have to do. You can only argue on this forum for so long and you need a break.
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