Soil mix in South Florida

nsmar4211

You may also want to go check out your local bonsai club-broward county has a good one (some of the members are even members of mine down in Ft. Pierce). If you can get to Vero, Jim Smith's nursery sells turface very reasonably-$15 for a 40 lb bag (will last a while!).

I'm down in St. Lucie county, and use a mix of either turface and soil, turface and jungle growth, that aquatic stuff (basically turface) and cactus soil, or yard soil and cactus soil. My few plants in a peat based mix have all croaked due to too much water.... haven't lost one yet to too little water!

As for your plants, the ficus won't care if you repot now.... but some of the others might. Could you possible set up an overhang to keep the rain off and let them dry out? I've read about people making collars out of plastic (milk cartons and the like) and putting them over the pots surface to stop too much water. Basically it was a circle with a circle cut out of the inside for the trunk and a slit cut through one side so you could manuever it around the truk.... I've also read where people will take a chopstick, poke it down to the bottom of the pot, wiggle it in a circle in the soil to make a little hole, and put turface/aquatic soil stuff down the hole-so basically you're adding to the soil without disturbing too much of the rootball.
A few of my trees I put under the patio table to keep them from getting any more water myself......... Just be careful about repotting sensitive species... I'd try to find a way to dry those plants out first.

One thing I have done when one of my plants with no drainholes got over watered at a fair was to lay paper towels on the soil surface and keep replacing them until they weren't soaking up any more water.... I used quite a few though! I've also read of taking the whole plant out of the pot and wrapping the rootball in paper towels to absorb extra moisture and not disturb the roots.