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Posted 2 years 4 months ago #74151

So maybe some substrate instead?

What do you mean with substrate?
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Posted 2 years 4 months ago #74154

There is absolutely no need for bonsai soil. Just use any free draining soil/substrate you can buy, or even just regular potting soil.

Tropfrog, I mean what lucR said.
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Posted 2 years 4 months ago #74159
Soil is a substrate. So not sure what you mean.
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Posted 2 years 4 months ago #74164
Sorry, I was thinking about something else.
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Posted 2 years 4 months ago #74165
I will probably end up buying some pumice.

www.amazon.ca/Stone-Pumice-Plants-Succul...ps%2C224&sr=8-5&th=1

Would this do?
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Posted 2 years 4 months ago #74170
Most bonsai artists around me us pumice to some degree in their mixes.
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Posted 2 years 4 months ago #74181
Here are some photos of the hawthorn, sorry for bad quality. There are small red buds already, getting ready for spring.
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Posted 2 years 4 months ago #74184

Here are some photos of the hawthorn, sorry for bad quality. There are small red buds already, getting ready for spring.

Do you guys think these are suitable for collection?
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Posted 2 years 4 months ago #74185
pro: old bark//con: long straight trunk, no movement, no lower branches ( but they can be grown if needed). Nebari is impossible to see so cant give comment on that. And as you say pics are really bad...
Knowing what i know now i wouldnt dig em up but when i just started i would probably have.
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Posted 2 years 4 months ago #74186
LucR Arn't these in orange not branches?

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Perhaps a very small bonsai, that needs to regrow all branches?
But before digging it out. Make a beter picture, remove the snow, and remove some of the soil around the base(nabari) of the tree, and show it here again.
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