jaycraig
Yamadori
so i just got this trident maple and shimpaku juniper in the mail on friday ( picture below). i wanted to pot them up in 5mm - 6mm perlite but all i had was a fine 1mm-3mm perlite which i bought on accident. so i decided to not wait till i get the bigger grade perlite and pop my repot cherry and use the akadama and lava rock mix i had saved for actual bonsai projects and repotted them today. the thing that kinda concerns me is the trident maple seemed to be an air layer from the mother tree so the root area is rather long and i had a struggle repotting it without any setbacks. i wash 90% of the native soil off and cut maybe an inch off the feeder roots at the bottom to better fit it in my 5 gallon pot, but the thing is there was one root that was exposed so i put a small patch of sphagnum moss on that root to protect. (picture below)
my questions are will the trees but affected in anyway being outside with little to no protection? we just had a snow storm yesterday and its about 17 degrees fahrenheit atm.
how many sunlight do they need?
is it possible to shorten the trunk ( tap root now ig) area that have roots connected to it witHout harming the tree too much or whats a good time to do that?
how sooner can they be repotted again? ik i might take so time but not sure of the waiting period
and what fertilizers are best to beef them up?
my questions are will the trees but affected in anyway being outside with little to no protection? we just had a snow storm yesterday and its about 17 degrees fahrenheit atm.
how many sunlight do they need?
is it possible to shorten the trunk ( tap root now ig) area that have roots connected to it witHout harming the tree too much or whats a good time to do that?
how sooner can they be repotted again? ik i might take so time but not sure of the waiting period
and what fertilizers are best to beef them up?