Recent content by zanna5910

Can you elaborate on the shaded branch foliage comment? What am I looking for exactly

I've upped my fertilizer and have got much better growth. It's been so rainy this year though not sure if this is a good test year. I'm still learning

I built a bonsai bench to put in my backyard to put all my growing plants on. It is relatively close to the house, and the bench gets full sun from morning until about 1-2. I did it this way as I hear that you should protect against late afternoon sun here in south texas. Is this enough sun...

crazy, it took all the rains very well, its been super green for a while. Once the heat hit and I was manually watering, that's when I believe I started seeing the yellow. My guess is underwatered for the ficus, I will try to water twice a day and see what happens i guess. Maybe I need to...

It had been raining for like a month, so no watering for a while. Once it stopped I let it get a little dry then have been watering about once a day on average, sometimes twice when hot and skipped one day last week. Trying to water when the middle starts to get dry, not just the surface.

What is causing this? It has been all nice and green all season until just recently.

Thanks, scott. #1. I only considered it because its been pretty mild and I didn't think I was doing it right and need to improve and learn, I probably wont do it again unless absolutely necessary. #2. When I repotted the trident in the the "grow" dish I made, I basically bare rooted that...

Well, some updates. I pinched off the brown on the shimps and am fertilizing a bit more, no more recurring brown tips. It's been raining like crazy the last few weeks in Houston and the trident has some brown tips now, what is the culprit here?

Most of my stuff is in 6" grow pots in a mix of turface, pine bark, granite, shale, and some lava. It holds water well but I guess it will be alright. it stays moist naturally for over a day, but there isn't any standing water and lots of holes in the bottom for drainage, hopefully it's okay...

Here in Houston, it seems to have been raining off and on every day for about 2 weeks. As a newbie, I'm beginning to think its probably raining too much for my plants. Is this possible? Is there ever a time where it's rained enough and I should think about bringing the plants in under a cover...

Thanks Scott, haven't made it down there yet but I will have to check them out.

I've poked around the HBS website for bonsai nurseries around the Houston area, but there really is a lack of online information regarding these places in terms of websites, reviews, stock, etc. I'm new to bonsai as this is really my second season to play and am located on the north side of...

markyscott, where do you buy your soil components in houston?

Thanks kelly. I tested using a moisture meter (has scale 1-4 with 1 being dry). If I put it in freshly watered pot (where water freely drains out the bottom) a few inches in the pot it always comes back between 1 and 2. That night I checked again, same general measurement, maybe just lower...

I sifted some pumice thru a 2.5mm screen. Is there any use for what falls thru? Shohin or any other use? Should I just add it back together? How about turface that fell thru the screen (assuming removing the dust)?