Does your age dictate your repotting procedure?

Mike Corazzi

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This year I am repotting quite differently from other years. I am potting into much larger, more ventilated plastic pots. It may not be the most esthetic pot, but by damn, it's not gonna need repotting NEXT year!
Or....even maybe... a bit of leeway for whoever may get these things after I'm dead as my Scots pine. :oops:
 

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Move to growing by seed and seeing how small of bonsai you can create. As long as you can wiggle your finger, you will be able to lift ones in thimble sized pots. As long as you can still throw one down, you'll be able to lift the ones in shot glasses. If you are into tea, yunomi work nicely and will add impressive glaze/glaze-like colored surfaces.

Here's to ya Mike.

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Nope. I like what I have and am just .....simplifying.... the effort.
 

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A tree in a bonsai pot...doesn't mean it needs repotted every year. I've a handful needing done this year. If they drain...they are fine. Mine are in most deeper pots than some use. But bonsai pots none the less.
 

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I think we re-pot too often in many cases. I have junipers that haven’t been re-potted in over ten years. I repot if:
1. The soil no longer drains properly.
2. A style change requires it.
3. Root work is needed.
4. the tree outgrows the pot.
5. To move the tree to a better show pot.
6. My dogs or the wind knock the tree over and break the pot.
 

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The older I get, the more fully paid days off from work I receive. Making money doing bonsai, aint that a dream.

But I repot too often too.
 

Zach Smith

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At first I thought the title was, "Does you age dictate your potty procedure?" For sure. But on the bonsai front, I try not to have too many really big trees though that's really hard sometimes. Repotting them is no fun, so if I sell all the new arrivals I only have to rip 'em out of the tubs once and they don't go back in.
 

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Kinda the same yeah...when you're young it's pee tree tree tree tree tree pee.

Then it's pee tree pee tree pee tree.

Then pee tr...pee..tre...pee...tree...

Or the alcoholic, pee and tree at the same time!

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I’m not quite 40 and have only repotted when the stray cats I’ve been trapping have knocked trees down. Everything else is still growing most still in nursery dirt or the ground. I am not looking forward to it now since I like bigger trees!
 
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