fertilizing

For those that use Osmocote - When do you apply for fall/end of season growth? Do you apply it at all after summer? This is my first year utilizing it and trying to get an idea of when/if I should apply. Trying to wait till temps start consistently coming down, but also don’t want to apply too...

Hi all! I'm new to bonsai; been collecting yamadori from my property and nearby forest for a couple of years, plus a few nursery specimens. Very much a beginner, but I do know how to care for trees so I have a little bit of a leg up. But not much. This is my first post and I'm excited to talk...

At the moment almost all of my trees are Prebonsai in large containers so I can grow their trunks and branches as quickly as possible. How would fertilizing differ in this stage from refinement? Would I want a balanced fertilizer in both cases or would a different fertilizer ratio be better for...

This is the fish emulsion that I have been using for three or four years. It is mostly a mix of fresh water fish, and small crustaceans, all from the Amazon basin. It seems to be working very well, specially when alternating it with some kelp emulsion. What I like in it is the low NPK - which is...

I’m curious if any BNutters have tried experimenting or going from a once a week fertilizing routine, to an injector system, fertilizing with each watering. I recently picked up a fert injector system and a couple of my fellow club members were talking about how they fertilize with it on the...

Forgive me if this has been covered before. Please, could anyone help tell me what’s going on here (see pics)? About 4-5 days ago I noticed some of the leaves on one side had turned v dark (almost black). I initially thought it might be sun burn - Id left it out too long in the sun one...

I have been watching some bonsai people saying that the use of highly diluted chemical fertilizers every day - mixed with the water in a watering can - can give us better results than the same amount of fertilizer used in the regular dilution (as suggested by the label) every fortnight, for...

Hi all! I just repotted my cork bark jade for the first time today. I had grown it indoors for a good while but decided to transfer it outside about a week and a half ago. To my astonishment after two days the poor thing looked terrible and had dropped a bunch of petals. Some looked kinda...

I’ve done some searching on here can’t can’t seem to find the info I’m looking for... As I understand things, Tap water is the worst type of water to use for trees. A bunch of dissolved solids that can accumulate in soil and prevent the plant from absorbing nutrients. Distilled water is...

Well, it's a mix of Biogold, Hanagokoro and fish emulsion. Basacote, just a sprinkle. A lightly diluted kelp emulsion sprayed every month... And the Jaboticaba has to change clothes, as the old ones don't fit in its new fattened trunk. First image from three months ago, trunk images from today...

Hi All, I just potted up the nursery junipers that I've been fattening up for the past 3 years from regular soil to bonsai soil. And now I'm terrified that they'll die like my first attempt at bonsai many years ago. When I moved them I only trimmed the rootball so it would fit into the pots, I...

Hi there! I am completely new to the bonsai world, and DESPERATELY need immediate help. I was recently gifted an "8 year old satsuki azalea bonsai" that shipped from Connecticut. I live in Seattle where the weather is currently in the 60's, cool with some sunlight. I have my bonsai outside on...

Hi there! I am completely new to the bonsai world, and DESPERATELY need immediate help. I was recently gifted an "8 year old satsuki azalea bonsai" that shipped from Connecticut. I live in Seattle where the weather is currently in the 60's, cool with some sunlight. I have my bonsai outside on...

First post here... after almost a year of wondering why my jade tree (kept indoors) lost a bunch of foliage about a month after purchasing and why I haven't been able to get it full again. I recently purchased a bottle of Dyna-Gro Bonsai-Pro 7-9-5 liquid plant food, hoping that this will do the...

Fertilizer thieves to be more specific. I have been using organic fertilizer for several years, I think it works great when it hasn't gone missing. What can i do to keep things off of my fertilizer? I really don't want to switch to inorganic for several reasons( don't want to debate that here)...

Hi there! So I'm not sure if there's a forum for this, so sorry if I'm messing this up ... This is my first ever bonsai. My parents got it for me. It's an Acacia, though I'm not sure what type -- it has thorns and the bark of the trunk has an almost feathery texture - it's soft and if you...

I've been lax on this site lately, but not lax in the bonsai garden. I managed to kill half of my plants this summer, probably a good 25 plants, by fertilizing with Miracle-Gro in temperatures over 90 degrees. I got up late one saturday last july, and started fertilizing at 11 or so. The temp...