Trees styling development seems "by the rules traditional" has idea of Literati gone out of the window?
Lava is fine, it was just unsieved. Although it seemed to work fine in LA where there’s only 15” of rainfall each year, in Houston, we generally get over 80” and can have long stretches where it rains every day. It just stays soaking wet all the time under those conditions. I generally use a mix of lava, pumice and akadama in equal proportions, seived to remove anything smaller than 1/4” and anything larger than a bit over 3/8”. I put extra pumice in with these - I’d guess it’s more like 50% pumice and 25% each lava and akadama.
@markyscott How's it looking now? I really like this tree.
