Wires_Guy_wires
Imperial Masterpiece
You go to a hair dresser to have others fix that dead beaver on your cranium.
You use a lawnmower to mow a lawn.
Leaving things to the professional(s) equipment is always best.
Pause.
I wanted to get a mail-order brid.. ehrm.. Japanese black pine into bonsai soil and out of the potting soil. It was way past repotting season and.. Well I figured I was going to kill it before fall if the roots weren't freed from that clump of potting soil. I was pretty sure about it even.
Slip pot into inorganics then! I did that, but I felt it wasn't enough. A brick of potting soil surrounded by clay pellets is not much better than the brick in a pot.
And why should I insult a pine when I can let others do it for me, like how I get a haircut by a professional barber, and like how I don't clip every blade of grass with a scissor but use equipment for it.
I went to the local fish bait shop, bought a bag of worms for a euro and released them in the slippotted jbp container, placed it up high and now, two weeks later, the roots have been worked without me laying a finger on them.
Idea behind this: worms dont like inorganics, they keep cycling through the potting soil, opening it up and digesting it. Excrement can be washed out. Root integrity will stay intact since these worms don't eat undamaged live tissue. When all the soil has been evenly spread (and myc. And bacteria too), the worms will eventually die or wiggle out of the pot. They run out of food.
Every watering I'm losing a tablespoon of potting soil. In between watering, the worms help me by using the holes of the pot as a toilet. That's 5 tablespoons per 3 days.
Creative solutions, I love them.
Out of season root work? What root work? What season? I didn't do nothing, I swear!
Keep in mind though: the plant is holding on to nothing now, better wire it to the pot.
Maggots could work too, but then you'd be dealing with a lot of flies later.
To get all the worms out, just tap the rim of the pot exactly 100 times, they will respond as they do with moles; come up to the surface and make a run for it. This is a fun 'magic trick' if you have kids as well.
You use a lawnmower to mow a lawn.
Leaving things to the professional(s) equipment is always best.
Pause.
I wanted to get a mail-order brid.. ehrm.. Japanese black pine into bonsai soil and out of the potting soil. It was way past repotting season and.. Well I figured I was going to kill it before fall if the roots weren't freed from that clump of potting soil. I was pretty sure about it even.
Slip pot into inorganics then! I did that, but I felt it wasn't enough. A brick of potting soil surrounded by clay pellets is not much better than the brick in a pot.
And why should I insult a pine when I can let others do it for me, like how I get a haircut by a professional barber, and like how I don't clip every blade of grass with a scissor but use equipment for it.
I went to the local fish bait shop, bought a bag of worms for a euro and released them in the slippotted jbp container, placed it up high and now, two weeks later, the roots have been worked without me laying a finger on them.
Idea behind this: worms dont like inorganics, they keep cycling through the potting soil, opening it up and digesting it. Excrement can be washed out. Root integrity will stay intact since these worms don't eat undamaged live tissue. When all the soil has been evenly spread (and myc. And bacteria too), the worms will eventually die or wiggle out of the pot. They run out of food.
Every watering I'm losing a tablespoon of potting soil. In between watering, the worms help me by using the holes of the pot as a toilet. That's 5 tablespoons per 3 days.
Creative solutions, I love them.
Out of season root work? What root work? What season? I didn't do nothing, I swear!
Keep in mind though: the plant is holding on to nothing now, better wire it to the pot.
Maggots could work too, but then you'd be dealing with a lot of flies later.
To get all the worms out, just tap the rim of the pot exactly 100 times, they will respond as they do with moles; come up to the surface and make a run for it. This is a fun 'magic trick' if you have kids as well.