Juan Luis Larroucau
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Hey there guys,
I'm new around here so I'll introduce myself first. My name is Juan Luis Larroucau, 30 years old and I live in Santiago Chile in an apartment. I'm an electronics engineer by profession, I have worked till now as an entrepreneur in technological things (4 of them didnt succeed, one is ok but I'm not involved anymore and the other I have a small share but don't work there actively anymore) and have many hobbies. I'm an amateur microscopist specialized in water life, history self learner specially Europe and Japan for now at least), sea sports fisherman (surf mainly), amateur car mechanic, language self learner (learning Japanese right now), religions amateur student, plants lover, outdoors guy (lived till I was 15 literally between the mountains), amateur computers programmer (C#, C, C++, Python, Bash scripting) and some other minor things.
In terms of Bonsai I'm fairly new and it has been an answer to my living in the city. I was too used to live surrounded by wild forests and I have never stopped missing it (I would exchange everything I have for a stable life there) and so bonsai is actually a very good way to keep myself close to them. I don't like too aggressive styling requiring too much power tool and things like that and well, as many people, I had the huge problem: No Akadama nor any of the JP imported goods in my country. I experimented a lot with soils and stuff, I'm a guy who reads a lot and well, I finally decided to make a short comparative study involving most of the soil alternatives I have around me to get clear on their characteristics and make my blends. While doing the study I thought it might be useful for more people so I decided to write it down for everybody and make a small semi scientific paper.
This study is by no means an attack to anybody, its just a comparative study between the soils I can buy here. I will be attaching here the PDF with the study I wrote for you guys and the Open Office Calc file with the data for you to play with it. I decided to upload it here since I have been reading this forum for a LONG time now and I think its the most serious, active and respectful forum I have seen (bonsai forum that is). Any critisism: good, bad, evil, destructive and constructive will be well received.
NOTE: As the Forum does not let you upload ocdt files, I had to change the extension of the Data.ocdt file to Data.ocdt.pdf, in order to view it u must change the name of the file to Data.ocdt
I'm new around here so I'll introduce myself first. My name is Juan Luis Larroucau, 30 years old and I live in Santiago Chile in an apartment. I'm an electronics engineer by profession, I have worked till now as an entrepreneur in technological things (4 of them didnt succeed, one is ok but I'm not involved anymore and the other I have a small share but don't work there actively anymore) and have many hobbies. I'm an amateur microscopist specialized in water life, history self learner specially Europe and Japan for now at least), sea sports fisherman (surf mainly), amateur car mechanic, language self learner (learning Japanese right now), religions amateur student, plants lover, outdoors guy (lived till I was 15 literally between the mountains), amateur computers programmer (C#, C, C++, Python, Bash scripting) and some other minor things.
In terms of Bonsai I'm fairly new and it has been an answer to my living in the city. I was too used to live surrounded by wild forests and I have never stopped missing it (I would exchange everything I have for a stable life there) and so bonsai is actually a very good way to keep myself close to them. I don't like too aggressive styling requiring too much power tool and things like that and well, as many people, I had the huge problem: No Akadama nor any of the JP imported goods in my country. I experimented a lot with soils and stuff, I'm a guy who reads a lot and well, I finally decided to make a short comparative study involving most of the soil alternatives I have around me to get clear on their characteristics and make my blends. While doing the study I thought it might be useful for more people so I decided to write it down for everybody and make a small semi scientific paper.
This study is by no means an attack to anybody, its just a comparative study between the soils I can buy here. I will be attaching here the PDF with the study I wrote for you guys and the Open Office Calc file with the data for you to play with it. I decided to upload it here since I have been reading this forum for a LONG time now and I think its the most serious, active and respectful forum I have seen (bonsai forum that is). Any critisism: good, bad, evil, destructive and constructive will be well received.
NOTE: As the Forum does not let you upload ocdt files, I had to change the extension of the Data.ocdt file to Data.ocdt.pdf, in order to view it u must change the name of the file to Data.ocdt