Phillip C
Yamadori
As I have mentioned, I am just coming to Bonsai having started last spring. My pride and joy is a 4 foot Bald Cypress, but I also have a nursery pot trident maple about three Honoki Cypress., two different kinds of Juniper, Chinese Elm and a couple of European olives, and oh yea, one Ficus Regosa(sp). The Ficus has moved in for the winter and vying for light with my wife's orchids. The rest of my trees are still growing on shelves on our small deck/patio. I live in an apartment complex, so healing them in is not an option, although on night when it is to be particularly cold I can place them against the side of the apartment. I have a southern exposure so they should warm up with the day, provided the day warms up. I live in Atlanta, Zone 7a or 7b, right on the border between the two. Winter night time temps can go as low as 5 degrees, but that is not common. Most of the winter the coldest is when it drop into the low 20's for the night.
Having said all that and raised several questions I didn't intend to, i am curious as to the watering schedule for the cold weather. In the summer fall I watered religiously once a day, occasionally twice daily. The plants with more organic soil do not seem to drying as quickly as the ones with a more course mixture of lava rock, pumice and some very small pine bark.
In general, what does cooler weather mean for watering and particularly what does it mean for the more organic mixed soils like I have my Bald Cypress in. I have read that you do not water in advance of known cold weather coming so as not to freeze the roots. But today, in Atlanta it is 56 degrees in the sun and isn't supposed to go down but to about 45 degrees or so.
i am sure this has been covered in other posts before and I apologize for asking again. i have done some fairly extensive reading of the past posts, but missed this information.
Thank you for any and all input y'all have as I think I should or could water less, but am afraid of my plants drying out. Again, thanks again for any input. Even pointing me to a thread that already covers this topic will be fine. Thanks Phillip C
Having said all that and raised several questions I didn't intend to, i am curious as to the watering schedule for the cold weather. In the summer fall I watered religiously once a day, occasionally twice daily. The plants with more organic soil do not seem to drying as quickly as the ones with a more course mixture of lava rock, pumice and some very small pine bark.
In general, what does cooler weather mean for watering and particularly what does it mean for the more organic mixed soils like I have my Bald Cypress in. I have read that you do not water in advance of known cold weather coming so as not to freeze the roots. But today, in Atlanta it is 56 degrees in the sun and isn't supposed to go down but to about 45 degrees or so.
i am sure this has been covered in other posts before and I apologize for asking again. i have done some fairly extensive reading of the past posts, but missed this information.
Thank you for any and all input y'all have as I think I should or could water less, but am afraid of my plants drying out. Again, thanks again for any input. Even pointing me to a thread that already covers this topic will be fine. Thanks Phillip C