Bonsai Care
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This is by far the best tutorial you could find about repotting bonsai trees, "covering a lot of ground" on a range of use cases you might have to tackle when repotting.
One to watch. And if you think you know a thing or two on the subject, watch it still and let me know if it was worth your time.
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The more I read about Satsuki azalea, the more interesting it tends to become. I already was aware that, due to its different requirements in care taking, Satsuki is a very different branch in the bonsai growers industry, with its own rules and depth in quality appreciation.
Satsuki with its approx. 5000 variants is only one of the many cultivars of Azalea, 20 of which you can find in the azalea database by Mark Nijland.
To emphasize their beautiful bloom, rather than developing a more interesting bonsai shape, Satsuki tend to be grown into so called "flower towers".
My favourites though are in fact those well shaped -mostly as moyogi (informal upright) styled- ones, for their magestic foliage and bark colour combination, where the flowers come as a plus. After all, it only takes 30 years to style one.
Peter Warren, a reknowned UK based Satsuki bonsai specialist, stresses to choose well, for the flower tower variaties are not at all suited to be shaped into a "classical" bonsai style.
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Trees grow from extracting the carbon they find in the 0.04% CO² in our air. Not from the ground, not from the water they find in there. They break apart the carbon from the air and release the oxygen for us to breathe. The carbon is converted to glucose, then to cellulose and finally into wood itself.
That is why trees thrive in pots: they only need ground to anchor their roots and extract additional building blocks. This is why growing trees is such a slow process.
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I am not going to bore you with my personal views on bonsai pottery. So I keep it brief and point you to the references that are meaningful. This is by far the most insightful YouTube I watched about quality of clay and glaze to date:
https://youtu.be/KgsoSudK14Q?si=e_wFv5O3SuOzxpIQ
Are you contemplating to baking boinsai pots yourself? NaoTokutake, a reknowned American potter recommends digitalfire.com and you will figure it out.
If you have taken the time to widen your perspective on what is optimal, and you are living in Europe, then have a look at the quality and pricing of this Czechia's oldest and most reknowned source for bonsai gear. You might understand why this is my favourite source of oven baked bonsai pots.
(Hint: to view a pot in high resolution: RightClick -> "Open Image in New Tab".)
If you have a more refined taste, and you have a flavor for Europe's finest potters, why not have a look at https://europeanbonsaipottercollective.ecwid.com/ and source your bonsai pot directly from the artist.
There is more: a great resource courtesy of Angelica Ramirez https://www.arbonsaiart.com/european-potters.html
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