42 Mice
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Re: 42 Mice
Thanks for the visuals is your tray metal (galvanized/tin?) and is the gravel just nice round stones, or is it that fired clay balls used for hydro?
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Re: 42 Mice
You could use anything to make the tray but mine is made from Alucobond.
Gravel is 10mm bluemetal and 6mm peagravel.
This is Melaleuca acerosa , starting stages. 42 Mice pot.
Gravel is 10mm bluemetal and 6mm peagravel.
This is Melaleuca acerosa , starting stages. 42 Mice pot.
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Re: 42 Mice
thanks Craig, funny how the small pot sizes makes the gravel look deceptively big, the 10mm blue metal looks like chunks of slate should be a life saver in summer though
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Re: 42 Mice
Yup. Keeping moisture at the base of the pot is very effective.cre8ivbonsai wrote:should be a life saver in summer though
Bonsai Tonight also removes topmost layer of soil and adds spagnum moss. I'd need to add some pepper gravel over that.
Last summer I successfully used little denim mats (or collars, over the surface of the pots) which keep the sun off the soil.
I'm contemplating a full blown Coolgardie Safe for the little'uns this summer.
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Re: 42 Mice
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Very nice combination David.DavidWilloughby wrote:It's not a native, but it is in a 42 Mice pot.
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Re: 42 Mice
My very first bonsai was one I bought in Japan...like the small pot with the coin, Japanese maple...Lasted less than week...So I am scared I will kill them...Maybe to use a succulent that dont dry so easy.
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Re: 42 Mice
Thanks Pup, I appreciate the kind words. The pot itself has more meaning than any other in my collection, it comes from my first ever friend in Bonsai whom I befriend over 15 years ago and it was only recently we caught up. Amazing what an innocent comment on facebook can do lolPup wrote:Very nice combination David.DavidWilloughby wrote:It's not a native, but it is in a 42 Mice pot.
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Re: 42 Mice
A couple more pots from old mate Mice.
*PJF recently defoliated
*Mini PJF
*Mini Privet
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*PJF recently defoliated
*Mini PJF
*Mini Privet
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Re: 42 Mice
Like the first one, the last 2 need some more development
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I've procured an Ikea "Socker" greenhouse which should keep the wind out and the humidity in. Clearly it will be in full shade (and probably inside in really hot weather)thoglette wrote:I'm contemplating a full blown Coolgardie Safe for the little'uns this summer.
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Re: 42 Mice
Thanks Ken, I agree the last two do need alot of development although with the little fig in the 2nd pic, it was in this grow tub for a year.....kcpoole wrote:Like the first one, the last 2 need some more development
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but yes it does need to grow some branches (I will cop it from Mice over that lol)
and here is another Mice pot I forgot to post up before
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Re: 42 Mice
Geez....Look at the size of those things...I hope you guys are bending with your knees and not your backs when you lift them up...
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Re: 42 Mice
Nice little Literati Juni
I have one on my bench too that I will pot up soon.
I also have a matching Cascade and Twisted Upright too
Have to start looking for some more small pots for them
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I have one on my bench too that I will pot up soon.
I also have a matching Cascade and Twisted Upright too
Have to start looking for some more small pots for them
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Re: 42 Mice
Ok i have to ask, do you work on these trees with a microscope and tweezers? I mean i could not even imagine trying to repot one of these
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