Bonsai Mother Picture Thread

[Dr.Young]

Basically I just think about stress level..... Everything takes time to heal, make sure something is not in the healing process when you trim vegetation, or roots.

I make sure they are nice, and healthy green (nutrients are fine).
I make sure they have a matching amount of vegetation for its rootmass.

A tiny plant like the one in my picture isnt going to require a whole soda bottle (cut in half) worth of roots. So once I see it healed from the cuts, I will make the root mass match its vegetation amount...

You could use a party cup, and once the plant is big enough/roots big enough to pull up the dirt out of the cup by pulling on the plant stem. Then you could trim the roots down, and the leaves down to a amount that matches the amount of roots.

 

[thatonedude]

cut the rootball to the same size as the topside of the plant.

pull your rootball out of the pot. then use a knife (it doesn't matter what kind) to take slid=ces from the ball until its about the size of a golf ball. then fill ypur pot with new soil and treat it like any other transplant.

after that is done take some shrp pruning shears or whatever cutting utensil you have around and trim the topside down to a few branches eith at least one active node one each branch.

you want the top side to resemble the root side in size

 

[thatonedude]

I hpe mypu can read through my drunk

 

[thatonedude]

or just listen to what mr young has to say. he appears to be in a better condition than I to explain

 

[Dr.Young]

Yeah..
Cut it like cake..

Slice the bottom off the rootmass, then cut the sides into a cube.. like a inch or 2 off each side... Then you can basically just shake the dirt off the roots a bit, and then kinda wiggle it down into a pot full of dirt, and then once its settle'd in there you dump more dirt on top of her to make her sit well.


Lol... Maybe sober in a different aspect... Alcohol was never my thing lol. Either that or I drank soo much before 21 it was pointless at 21.
Cause I am surely pretty smashed right now crosseye'd as a mug

 

[thatonedude]

don't forget to water well after repotting, in a week they will need a light feeding and the whole process begins again

 

[thatonedude]

you should also give a good flush a day or two before repotting if using chem ferilizeres