Emergency repotting elm pre bonsai from broken pot
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- The pot that my elm pre bonsai was growing in was damaged by winter freeze. So I'm performing an emergency repotting to move the elm pre bonsai from the broken pot.
When using Bonsai pots that were not properly built for outdoor use we may find a freeze cracked pot (or even more) on our bonsai benches. If we don't attend to this problem the cracks can extend to the point that pieces start to break off and now we have a bonsai that sits in a broken pot. And this is certainly something to avoid as without the protection of the pot, the soil looses water faster and the roots may get exposed directly to wind (and sun).
This winter I left an European elm (Ulmus laevis) in a papercrete pot out in the elements to test if it can take the winter freeze. By now you can already tell it didn't do too great. It had so many deep cracks that when I tried to pick up the pot it basically disintegrated. So I had to do an emergency repot to move my small European elm prebonsai to a safer pot even though it has already leafed out. The only thing left to decide was if a thorough repot can be performed or if slip potting is the only option. Since the roots have already started to grow I had to go with the slip pot option.
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We got to see your cat, I think the Elm will love the new pot!
Yes, at least some parts of the cat 🐱. I think she didn't know exactly where the camera was pointing.
I'm hoping it does well in the new pot and that it will grow strong this year.
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@@notbonsai671 Yes, the elm tree is probably throwing a house-warming party 😁
Nice young elm in a nicely colored and shaped pot. Nice upgrade my friend. 😎🍺🍺
Thanks! I also think the shape of the bowl is perfect for bonsai even if it's intended for kitchen use. I'm curious how it will do outside in the sun as plastic may degrade if it's not UV treated.
As to the upgrade, I guess anything could be considered an upgrade when moving from a broken pot. 😁
Nice Elm, it looks really healthy. 👌
Thank you J. It's doing pretty well health-wise but I'm probably going to have a hard time giving it a shape if it continues with the same growth pattern :).
That elm bonsai of yours after repotting and proper caring eventually will give you a nice outcome my dear friend as a support i watch your vlog fully cause im indeed interested as always to your explanations and tips as well. Take care my dear friend.
Thank you Cris! I will do my best to train it into a nice Bonsai. I can only hope that someday I can make a bonsai as nice as yours.
@@OddBonsai hello my dear friend good day to you, i have no doubt in mind that your elm bonsai in future become a beautiful mame because you have all the knowledge and skill to make that bonsai mame a master piece. Take care and Godbless my dear friend.
Very nice sharing sir👍👍👍🙏🙏
Thank you
Thank you my friend!
Very good my friend
Thank you very much! The tree is definitely happier.
So beautiful plant thanks for sharing
Thank you! I hope it will turn out to be a nice elm Bonsai.
Thanks for the tip on using mesh tape in place of screen mesh! Sometimes covering those excessive holes in plastic plant pots does give me a headache…
The big holes in pots are generally a good idea as they allow for good drainage. However, soil will run out of larger holes so maybe the stores selling the pots should also provide the drainage screens for the big holes.
Anyway, I'm glad you found the tip useful and hope it helps for future repots.
Elm .. so good bonsai material ..
So nice of you, but I think this little elm still has a lot to grow until it can become a bonsai.
Nice
Thank you!
I love this bonsai
Thanks! Glad you like it.
Papercrete, the pot was doomed as soon as you left it out in the cold hahaha
I was considering you keep that leader and remove the secondary shorter trunk and end up with a single trunk tree, so one stick in a pot haha
I was also a bit skeptical but what's interesting is that I left some other papercrete pots outside and they're fine. The difference is that some were considerably smaller while one big rectangular one had nothing planted in it. So I think the main cause for the pot failure was the lack of a reinforcement ring in the papercrete which made it break easily when the soil in the pot froze and expanded.
The elm is a mess, LOL. I have no vision for it as a bonsai yet. Thanks for the idea, it's very possible that I will end up keeping only one of the trunks.
@@OddBonsai I just thought that branch give that trunk good movement. More branches will grow on both trunks so I am sure options will present themselves next spring!
@@MaybeBonsai Oh, wait I may have misundetstood your first comment. Did you mean I shouldn't have removed the branch that I've cut in the video?
@@OddBonsai not shouldn't, as there is no set way to do things. I would have kept that branch and removed the second trunk but that doesn't mean it is the better or worse, just a different opinion that's all. This is the best part about bonsai or art in general, there is no wrong or right hahaha
I understand now. Well if I would have thought of removing the smaller trunk I may have kept that leader.
Lol, the current look of the Elm says a lot about my artistic sense. 🤪
Nice job and tree! What did you use for the concrete pot? You could ask someone who works with constructions if there is some "easy to find" element to add to your mix, in order to make concrete more resistant to the cold environments. Especially traditional architecture is full of those tricks.
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The pot was made from papercrete: shredded paper + cement to which I added a reddish brown pigment.
Papercrete has the advantage of being lighter than normal concrete but it appreas it is not suitable for exterior use.
As I see it there were several problems.The first is the lack of reinforcement (a simple iron wire circle on the top and bottom). This would have prevented cracks from pressure cased by the expanding frozen soil inside the pot. The second is that I think that using paper in the mix is bad since paper is a great water absorbant and this increases the chance of developing cracks.
@@OddBonsai you should create an internal armor to hold the cement and make it more resistant. You could add Marseille soap to the mix, it's a traditional method to make the concrete waterproof. But I don't know if it works with paper
Yes, if I try to make future pots I will definitely add some reinforcement.
It's the first time I've heard of the Marseille soap trick. I will read more on this. There are a lot of chemical additives for waterproofing cement which can be easily found in construction material stores.
@@OddBonsai yes, there are a lot of additives you can easily find. Marseilles soap has been used here in ancient buildings
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Im sorry for this, but paper doesnt belong in concrete because it is,sucking with water and expands by frost what leads to cracking
You are right. I did not think of this when I made the pot and there were no problems while I used it for indoor bonsai. I learned this the hard way but at least I won't be doing the same mistake in the future. Thanks!
@@OddBonsai I've made the same mistake,lol !so I knew it...
I mixed plaster into concrete and once Cocohum ...doesnt work😁😁😁🙈🙈🙈
@@thegreenmanalishiyamadori371 Wow, I wouldn't have thought of those mixtures. So what are you currently using as a mix? It seems that you have experimented a lot more than I did.
@@OddBonsai Well,I Use only Dyckerhoff "white" cement 1 on 1 with Quartzflour ...
For some uses I put Perlite into the outershell (Not inside-2 shells!!!)
Which is sandblasted later,so the Perlite will be blasted out a little to get wholes in the surface👍👍👍
I Mix also colours in the mass
You can use Fired claygrain as an ingredient also ...Greetz from Germany
Looks like you have quite an experience with making concrete bonsai pots.👍Thanks for the tips. Maybe you could do a video with the whole process of creating one.