Potting Soil,
Dirt, and all the other nouns that can tell us that this is the stuff
that we put into the Bonsai Pot to hold the Bonsai in place and to be
a holding agent for the necessary water and nutrients so necessary for
the health and well being of your Bonsai.
In this arena we have:
“Complete Potting Soil” which include
Akadama
Fujiyama Potting Medium
Kanuma
Additives or components to make a “complete
potting medium”
Calcined Clay
Grit
Peat Moss
Pine Bark
River Sands
Zeolite
And then we have a selection of items that
are normally used as a decoration by themselves or sprinkled on top
of a Bonsai soil area to cover over whatever you feel that is less
pretty called Top Dressings
Now to make it a little more complicated you
can also use some of the above items interchangeably from one category
to the next. Like using Akadama as a top dressing over the Fujiyama
Potting Medium. It looks great!
Within
each category we will explain in detail the reasons you use this or
that. As a beginner/novice/just new to the hobby, you should pick
a complete potting medium such as Fujiyama Potting Medium. It’s
like going to the grocery store and buying a “store bought”
cake. It’s complete and finished and until you get your hands
dirty in making your own recipe of soil components like peat moss,
pine bark and Calcined clay this is the best first avenue of approach.
For those with some experience,
try different amounts of each ingredient to formulate your desired
potting soil.
It's important to remember that Bonsai potting soil has an entirely
different texture than does store bought potting soil.
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