Hello bonsai enthusiasts wherever you are. I join you intended to share experience and knowledge of bonsai plants. My personal experience I will become a kind of plant for bonsai, because every crop has its own nature and character. First here I want to tell my experience about the types of Loa (ficus glomerata). The first is discussed Loa Loa varigata, with characteristic pale yellow leaves and green stripes (photo coming soon), a common disorder of the Loa who leaves only the color green.
This Varigata Loa bonsai material I choose. I drove the car with my employees to show the road. When he arrived home sellers bonsai, I see there are dozens of small bonsai and Mame. Among them there are some trees have become a great bonsai, while others are still a few trees and semi-finished material. Later we were invited to go see the garden contained materials planted in bonsai and in polybags. There was derived from seeds, setekan, slips and hunted from the wild.
Dikebun I see there is a flowering tree that Varigata Kaliandar scarlet flowers clustered like bungur, and I am interested in buying them. But unfortunately you will not sell it with the reason as being the dry season, so it will die when dug from the ground. I was surprised because this tree has reached two meters high and have many children. Why is this man not separate the child and planted them in pots or poly bags for sale. I think this tree actually good, because it has yellow and green striped leaves, in contrast combined with a striking dark red flowers, I have never found it ornamental plant market. It attracted the attention and I think certainly a lot of people who want to buy it.
When you're talking, this man said to have varigata Loa, but the growth can not be fertile. Very interesting to hear these things I was curious to want to know this tree varigata Loa. Indeed I am happy to collect rare trees, all the more rare types that can be made bonsai. I look towards him who show such Loa tree, planted in polybags and media, only rice husks alone, placed in the middle of the trees that are higher than this loa, and therefore may be incomplete because penyiramannya tall trees blocked it. Sunlight was just hit no more than one hour, and that varigatanya only the top section just three branches of trees only. While the bottom of the green twigs of trees many of which are not discarded, so that varigatanya defeated by the original, so I guess its cause could not be infertile is because the factors described above.
After I bought and taken home to home, I immediately re-potting with using the media as follows: first the loose soil bg bg + 2 + 1 bg humus lava sand. Prior to this mixed media inserted into the pot, put pot basic pieces to cover the hole mosquito ram based pot. Above the ram given coarse sand size - + 2-3mm cover ram mosquitoes, given the coarse sand layer above the sand size - + 1 mm, given a coat of grease on it again ripe goat with rice husk with a mixture ratio of 1:1. Finally after a throw from the base of the trunk all the branches of green leaves, and the entire leaf including leaf varigatanya, Loa was removed from the poly bag and scraped the soil lumps. Then cut out and discard the roots and root-me tunjang greatness, this new varigata loa ditanamlah with the above mixture into the pot of media who have provided it. Once planted and watered wrong, put in the shade. Then to come out new shoots, placed in a place the sun in the morning approximately two hours. After varigatanya leaves out a lot, a new full-dried, and then shoots out green leaves immediately discarded.
The results after six months, these trees become fertile and I began to shape it with style slenting. Until now after less than two years with the care and attention, 80% become qualified bonsai. I will take care of it to perfection, with the aim of the road show matched natinya for bonsai.
But one day bonsai enthusiasts from outside Indonesia have come to our place to see bonsai. And this gentleman became so fascinated when I saw this bonsai varigata Loa, which insisted on buying it. Because I had never experienced conditions like this bonsai enthusiasts father, so I understand the feeling of what if the things we want to have a hobby, let alone a good and rare stuff. By forcing who handed the money in my opinion quite well, and also because I already have a son who obtained from the grafts where the latter I was still able to make a bonsai type this again, I finally let go of this bonsai as well (I even felt proud of my own bonsai work of someone who enjoy it).
So my experience, how meripotting and planting bonsai going so well, which turned out to be fertile with the media that I created specifically for tree Loa who love this water. Hopefully my experience this can be useful for my friends bonsai devotee. Thank you for your attention and goodbye in the next blog, where I'll tell you my experience of how to plant and care for Black Pine trees (mainly pine species)
