Here is the second part of Holly & Lloyd’s “Big Repot”! In this series, both Holly & Lloyd have chosen a tree to demonstrate repotting bonsai including some challenges they face. Holly has been pruning bonsai since the minute she could walk! Even though she is only in her 20s, she has extensive bonsai knowledge. If you like these repotting series, please let us know and we will do some more! What pot colour do you think will go best with each? If you haven’t seen part 1 yet, click here.
Repotting a Fukien Tea Tree bonsai with Holly
@bonsaidirect Replying to @Bonsai Direct here’s Holly repotting her bonsai which is a flowering Fukien Tea Tree. Lloyd will follow on soon! #bonsai #bonsaidirect #trees #nature #bonsaitrees #bonsaitree #plants #plantlovers #smallbusiness #naturelovers #plantlife #homedecor #plantsforsale #fyp #plantsoftiktok #teatree #flowers ♬ Chill Vibe Music Box – Dreadie Dub
Holly: Hi everyone, I’m Holly from Bonsai Direct and this is part two of our big repot. Okay, let’s start with taking this out of the pot. It’s quite root bound so it’s going to take us a little while. I’m just going to start by gently lifting the roots out around the edges. So it’s now out of its pot. And unlike the Ficus, which my dad was, was the tree. My dad was doing the tea tree is a lot more delicate with the roots. So we’ve got to be a bit more careful here. So we want to try and expose the roots bottom here.
Holly: Okay. So what I’ve started to notice is that we do have a lot of big roots coming around here. So ideally this should have been done last year. But we’ve been a bit late getting to it. And now I wish I picked the Ficus that dad did. Okay, so the only thing we can really do here is start to have a look at these smaller roots. Pull, gently pull them loose. Try not to break any. I’m actually just going to cut it about here, there we go. Untangle this bit. Okay, so we finally got that big root out.
Holly: So before we now get to the potting . Just having a look around up here and we have quite a lot of straggly twigs sticking out. So let’s do a bit of pruning. Pruning scissors here. So what we’re looking for anything like this that’s just sticks out, it’s away from its branch and it doesn’t look nice.
Holly: I have started to notice that we do have a little bit of dead bit up here. Which is very, very normal. We just need to take that out. So I do have a very big knob cutters here, which we will try to get rid of this with. Okay, so that’s got rid of the main lump. I can’t remember how much we need to raise this tree up by.
Holly: So it looks good about there. So I can start tightening the where I won’t tighten it completely until we’re finished, but I can just gently hold it in place for now. Just to clean up the roots down here a little bit.
Holly: The good old toothbrush. I do, I promise you, this is a new toothbrush. It’s just the best way to get the roots cleaned up. Now a lot of people do like moss. That’s absolutely fine. I, I prefer to have some clean roots. But I do like moss as well. So that’s just personal preference. My dad would say he prefers the moss on roots. Probably why I prefer it without it.
Holly: I think that is it. Okay, thank you for watching. That was part two. And listen out for part three. Now it is definitely lunch time. My tummy is rumbling, so that is what I am doing next. Bye.
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