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Hello earthlings, I have a question, that is quite odd, and please don't quote the question and say "yep, that is very odd". The question is do we need to give our trees all the fancy care we give them, say the watering rageems and the soil, or does every little help. I wonder if all we need to is leave them outside and let the rain do its job now and then. Can we just dig soil from the ground and use that, and neat it up a bit. In the end, all manner of trees have grown for many thousands of years with these basic requirements even the trees with pot like ditches in the ground, carved rock by wind and water. A little think for you or so least a small flash of thought.
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Only if they were planted in the ground. If they were not watered then they would very quickly die. As for the rest soil is what you make it
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Not really, many trees in London are planted in the ground, but paving surrounds it and pipes go under it, making a near pot environment. And they survive.
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You try to create circumstances that create miniturized growth. So you greatly limit the space that roots havem abnd allmost all the roots in the pot are active. This puts great strain on origen provision, water availability etc. The circumstances are greatly different.
it is a schale issue. A tree in a 70l container needs hardly any care (I have a large maple which I purchased earlier this year). Has been in my garden for 6 (?) months now. Have watered it once. Once this plant is finally trimmed, and moved into a bonsai container, it will need to have the soil replaced by coarse material and watered almost every day to survive. Miniturization, different soil processes.
it is a schale issue. A tree in a 70l container needs hardly any care (I have a large maple which I purchased earlier this year). Has been in my garden for 6 (?) months now. Have watered it once. Once this plant is finally trimmed, and moved into a bonsai container, it will need to have the soil replaced by coarse material and watered almost every day to survive. Miniturization, different soil processes.
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Agreed, I have some in large pots that don't need a lot of water. The species also effects it, Dawn Redwood or Wisteria or Willow need a different amount of water that a Japanese White Pine.
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I stand corrected, sorry for wasting your time, so would your meaning be that larger pots need less water and therefore care.
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Not wasting my time, but no, it still depends on the species, and the soil. Dawn Redwood needs a ot of water, also Wisteria but Maples do not. So as with all trees it has to be judges on a species basis, and in 名媛直播 pots on the size and depth of the pot.
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bob wrote: I stand corrected, sorry for wasting your time, so would your meaning be that larger pots need less water and therefore care.
I?d agree with this. For a specific individual plant, a larger pot requires less water and less care. Naturally, there is a flipside to the medal. Once the pot gets too large that a plant cannot really influence the water content, you run the rist of the plant drwoning in soggy soil..
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