White Fur on Soil / Pot Size. Help Please
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Posted 4 years 7 months ago #60067
As long as they get direct/unfiltered sunlight they will be ok. Clouds are not a problem, glass is (you can’t get sunburned behind glass..)
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Posted 4 years 7 months ago #60071
10° or 15° seems chilly to you and me, but we are warm blooded mammals. Trees evolved there in that environment and they will do just fine. Outside might be an issue in the dead of winter, bit not so much from cold as from wind. You might want to get them out of the wind in October.
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Posted 4 years 7 months ago #60115
Thanks for the information. Would you have any idea what I can keep the plants inside? Like a clear ventilated box with a removable lid purely for rainy days. Would that be a good idea? I would remove the lead on clear days so they can get direct sunlight. This way I could always keep them outside and prevent mold.
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Posted 4 years 7 months ago #60117
The best thing to do is find somebody locally who has trees kept alive in the winter for a couple of years, and see what they do. Honest.
What I will say and what others will say is weighted heavily towards our local climate. Here, "winter" means the third and sometimes fourth week in January. And, sometimes, two or days in April. A friend visiting from North Bay, Ontario, laughs when we say winter. In our January winter the most I do is take the trees off the stands and put them on the ground. A guy in Rochester, NY, carries them all inside a garage in October and brings them out in March, with the temperature controlled to 27F, for five months. My worries about wind are from tornado force winds, and again I put them on the ground (and hope the house doesn't fall on them). Other places a constant drying wind all winter will kill them dead as a toothpick.
If you can't find fellow bonsai people, research the web, see what people say they do in the winter, figure out whose winter is similar to yours, and act accordingly. You have all summer, so that should not be too hard.
One thing to remember - they aren't warm blooded mammals, so your discomfort is not theirs.
What I will say and what others will say is weighted heavily towards our local climate. Here, "winter" means the third and sometimes fourth week in January. And, sometimes, two or days in April. A friend visiting from North Bay, Ontario, laughs when we say winter. In our January winter the most I do is take the trees off the stands and put them on the ground. A guy in Rochester, NY, carries them all inside a garage in October and brings them out in March, with the temperature controlled to 27F, for five months. My worries about wind are from tornado force winds, and again I put them on the ground (and hope the house doesn't fall on them). Other places a constant drying wind all winter will kill them dead as a toothpick.
If you can't find fellow bonsai people, research the web, see what people say they do in the winter, figure out whose winter is similar to yours, and act accordingly. You have all summer, so that should not be too hard.
One thing to remember - they aren't warm blooded mammals, so your discomfort is not theirs.
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