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I have/had two bonsais, a Carmona and a Myrtle, and they were never extremely healthy, but after I had to go away for a month and leave them with a relative, that kind of finished them off. I keep both of them On a north facing windowsill (the myrtle had some time On a south facing one but then got sun scorched), and I water them about once a week at the moment (in summer every 1-3 days).
They are my first bonsais (Carmona first, Myrtle second) and I know I shouldn’t expect them to survive, only if there is anything I could do then I would definitely try to do it.

Yes, totally dead. But you still have the pots. So go to your local garden center and look for athum sale in the outdoor section. Buy some promising materials and start your successful bonsai journey growing locally hardy species outdoors. 名媛直播 is about creating, not purshasing mass produced trees designed?to be killed indoors.

If I bought a small Christmas tree to bonsaify, would a garden centre ordinary spruce do? Or would it die?

thanks in advance

Bonsify? Whats that? You can use a Spruce to create a bonsai, it will take some years to do of course and no you cannot keep it inside.

I like to work on the dwarf alberta spruce. Not the easiest to create bonsai from, but very cheap material to train on.

Spruces tends to spring back into its initial shape after removing wires. You need to?wire the soft branches?several times before they set, hence good for training.

what sort of soil would I need for a spruce?

I personally feel there is nothing wrong with buying mass produced trees. They are cheap. You just need trees suitable to thrive in your region. Species like carmona work well for me, but I would not buy certain species of pine.

My bad. I do agree it is nothing wrong in bying mass produced trees. All garden center material is mass produced after all.

What I ment is that there are so much more enjoyment in creating your own bonsai instead of buying a mass produced bonsai. Or mallsai as they are commonly called.?

Potato101 wrote: what sort of soil would I need for a spruce?

First of all. If you buy a garden center material now, the first repotting window is spring 2025. However I prefere to do the initial styling in the first spring and repotting earliest second spring. Which means spring 2026. That gives you quite some time to read up on bonsai soils and shose your first batch. After that you will most likelly adjust it every year to fit your preferences better.

But generally spruces is water loving trees. That means that a mix with more organics and smaller fraction inorganics than other trees may be suitable. If you shose to use clay based products a bigger portion of that would also make sense. Your climate and care scedule determines the exact mix. But join a bonsai club in your area and ask what the members use. They know best what suits your location.?

I couldn't find the Alberta Spruce anywhere, but instead I found some other coniferous thing,?Elwoods Gold, not sure if I can do much with it? But I shall give it a try, I must be able to do something with it. It had a mushroom but the mushroom is gone now?
how can I help mushrooms to come along?