Outdoor bonsai?
- norden
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I live in an apartment with central heating but I have a lot of light and large windows . Does it make sense to test at all . Or should be limited to indoor bonsai ?
Many thanks for your help!
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You can try but it would be best if you could put the pines or junipers outside. They were meant to be outside originally by nature. Things like insects and other things, they live together with plants. Good luck growing your pine indoors if you try, but as i said, they would do best outside and not inside (practically die).
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- m5eaygeoff
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Try a Bouganvillea, or Pomegramate, or similar.
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- m5eaygeoff
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e dishes should not just have water, It needs gravel or sand in and this is kept wet. I have just brought my Bouganvillea in as it is getting colder and I want to keep the leavesbob wrote: Pomegranite and bougainvilla are supurb suggestions. To help make it more humid try placing dishes of water around your windowsill.
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They are designed purely for one reason, and for one reason only – to prevent water drips staining your valuable furniture. Simple really."
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Say that in winter your house has a relative humidity of 40%, a point at which you roughly start drawing electrostatic shocks. Say you want to raise this to a level of 80%, a level you can expect in moist tropics. From the graph at you can then read that, at 20 degrees celcius (room temperature) you need to increase the amount of water in the air with almost 6 grammes of water for each cubic metre of air. For a room of 5*4 metres that would result in 5*4*2 = 40 cubic metres, times 6ml = 240ml. So you would need half a pint of water extra in the air. Just for the room.
Now take the whole house, as the rooms exchanges air with the rest of the house, you would easily have 6 times the volume. So you would need to add 3 pints of water into the air. And that not once.. but several times a day, as air in your house is continuously replced (Houses are not airtight (Otherwise you would suffocate in your home!)
SSo.. If you can evaporate a bucket of water every day, it make sa difference. A tiny layer in a tray.. Does not..
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i don't need a roomful of humid air. i just need half a room size (2#3#3) so i just put about five medium shallow-ish dishes of water on my wndowsill and it raises my humidity to about 60-70% (originally being 50 %). it does make a difference, because all i need is that little extra up in humidity.
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