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bob wrote: Boiling= boil water and the calcium hydrogen carbonsate will become insoluable so you can just get tiny mesh...

Disstilation/condensation method= condensing the steam coming from the boiling kettle. But not worth it as you profits are less than the work you have to do for this method.

Just can't help yourself?

Anyway.. Did not say anything about boiling. The simplest setup would be a bucket with a lid on it, and a tray of water in it. Put it on the heater. With time the clean water will accumulate in the bucket, and the tray will empty. More effective woudld be using two contaiers, connected with a tube. Only put the source container on the heater.

Easiest is just to collect rain water.

leatherback wrote: Easiest is just to collect rain water.

Is this common practice for the enthusiast? I have a lot of seedlings and other plants and don't have the means or time to do most if these methods. I may have to think of an alternative... Have yet to repot, chickened out last night! Don't want to kill my tree!

Many people do. Also, if you water properly using a free-draining medium you normally do not have a lot of problems with salt buildup between repots.

I have 2 water barrels which I use when it is really dry. Most of the year the plants receive rain on a weekly basis and I have never had calcium buildups.

Have just finished repotting. The tree had such large, knarley roots that were very thick that it left little room for the soil so I decided to put it into a larger pot. One of the roots almost as thick as the trunk runs along the perimeter of the top of the pot. Left it well alone, for now... Transplanted what moss I could recover

I have to say, that looks like a good repotting job.

Ok so there are new leaves and buds coming through, a good sign? Am hoping the tree won't burn itself out before Spring. I haven't fed it...

Yeah, good sign.
Once you see the little buds resutling in clear elongated sprouts, you can add some fertiliser to the water. Plants get their energy fro msunlight, they need fertilizer to build proteins etc. So it can to amazingly long times without any fertilizer.

Hey guys, so the plucky little Elm has made a second come back but like the last time, it has gone mental with growth. It tends to grow so messily and rapidly that most of the new growth is in unaesthetic areas and so ultimately needs to go... My question is what do I do next? The tree has been cut back heavily once this year already and repotted only a few weeks back but left to it's own devices, it will look like an ugly bush. What do I do?

Question 2:

Is this vigorous and completely unpredictable growth the norm for Chinese Elm or do I just have a cheeky specimen?

Thanks in advance guys

i think you should leave it so the branches thicken, it is all very normal .

you need to decide which size you want first. then think of a future image and work from there. just telling you to clip or leave certain branches make no sense without deciding a direction, imho