You may need to repot your bonsai for many reasons. Firstly, your current pot may have broken or is looking a bit worse for wear. Secondly, you may just want to freshen up your bonsai’ aesthetics and a new colour pot will bring a pop of colour into your space. However, the most common reasons for repotting are due to bonsai becoming pot bound or outgrowing their pot. Whatever the reason may be, our repotting kits include everything you need to repot your bonsai. Holly has created a video demonstrating how to repot your bonsai, utilising the kit.
Repot your bonsai with Holly
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“Hi, I’m Holly from Bonsai Direct, and in this video I’m going to show you one of our repotting kits and show you how to repot your bonsai into this pot.”
“We have a big range of bonsai pots on our website, so you would definitely find one that fits. I am going to show you what comes in your bonsai kit so you should have everything you need. Comes with a bag of soil, some wire to tie your bonsai in nicely. Some bonsai mesh, for the holes. A chopstick and a repotting guide.”
“So I’m going to start by taking the bonsai carefully out of its pot. I’m going to use the chopstick to take off some of the soil around the edges. So you start to see the roots becoming looser. Make sure you do underneath as well. When you tease around the bottom of the trunk you may actually find some more roots. Now these are really nice, and later on we’ll use toothbrush and try and expose them a little bit more. So once you’ve teased out around the edges and underneath, you can cut any really long straggly bits off.”
“And then we get to the pot. “
“So with your bonsai wire put these up through the bottom of the holes. The two pieces mesh. Like so. This will stop any soil from coming out the bottom of the holes. Open your bag of soil. Just put a little layer on the bottom so the roots underneath and grow. You may need a little bit more underneath. It depends on how thick your root ball is. Now to tighten the wire. Ideally you want the top of the tree to stand upright with the trunk central. Now use your chopstick to work into the soil around the root. Starting to look better now. So our tree is starting to feel quite tight in the pot now. You may just want to get some scissors to cut the wire down. I’m going to use a bit more soil to top dress it now. If you want you can then get hold of the trunk and give any roots you have found a little bit of a scrub. And there we go. Bonsai repotted into its lovely new pot.”
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