California Bonsai Art II at Kyudo-En: Repotting....almost too late now?

Repotting for me starts in Nov. Some think that's too early but if you have a lot of trees like I do, you need that much time. I am winding down now and most of the trees have been repotted. Some of the big trees were repotted last year and will spend another year and get repotted next year. I have concentrated on my Shohin trees and have made sure that all that needed to be potted are finished. Lots of new Shohin material was taken from nursery cans and planted out in a show pot. Why? Because the tree will grow just as well in a show pot as it will in a nursery can. If I get a good canopy on the tree, and many of the trees I am talking about will be canopies, they will be ready to exhibit possibly this year. If development is slow, they can be taken out of the show pot and put back into a larger gro pot for further development.

The trunks on some of the nursery materials were so large that they are the ones in show pots. The nursery material that needed further development did not get up potted. The benches were cleaned and the water system has been upgraded. When I built the benches for the shohin, I drilled a hole in the facing walls about 16 inches apart for the drip system. Now I have put a tee on that tube at the wall and split each tube into two drippers. I doubled the bench for exhibiting the trees.

So, let's take a look at each side. First the East facing side. These trees highlighted here represent about ten percent of those repotted. These are just some of the better representations.

Then the west facing side.

This pair of Princess persimmon received new pots this go around. The one on the left is Ed Clark no. 322. The one on the right is regular Princess. I am told that the no. 322 is a reliable fruiter. We will see. The beautiful turquoise pot is by Garry Wood.