How to collect, prepare and apply moss to your bonsai Moss for Bonsai
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2020
- I collected two bucket loads of moss to use on my bonsai. It’s been a very windy spring in Melbourne and my trees have been drying out too quickly. The moss layer will now add protection to the drying out winds as well as looking good too.
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As a starter in bonsai, love to watch your movies. Learn a lot!
I like moss very much and I understand the Japanese symbolism of it. Thank you for your video!
Love your work David 👍
Very usefull...thanks for sharing😍
I very like moss 👍👍👍
I'm in Victoria too, is there any type of moss that isn't ok? Thanks!
Glad to hear the club might be able to put on a show next year. What a year 2020 has been!
You can use all moss it’s just that some look better than others. Sometime the thick furry type moss doesn’t look right or survive well on bonsai.
Hopefully next year allows large indoor gatherings and I’m sure we will put on our show again.
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Awesome , thank you!
Great video David... I don’t know if you notice when your doing the editing but the debris left on your turntable or work surface gets picked up by the microphone really well, and I know for me it’s a ‘nails on chalkboard’ kind of sound. I’m sorry to sound like a nag but, I love your videos but that is really difficult for me. Keep going, loving the growth and new name 😊
Thanks for letting me know. I’ll give it a clean.
Great advice Sarah. Detracts from a really good video.
David I was wondering. Do you have a method to preserve collected moss. I live in a rural area and the birds are always a problem. They have pulled trees out to get to moss. I have tried wet newspaper putting them under benches so they get run off. I have even been told of spagham moss and moss grinded together and kept till you need it. Any tips?
My biggest issue too. Very annoying. I found any tree up high on benches are left alone. Anything low to the ground they attack. If the trees are spaced out then I found they attack those less. If the trees with moss are closely group it like a kid in the candy shop. I’ve tried to leave a couple of trays of unused moss for them to play in but hasn’t helped too much. Spacing the trees out and have them high off the ground seemed to work somewhat.
David where do you generally collect your moss from? I'm from Sydney so I don't mean the actual location but more the type of location that would be best to look.
I have an old abandon industrial site near me that has been bulldozed years ago. Nothing has happened on the site for many years and it has lots of concrete foundations still left. Water pools on concrete and over the years dirt etc build up and moss just grows.
The other goos spot are laneways. They get a lot of shade and grow nice clumps of Moss.
Great. Follow up question.. If you're covering most or all of the top surface with moss where or how do you fertilise? On top of the moss won't let the nutrients into the roots will it?
@@jarrenp6396 I just use liquid fertiliser and pour enough on so that it gets through to the roots. It’s that same with watering I guess, water enough for the roots to be wet.
How long does the moss usually last, is this an annual routine or how often do you apply, really informative videos much Appreciated.
If the birds don't pick them off, they should last as long as the tree
Hi Jason, it usually last til next season repotting when I have to take it all off to repot. The key is to make sure it doesn’t dry and die off in summer. You have to keep the watering up.
@@Bonsaiworx Thanks for the reply, indeed that has been the issue for me with the summer heat drying the moss out, I'm located in South Africa the climate is apparently similar to that of Australia so pretty hot and dry.
I do have sprinklers in summer but the key is getting the moss to establish itself in the pot and soil before the heat hits.
David my Magpies and Blackbirds would love your garden all that lovely moss to be thrown on the floor whilst searching for bugs. 😂
Hahaaa Yep agreed. It’s a constant battle here.
At what time of the year is it best collect and apply moss on bonsai
Anytime you can find it alive healthy and green.
Do you keep birds? Or are they wild ones? 😀
A mixture of wild and budgies that I keep as well.
David how the moss Turn Brown really quick?
You just need to keep watering it multiple times a day at the start until it starts to grow on its own.
@@Bonsaiworx thank you David I’m live in sunshine where about your shop in Melbourne when COVID over I will come to ur shop buy a lot thing for my bonsai I’m are bonsai lover
I don’t have a shop and just my backyard. I’m the president of bonsai club Bonsai Northwest Melbourne which meets in Essendon and once the club is open again you are very welcome to come there. Also we have our exhibition maybe in May next year in Footscray. Lots of bonsai to buy there too.
@@Bonsaiworx thank you David
I accidentally left my Bonsai out in sun too long now moss is yellow. How can I get it green again ?
Lots of water and shade. Can’t let it dry out.
@@Bonsaiworx Thank you !
I thought you changed your legal name from David to Worx. 😂
😂👍
What tree is it
Trident and Japanese maples.
Nice video. Please translate videos into Arabic to benefit from you and your Arab followers. Thank you
I will see how to do that. Thanks.
No need to -- Your English is pretty understandable. 👌 and a good way to learn and practice it.