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RE: Bonsai Soil: Back to Basics, the Good Stuff Trees need [Bonsai]
Very nice looking tree in the final post looks perfectly healthy. filet to hors...I guess all good things in life have French names. I am interested by the time you spend on choosing soil. Also seems soil choice is directly tied to how often you need to re-pot your trees.
Yes, it can be, but we also have to watch the growth cycle of the tree during the year. Late fall and early spring are the best times of the year to disturb the roots.
Many of the trees that I had used poor soil on (because I was cheap and used potting soil I could afford/find) were displaying similar poor quality root results. When I see two or three long coiling taproots at the bottom, and the all the other roots are barely spreading out into the rest of the pot because the soil there is wet and spongy, I know the the tree could have benefited from a better bonsai soil.