A tough year of bonsai

[eugenev2]

COnsidering we are talking survival-of-tree level solutions..

-> Consider full defoliation for those species that backbud easily
-> Wrap rootball (And possibly full crown) in large plastic bags (AND KEEP THE PLANTS OUT OF THE SUN AFTERWARDS)

No backup fo rnot having water here. Guess that has never happened here; Luxury situation. But I do have 2 500l rainbarrels on a drainpipe. If you have a gutter-drainpipe then installing a water-harvester is a 10 minute job, and well-worth the money.

I will give this a try on the ones that have severe damage. Do you need to give it a good watering before hand?

 

[eugenev2]

This is South Africa. We have scheduled power cuts almost every day called “load shedding”, for 2-4 hours, sometimes multiple times per day. We even have a local app that helps us track the outages. This is due to our government’s poor planning and wastage of resources. This has been in effect on and off for over 10 years.

Water is also an issue at times, poor maintenance of our water systems result in occasional outages due to repairs being carried out.

But hey, at least we’re good at Rugby

Good at rugby only goes that far. But will defenitely be less naive and get backup system up and running. Carrying 50 to 75 liters of water up and down stairs daily is not sustainable