BRT please help

[sjoh197]

So... just as a bit of an update... I pulled all of the decorative gravel from the top of this, as it seemed to be taking too long to drain, and even longer for the soil to begin to dry. I found a small amount of some form of fungus near the trunk of the tree last week. I carefully manually removed most of the fungus, and then applied a fungicide.

The soil that this tree came in was basically like potting soil. It had little aggregate... was very dense, and couldn't have had much air space. I have now repotted it back into its original pot, which I cleaned well. I went to a nursery a bit out of town that has lots of bonsai trees, and bonsai soil that they mix themselves. They had a crap ton of rain trees that looked super amazing. The lady gave me soil that they use for their rain trees. It is much more airy and aggregate filled. It drained really quickly.

Hopefully this helps.

 

[LanceMac10]

So... just as a bit of an update... I pulled all of the decorative gravel from the top of this, as it seemed to be taking too long to drain, and even longer for the soil to begin to dry. I found a small amount of some form of fungus near the trunk of the tree last week. I carefully manually removed most of the fungus, and then applied a fungicide.

The soil that this tree came in was basically like potting soil. It had little aggregate... was very dense, and couldn't have had much air space. I have now repotted it back into its original pot, which I cleaned well. I went to a nursery a bit out of town that has lots of bonsai trees, and bonsai soil that they mix themselves. They had a crap ton of rain trees that looked super amazing. The lady gave me soil that they use for their rain trees. It is much more airy and aggregate filled. It drained really quickly.

Hopefully this helps.

or where they where.....

A bit of profile sorting wouldn't hurt.... And I am not concerned that you said your location in a two sentence post. That's an edit...heheheeee...

 

[LanceMac10]

I'm only kickin' the can on ya'....
Feed 'dat sucka'.....

 

[aml1014]

View attachment 108539 or where they where.....

A bit of profile sorting wouldn't hurt.... And I am not concerned that you said your location in a two sentence post. That's an edit...heheheeee...

Where they were.

Sorry I'm a grammar Nazi pretty often lol

Aaron

 

[Paradox]

My 3 brt never got put out at all last summerror so they spent 2 winters and a summer inside under fairly strong grow lights and they are all still alive. They are outside now though.

 

[Paradox]

I should have also said that the yellowing of leaves I see in the pictures looks normal to me. Mine go through periods where dome leaves turn yellow and drop off. A few leaves here and there are no big deal. Lots of leaves all over are a big deal.

Changing the soil was probably a good idea.

 

[Alain]

So... just as a bit of an update... I pulled all of the decorative gravel from the top of this, as it seemed to be taking too long to drain, and even longer for the soil to begin to dry. I found a small amount of some form of fungus near the trunk of the tree last week. I carefully manually removed most of the fungus, and then applied a fungicide.

The soil that this tree came in was basically like potting soil. It had little aggregate... was very dense, and couldn't have had much air space. I have now repotted it back into its original pot, which I cleaned well. I went to a nursery a bit out of town that has lots of bonsai trees, and bonsai soil that they mix themselves. They had a crap ton of rain trees that looked super amazing. The lady gave me soil that they use for their rain trees. It is much more airy and aggregate filled. It drained really quickly.

Hopefully this helps.

Could you tell the composition of their soil?
Btw: a Nuts take picture of what he did, like that he could brag in front of the other Nuts

And yes, update you location in your profile please

 

[GrimLore]

So... just as a bit of an update... I pulled all of the decorative gravel from the top of this, as it seemed to be taking too long to drain, and even longer for the soil to begin to dry. I found a small amount of some form of fungus near the trunk of the tree last week. I carefully manually removed most of the fungus, and then applied a fungicide.

The soil that this tree came in was basically like potting soil. It had little aggregate... was very dense, and couldn't have had much air space. I have now repotted it back into its original pot, which I cleaned well. I went to a nursery a bit out of town that has lots of bonsai trees, and bonsai soil that they mix themselves. They had a crap ton of rain trees that looked super amazing. The lady gave me soil that they use for their rain trees. It is much more airy and aggregate filled. It drained really quickly.

Hopefully this helps.

I am thinking in Houston it is quite warm right now and a good time to repot that species. What comes to mind though is you may want to find a spot not in direct sun but partial for awhile. It will be fine with it and recover and grow faster for you - at least it would here... Also now that it is in fast draining substrate narrow your fertilizer down to just the Miracle Grow and use 3 times the amount once a week 15 minutes after watering. Do all of that throughout the growing season and modify it a bit in the winter.

Grimmy

 

[sjoh197]

Hi there, I updated my location.

The first pic is what it was in before. The second is what it is in now. I don't know exactly what's in the new soil. The lady that owned the store didn't have the best of english. Although her trees were amazing. They had to have had at least 200 trees there. They probably had 15-20 BRT's.

Also, I bought miracle grow and will be using that now. Thanks a lot for all of the advice. If I can manage to not kill this one, I will go back to that shop and maybe pick up a few more inexpensive ones in August.

 

[Alain]

Thanks for the picture! It gives me ideas for the soil I'll use when re-poting time will come for it.