Poink88
Imperial Masterpiece
I think you are confusing bonsai mix to inorganic. Bonsai soil doesn't mean 100% inorganic always. My "soil" mix is approximately 30% organic.
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I think you are confusing bonsai mix to inorganic. Bonsai soil doesn't mean 100% inorganic always. My "soil" mix is approximately 30% organic.
carp
Chumono
Generally what I refer to as bonsai soil is mostly inorganic substrates even if there is pine bark in it.... Semantics.
Poink88
Imperial Masterpiece
carp
Chumono
Semantics to you. Seem like you are the new king.
I don't believe in inequality.
edprocoat
Masterpiece
HUH ??? Semantics ... ? How would semantics play into whether or not pine bark is organic, it is organics and no matter how you use or apply the name pine bark it will never be inorganic. So if there is pine bark in it, its an organic mix ...
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carp
Chumono
So a mix of Turface, Expanded Shale, Slate, Lava Rock, Diatomaceous Earth, and Pine Bark 1:1:1:1:1:1 is an organic mix? Do you call Turface, Lava Rock and Pine Bark 1:1:1 organic too? These are serious questions. Because of the little amount of organic and the majority being inorganic, I call it inorganic. And whenever "bonsai mix" is referenced, we are usually talking about several inorganic substrates with very litter organic substrate; which again I do call an inorganic mix. To me, semantics.
edprocoat
Masterpiece
Yup, those mixes with organic material in them would be an organic mix ! Now if you wanted to use an inorganic mix try Turface, Lava Rock, Expanded Shale or anything other that is not organic and you would have a non organic mix.
BTW, Diatomaceous Earth is an organic component too....
Oh, and here "whenever "Bonsai mix" is referenced" we usually specify exactly what mix we are talking about. There are some serious discussion here about Bonsai mix and they leave no doubt as to which materials are included in the mix.
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carp
Chumono
DE is organic in the sense that its fossilized diatoms, but its not dirt, and I don't consider it organic for that reason. I'm still not going to refer to a mix with a substantially higher amount of inorganic substrate as organic. I'm going to say it again, to me, the mix has a majority of organic substrate, then its organic, and if it has a majority of inorganic substrate, its inorganic; semantics. Seriously, no one on this forum is going to change my mind and I'll continue arguing my opinion that it doesn't matter what you grow bonsai in and that a mix with a small part of organic substrate is not an organic mix.
Poink88
Imperial Masterpiece
Back in the Philippines in the late 60s, I used to assist my grandpa airlayer sapodilla (which I read now cannot be airlayered LOL). We use soil/dirt wrapped in coconut husk. I know we cloned lots of them successfully that way.
You cannot get more organic than that.
So I did them from organic to inorganic soil (as you consider my mix inorganic).
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