1. The empty bonsai pot after the bonsai was taken out.
2. The bonsai removed from the pot.
3. Close-up of the roots of the bonsai, tightly intertwined.
4. Loosening up the soil around the roots with my trusty blunt screwdriver.
5. Bonsai with a good amount of the soil removed from the roots.
6. Another view of the bonsai with the soil removed from the roots.
7. Loosening out more soil with the bonsai lying on its side.
8. The bonsai lying on its side with the roots straightened out.
9. The bonsai with the roots trimmed (about the bottom 40%).
10. Front view of bonsai with trimmed roots.
11. Pot with stones on the holes (to prevent excessive soil running out over time).
12. The soil that was removed from the bonsai.
13. Mixing some fresh composted soil with the old soil (about 2 to 3 parts
of the new soil to the old one (retaining some of the old soil to
supposedly help the tree settle down a little quicker).
14. Mixing the new soil with some of the old until it looks more uniformly mixed.
15. Filling up the pot to about half full with the mixed soil.
16. Positioning the bonsai into the pot ensuring that the roots are
all facing down and preferably not intertwining with each other.
17. Filling the pot with more soil until all the roots are covered.
You may wish to have the top of the main roots showing but this is a personal choice.
18. Giving the bonsai a good watering to let the soil settle down as much as possible.
19. View of the soil in the pot after good watering.
20. Another round of watering after topping up the pot
with a bit more soil to fill in the spaces where there were less soil.
21. The basic tools I use for my bonsai.
Once in a while I may use a knife or razor to shape or prune parts of my bonsai
but the above 3 are my basic tools - blunt screwdriver, pair of garden scissors
and a trusty spade (this one is already bent on the edge but still usable).
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