每日吃瓜

Hi all,

I got my girlfriend a "Grow your own bonsai" pack for Valentine's Day as I thought it could be fun for us to do together and it lasts rather than flowers (well.. Hopefully!!).

The pack came with 5 little compost able pots and a pack of generic seeds, and a small instruction pack for getting started.

We diligently followed these steps - let the seeds sit in soil for 4 weeks, 6 weeks of simulated winter (in the beer fridge), and then the waiting game to see if anything came of it. At this point, the people who make these kits obviously don't expect anyone to have managed to actually do anything! We have a shoot with no instructions on what to do until the tree is a year old.

Do we need to re-pot the tree? Does it need food? At this point we are a bit stumped (we are both very amature gardeners) and we don't want to risk doing nothing to it and it dying.

Also, what on earth is it?! It's about a month since it finished winter and it has shot up a fair bit...
(Photos to follow as it isn't letting me attach them at the moment)

We do have two other little shoots on the way but no distinguishing features as of yet... Watch this space.

Any help/advice/tips would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks

Matt & Hannah

RustyRustage wrote: I got my girlfriend a "Grow your own bonsai" pack for Valentine's Day as I thought it could be fun for us to do together and it lasts rather than flowers (well.. Hopefully!!).

每日吃瓜 is more a technique of reducing large trees, than growing trees from seed. There is no such thing as bonsai seed. A 'grow your own bonsai' kit is similar to buying a pile of bricks with an instruction to build your own castle. Theoretically it's possible, in reality it is hardly feasilble, will cost you decades, lots of effort, and as you're inexperienced in building castles, the results may not be what you expected.

Also, what on earth is it?! It's about a month since it finished winter and it has shot up a fair bit...
(Photos to follow as it isn't letting me attach them at the moment)

Errm.... :huh: Can't tell what it is without that photo... what did the package say that contained the seeds?

Can't edit my posts sometimes. Not sure why.

Wanted to add:
And then you realize that the bricks in the 'build your own castle' kit are... well, just bricks that you could have bought cheaper anywhere, that the manual is worthless, and it would have been better to buy a good book, research on the internet, or do a study building castles.

at AUK.
I have to say... out of all your posts on mallsai, pre bonsai, and bonsai seeds, the castle analogy is the best you've come up with.