Cleaning My New Bonsai Pots, The Bonsai Zone, Jan 2022
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- I bought two used pots yesterday and today I'm cleaning them up to make them show ready!
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Only Nigel could make "washing dishes" interesting. I am happy to see people reuse old things instead of always buying new. Just a little elbow grease and you have some beautiful pots
So true!
"Washing dishes"! Hilarious!
34 minutes of washing pots and I loved every second of it
Thanks, next my wife will get me to do the dishes!!
A great winter project, cleaning our bonsai pots and getting them ready for a future tree. Great idea to do this now that we are couped up in the house for the cold, winter months.
That explanation was great about how pots breathe! There have been several online discussions about this recently! The debate about glazed and unglazed. re purposing other containers as pots, like ceramic dishes that are glazed inside and out, and why Bonsai pot are not glazed inside. People got very technical as to why, but I'm sure it's just a cost thing, like why glaze something you never see... I use many other containers as bonsai pots. I don't have much choice really, I always clean and sterilize everything. This was a really informative video, thanks a bunch!
Thanks Marysol, glad you enjoyed me doing the dishes!!
They came our really good and I like that it was all done just by using household items. Good job!
Thanks Nigel Saunders I'm also a fan of weathered old styled pots with that patina that only time itself can only create. I especially like a low glaze just like my pot for my sagebrush in my icon. I never applied oil to any of my pots, so I might have to give it a try on a few.
Speaking from my experience of dealing with limestone my whole life I can say your approach with citric acid was right, you just had to use a bit more concentrated acid than just juice OR just let it dissolve longer. Vinegar is a bit less effective because chemically it's a different acid (acetic).
Higher concentrated citric acid is safe to use on clay or glazed pots as does nothing but dissolve calcium carbonate and it's very cheap. Just spray and watch H2CO3 become CO2 and H2O, it does sound fun (hissing) too.
Thanks, great tips and information!!
Thanks Nigel after all these years and we still learn something with every video awesome 👏
Thanks Fred, glad you liked the video!
Thanks for the tutorial Mr. Saunders. The neat thing about using the toothbrushes is they can be bent in different angels to help get in the awkward places like the inside bottom crevices. I just bend them backwards and they usually hold the shape I put them to.
Just remember to use your wife or kids brush dont use your own
@@andersnrregren9087 LOL I use new brushes.
Great tip!
Total agreement on philosophy of patina.
What a difference and look really good now.
Great techniques on cleaning and adding a bit of shine on a bonsai pot.
Thanks for showing this Nigel.
Thanks Nigel! Happy New Year!
Always a pleasure to look ure works !
Thanks!
Thanks Nigel. I really like the unglazed pot. It is beautiful.
Thanks Sami, it is very unique!
I really love buying old used pots....SOS brand scrubbing pads with soap work great.. they haven't scratched any glazed pots yet..
I prefer used pots, they already have a bit of patina!!!
@@TheBonsaiZone plus used pots tend to be much less expensive.
Leaf shine cleans and oils a pot nicely. I do like that unglazed pot.
Love that brown round pot Nigel. very different,
Great job Nigel! You make me feel lazy as I soaked my Kim’s pot in CLR.. ruh roh! 🤣
As long as it works!! It might be the best method!
Hi there, I put my pots with high amount of lime build up in a plastic bag that has household vinegar in it, sometimes diluted. It lets the few amount of vinegar to contact with most of thebuild ups and usually after few hours it looks as good as new. I don't use sandpaper because it easily scratches the glaze. Thanks for your videos.
Top Nigel 😃👌 And i wish you and your Family a Happy New Year 🥰😃👍🏽
Winter can wreak havoc on pots which is very frustrating. My winter hardly trees live in ugly mica and plastic pots. I’m guessing those will get some nice tropicals. Thanks, keep growing
Mica pots come up fine when cleaned(see my comment)
I don’t know what kind of apple cider you got but the one I got smells like stinky socks hahaha The cleaning job looks really good Nigel!
Thanks Xin, and thanks for the info on the pot maker!!!
👌👌👌...!!!
Nice pots 👌🏻
Thanks Rick!
Walnuts pounded into a paste on the rag will take that right off the difference between that and other oil is that the stain is still gone after it dries.
Punctuation helps
Wow , lovely pots, i loved that round brown pot with those cool legs👌👌, this video shows ur efforts on d asthetics of pots as well👍
Thanks a lot 😊
I said the same in the last video but I do love the unglazed pot.
Nigel, if you look at the blue pot at the side showing at the very end of the video (with the 3 drips of glaze) I see a castle or ruins of one. Definitely the front of the pot. Nice job once again.
Interesting!
lovely pots btw, i when to buy some on the nursery but the pot had to hols in them, so i didn't get any haha.
To remove lime scale safely and for a small amount of money, you can just use plain white vinegar. mix 1:1 with water and it can be applied either with a rag or from a spray bottle. for heavy build-ups you may need to let it sit for a while before rinsing. if you are unusre whether or not it is safe on a pot, a small amount can be used in a not clearly visible spot and rate the results.
Nice restoration job on the pots Nigel. I was thinking bi-carbonate of soda could be a useful cleaning agent
I am going try clear swedish vinegar and nylon, maybe bronze brush.
i have to much humidity so i buy one of thos big dehumidifier for my house and it is used a lot, the water it takes out, i start useing it on some of my plants, not sure if it will harm them.
I might have a very different mental image but with a similar meaning when people talk about the [Eye of the Beholder], this is because my friends and I used to play a lot of DnD back in the day and the beholder was one of my more favorite mastermind type of villain.
Lol!
Hi Nigel. I oil my unglazed pots using a 25% veg. oil (ie. rape seed) and 75% bio-ethanol. The oil is immiscible with the ethanol, but shake the mixture well to form an emulsion. Then apply with a cloth. This prevents overloading with oil and helps to evenly disperse it. The ethanol quickly evaporates leaving the oil behind. Keep shaking the mixture while applying as it eventually separates. Finally buff with a lint free cloth. I apply it to the sides, feet and lip of the pot only. I do this 2 days before exhibiting. This mixture can also be used to clean and bring up the patina on the bark of the trees.
Thanks Graham, sounds like a good method!!
I'm starting closed terrariums.
I just started to learn how to propagate, different species of Moss, and tiny plants, from my area.
Nice, a really fun hobby!!!
@@TheBonsaiZone Yes it is.
Do you have a email, I can send you my progress?
@@smeedgar It is...
thekwbonsaisociety@gmail.com
@@TheBonsaiZone Thanks! I will send you my findings.
Anything sour enough to dissolve limescale will also corrode marble because calcium carbonate is the principal component of both. Marble you simply have to protect from exposure to acids if you care to preserve it.
Thanks
Satisfying detail work they look beautiful, never really considered pots that way just give them a wipe over, bonsai is a personal hobby to me I have some beautiful trees but consider them of not a high standard, I have 3 tall blue shaded glazed pots about 40cm, with square drip trays for cascading trees these have now crazed due to neglect because heath reasons, could anything be done to restore them, or should I just leave them as they are keeping them clean, they look OK just very old, enjoying the videos thanks for the information on this one. Uk🇬🇧👍
Sounds like they have some nice patina, I'd just wipe them down every now and then and enjoy the look!
@@TheBonsaiZone thanks for the reply really enjoying the videos 👍
So THAT is where my toothbrush disappeared to!
Nigel, where did you get your root rake?
Is it fine to use the lemon juice and the mineral oil if there’s a tree in the pot? Or would you advise against?
As long as you keep it out of the soil, you should be OK!
👍🍎👌👌
How come your pots get calcium stains when you use rain water?
We have very hard water where I live and I don't have any possibility to get rain water so I have to filter my water twice to use it. So I am constantly battling those limestone stains but how come you are getting those too?
The stains are from the fertilizer I use, the salts gradually build up over time. I add a very small amount of fertilizer to my water and every time I water, I am also fertilizing.
Foist?
Next time Nigel save the time and work and soak them in Coca Cola for a few hrs. Simple acid trick
And some people drink that stuff 😳
Now i am kinda happy i dont have any real pots with 252 trees i would have notthing else to do then wash pots, i say i have no real pots but i have mame pots but one slice of citrus clean one pot so that is ez
buongiorno basta un po di acido muriatico tamponato per la pulizia dei vasi incrostati dal calcare
It's strange the Canadians near me speak French. You speak like your from Colorado or something.