The Water Gum was repotted in Spring 2022, which means it got a dose of the terrible soil mix I used that year. The Water Gum survived because I put it in a tray of water and never took it out. In fact, it thrived. But that feels like cheating, and is definitely not advised treatment of bonsai, so I wanted to move it to a perlite/pumice mix.
Come December, and a mild couple of weeks forecast, and I decided to get some proper soil in place.
In the past when I’ve had a pot in water for long periods of time, I’ve had all the roots get out through the drainage holes. I was worried that might have happened, but it turned out not to be a problem.
The soil was solid and dry.
The roots actually seem to have done quite well.
And we’re done.
At some point I’ll need to start some defoliation to hope I can get the leaf size down. But not this year.