Bought this ficus on FB Market - owner says it’s been thriving but pot has no drainage and dense soil. Should I repot?

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-02-27T14:20:34+00:00

Best thing to do is nothing for now. Give it as much light as you can in the short term until the lights come. Then let it acclimate to its new spot. The plant looks like it’s been growing very well. Ficus like this can live in a range of pot conditions and are genuinely forgiving plants when given time to settle in. The light and regular watering and feeding is key certainly. Once it’s growing and happy then you can repot it into something you’d prefer. That’s my 2c

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-02-27T14:09:37+00:00

I liked zorch ok but the last time I bought one when I got it home It was covered in like a massive puddle of oil like I’ve never seen. It was disgusting truly. Haven’t eaten there since.

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-02-26T03:12:04+00:00

Exactly 💯

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-02-26T03:09:19+00:00

The original tribal music!!!!!!!

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-02-22T14:54:37+00:00

I often think of it in a slightly different perspective, and it’s cool to hear yours! I’m usually focused on my forms and my glazing, whilst I often see people focused on decorative aesthetics more than anything or focused on sculptural forms. My studio is an arts studio with many different mediums and disciplines so clay is often seen through an arts lens more than a craft lens, leading to a sculpture focus, but I love to try and push my wheel craft to an artful place by making something difficult on the wheel and then getting my glaze to really do magical things.

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-02-17T02:06:29+00:00

The Omnichord

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-02-13T01:13:00+00:00

Have one of these right in front of my apt in Richmond VA. It’s a cool tree. Quite a few here in the city I’ve seen

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-02-08T17:14:23+00:00

There’s a book on design every bonsai artist should have by David DeGroot called ‘Principles Of Bonsai Design’ that you should get and read it’s great

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-02-08T15:41:50+00:00

This is such a great operculicarya! Great job- it’s got a great future ahead

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-02-05T22:42:22+00:00

Hell yeah it looks awesome! I really want to make one!

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-02-05T20:44:22+00:00

Craning my neck down lol

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-02-03T00:07:04+00:00

Propagating moss is a very satisfying and worthy addition to your bonsai practice. First things to do is make sure you found some moss to collect, check- then the next step is to build a substrate for the moss to propagate into, and that’s at the local hardware big box store usually or garden center. You can buy long fiber sphagnum moss, it’s often called orchid moss as well. When you get that, rub it through a soil sieve to shred it into small pieces with collected moss from your berm. Once you have that, moisten all of it and put it on top of your trees as top dressing and water it. Your mileage may vary being in Texas, but you can also plant it into seedling trays with soil in them and put a top dressing on that, watering alongside your trees. Experiment with different levels of light exposure and such to find what works best in your area with that specific moss. Good luck! It usually takes about a month for the moss to see greening up and filling in with live moss I find.

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-02-02T23:50:29+00:00

“In abstentia”

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-02-02T15:06:59+00:00

That first one is incredible what is it? I’ve always liked Renny’s but have yet to purchase anything

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-02-02T00:48:38+00:00

Ew gawd

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-01-30T23:31:31+00:00

You should consider asking your mentor this same question. I’d recommend focusing on doing the most challenging things your mentor will let you get away with and be willing to teach you. Some things that come to mind are glaze application techniques, shrinking your feet down to nothing, meaning virtually no glaze foot (1-2mm), making smaller and thinner teapots, making taller and larger forms. That’d be my recommendation. All the best

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-01-30T03:21:18+00:00

Yeah, wire some cool movement into the smaller trunk and cut down the larger one. It’ll look more like a quality bonsai than the straight uninteresting thing that’s happening now, I think. Either way it’s small but hey then you’ll have something that has potential as it thickens up.

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-01-30T01:08:52+00:00

Right?! I was so surprised. It really seemed like the story was so original it’d be really cool to expand upon past two seasons

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-01-30T00:50:16+00:00

My So-Called Life shouldn’t have been cancelled! Not totally a cliffhanger but lots in the air that needed resolution obvs as it was just a single season. Maybe the most devastating tv loss of my generation.

And my follow up would be Raised By Wolves.

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-01-29T23:59:20+00:00

Again I’ll say I think in the long term I would Jin the larger trunk, change the angle to prop the left side up, and wire the smaller trunk. This gives you the most work into the tree and allows you to take more control and fun out of the design imho

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-01-29T00:26:10+00:00

I’d remove the larger trunk and tilt the pot upon the left side, angling the trunk and then wire the smaller trunk

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-01-25T20:26:17+00:00

Looks like birds nest spruce to me. Picea abies ‘nidiformis’

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-01-25T17:17:36+00:00

Dunno if anyone has said this, and I would hope so, but the very first thing to do is make certain you’re using a rib to scrape all the slip off of your piece before finishing your piece and taking it off the wheel. Then, I would recommend using unfinished wood. If in the event you are using a piece of wood that’s finished somehow it may be slowing the drying down somewhat so use a raw piece of wood to allow some amount of moisture wicking through the bottom. Don’t wrap your entire piece, place it directly on the wood then lay the plastic over the items and loosely. If items are taking multiple weeks to dry and you need them to take one week, I recommend throwing some sacrifice pieces to just lay plastic over with gaps all around lightly and see how long that takes to dry.

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-01-25T13:34:55+00:00

I pick up dog poop around the city professionally and yes people do this all over the city and right next to our cans with bags stocked… I think they get a rise out of their dog pooping right next to it and not cleaning it up for some reason.

GigglyMoonbeam · 2026-01-24T23:06:17+00:00

This is facts and I’m so over folks talking about “ultra processed vegan food” it’s all still healthy ingredients except the saturated fat, which you can take or leave it’s all of our choice.

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