Akadama Bonsai Soil Mix

This akadama bonsai soil mix provides excellent drainage and aeration for healthy root growth.

Akadama bonsai soil mix. This is a hard fired clay and great at retaining water. Akadama formulated bonsai soil mixes for bonsai trees. All ingredients must be bone dry screened and sized. Akadama is a clay like material found in japan and is a great soil component for bonsai trees due to its water retention and drainage abilities.

This component is ideal for mixing bonsai soil. Akadama bonsai soil also popular are pre mixes or ready mixes bonsai soils that include akadama as well as other ingredients including pumice lava and other volcanic particles. Medium small bonsai soil akadama and pumice with some lava charcoal and decomposed granite the medium small mix is similar in size to the medium clay king mix imported from japan. Ready to use straight out of the bag.

Non organic mix this mix is real bonsai soil and is made up of primarily non organic components no dirt bark mulch etc. Fuji on honshu island. The mix consists of. This is really substrate.

For deciduous use small size mix 1 16 1 4 and add 1 extra part of akadama. The time of forming this type of soil for bonsai trees has gone through a centuries long process and usually begins when layers of red soil become mixed in with the ordinary black soil. The unique characteristic of our akadama mix makes it porous allowing for absorption of water while spreading the nutrients to the bonsai trees roots. The only problem with this is it will break down in a few years.

Akadama is japanese for red ball earth and is aptly named because this soil is largely formed as a result of the eruptions of mt. This looks a lot like the high fired akadama clay but it isn t. After researching about the use of akadama in bonsai soil mixes it seems the consensus is that akadama breaks down very quickly and turns into mud within 2 years. I would like to know if it s suitable to replace akadama with kanuma since kanuma doesn t break down as quickly.

Clay king is great because it breaks down more slowly than many of the other akadama based mixes i ve used. Our soil recipe contains 1 part lava rock 1 part pumice 1 part akadama cup of horticultural charcoal per 5 gallon mix cup of decompose granite per 5 gallon mix. It is often considered to be a mandatory component when creating your bonsai mix. 1 2 double red line akadama 1 2 kyodama this is one of our premium bonsai soil mixes.

This akadama bonsai soil mix is a mixture of akadama made in japan and lava rock. Common brands of pre mixes include clay king and aoki mix. This has been found to provide optimal drainage water retention nutrient uptake and air to the roots which they love. We import only the highest grade japanese akadama suitable for bonsai trees.