billa wrote:paddles wrote:I like the Debco bonsai mix, but it's getting hard to get a hold of...
Yes definitely true...maybe it is a discontinued product? I must find out and let you know
Mitre 10 has it ! As a commercial mix this is good. Then places like the imagination tree and collecters corner have their own mixes. Clubs sometimes stock and sell to could be a good idea to get your clubs to do a collective buy. North West supplys mediums. Time to learn how to make your own. Theirs heaps of info here on how.
Quite a few years ago when I was working at a large retail nursery in Tweed Heads I used to order Searle's Bonsai potting mix for resale in the Bonsai section, as Debco was too expensive to freight from Melbourne. Each week it would arrive and I would open a bag to sample the quality. One week it would be pure gravel the next it would be little more than mud. 
After several complaints to them that I could not sell this to our customers, much less use it ourselves, they sent one of their sons down with about ten samples of product that might have been suitable. I picked out two that were suitable. For the next two orders I received what we had agreed upon, from there on I got gravel and mud again on a rotating, fortnightly basis. So, unless Searles have got their act together and are producing a good Bonsai mix, then I just buy their Premium potting mix and add or subtract river sand, cow manure or peat as needed for the species being potted.
