How to make Kokedama-Moss ball

How to make Kokedama-Moss ball

Hello, thank you for visiting this kokedama tutorial. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to make your first kokedama easily and some basic knowledge.

Kokedama bonsai

1. Prepare the materials:

• Peat soil
• Akadama soil
• Green moss
• Newspaper
• thread
• scissor
• water
• gloves
• bucket

2. Mix the soils and make the moss ball

Example kokedama mix

• peat soil 70% akadama 30%
• peat soil 50% sand type soil 15% akadama soil 35%

Important to making kokedama balls is to mix the soils well, and make a clay. (you can use your own soil blend. If the consistency of the clay is too loose, it will break when it's watered.)

Example ball shapes

• square
• round
• triangle
• tear shape
• star, etc.

3. Remove the soil off of your plant

4. Insert your plant into the ball

5. Moisten the green moss

Watering the green moss

6. Cover the ball with the green moss

Cover the whole ball with the green moss and bind it with thread
Recommended thread

• same or similar color to the moss
• cotton thread (it dissolves into the soil after a while so you don't need to take it off after the green moss grows on the ball)
• fishing thread (tough and not noticeable but you need to take it off after the green moss grows on the ball)

6 Tada! done!

After you have made your kokedama, you need to water it, so prepare a bucket which contains enough water to cover the green moss ball (not the plant) and leave it for about 10 minutes.
How do you like your first kokedama? It's really cute, isn't is?
Hope you enjoyed the tutorial