Tamahi Organic Bonsai Food 500g Slow Release Fertiliser | NPK: 5-2-1

"Tamahi", known as the optimal bonsai fertilizer, is a made of a traditional blend of select rapeseed meal and bone meal. This safe and secure organic fertilizer is renowned for its gradual and long-lasting fertilizing effect.

"Maruta Ichiban Shibori® Rapeseed Meal", with a constitution that is greatly different from normal rapeseed meal, is used for Tamahi. Normal rapeseed meal is extracted using organic solvents, so the oil content in the rapeseed meal is 1% or less. Conversely, Maruta Ichiban Shibori® Rapeseed Meal is produced with a traditional manufacturing method called compression; hence, the meal has a very high oil content of about 8%. This oil content is extremely effective and achieves an effect incomparable to other fertilizer.

Insects such as fruit flies may show up, but this is evidence that microorganisms are decomposing the Tamahi, and the effect of the fertilizer is emerging. The insects are no harm the plants, but if the insects bother you, putting down a layer of soil will improve the situation. The presence of insects is indication that the fertilizer is effecting.
Tamahi has been used traditionally and is indispensable for growing bonsai in Japan.