r/Kokedama

Hello everyone!
I recently learned more about Kusamono and Kokedama and started crafting both. Usually, I make bonsai pots, but after an interaction with Young Choe at our local bonsai society's monthly meeting, she inspired me to broaden my skill set. The tray still has some moisture, but I will bisque fire it within the week! I also made some kusamono pots and will bisque-fire them soon.

The stamp in the middle is my logo, called Kugui | 鵠*.* This is "old-fashioned" Japanese for the word swan. I use it as a motif to represent self-sustained beauty and versatility in all of my work.

If you have any helpful tips, recommendations, or even ideas on Kokedama Tray, feel free to comment or DM me! I do take commissions~

Im so happy about the result! 🤗

So we purchased a Bromeliad Kokedama around 3 months ago. I realize now this was probably not the best kind of pant to get in a Kokedama…being that it was already flowered and now I find out the mother dies shortly after. It does have several pups though.

The flower is now brown and dwindling. The mother has begun to slide left and seems kind of loose. I currently have it in my coffee table and we are watching TV, well one of the larger pups just plopped off the mother and fell to the coffee table.

So here I am wondering, what now? How can I transplant the pup when it just fell off like that? It seems to look healthy. Everything I read says to let it dry out for 1-2 days and then put it in a well drained soil like cactus or orchid.

What do I do with the Kokedama now that it seems like the mother may plop off soon too?! Is the Kokedama now done?

Any of you experts out there able to see what’s going on, and can offer some advice please? 🙏🏽

Don’t mind the extra moss hanging out, that is not part of the bowl. It is fake moss that I put around the bowl only a couple of days ago to fill the bowl a little bit.

The pictures are of the pup and the dried area one by the ball is where it fell out of… the rest of the pics are of the overall Kokedama and of some of the other pups on it.

Thank you so much for your help!

I grew this from a cutting I got five years ago, last summer it went absolutely crazy with the feet! It's in a rounded pot so the feet have an inch or so of room from the main base.

I thought maybe a kokedama setting with the moss might support the feet and help me keep it misted appropriately. But I really love it (waiting on it regrowing some leaves after a rough winter) and I don't want to accidentally lose it to an experiment.

Thoughts?

Just showing off my first kokedama made with a little dracena!
Im super satisfied and I can’t wait to see how it will look like in a few months 🤩