Hello and welcome again to the Company Interiors Video Channel here on YouTube. My name's Nick Clark. And today's video we're going to be showing you how to do the ancient Japanese art of Cocchi Dharma Cocchi. Dharma is the rapping. It's Japanese for Ball of Moss. So, you know, we like our most products here at Company Interiors. We've got a few videos on the channel. This one today is is it is a style of bonzai, which involves replacing the traditional pot for a bowl of moss. And to do this, we've got a couple of the plants that we've already worked on here, the Anthee and Thearea, which is this plant here is an indoor or outdoor plant in warm conditions. And we've got the tea called A-line here as well. So we're gonna use this one as our example. And to do it, we work on the basis of it's not a bonzai soil that I use. What I actually use is probably a third aquatic soil, a third household or houseplant soil and a third just general garden soil. Now mix that all together. So we've got a we've got a Gritz soil format and we're gonna make some mud pies. We're literally going to pour water into it. So it reaches a consistency of a bowl of a fairly solid bowl in terms of that is its shape. And that is what we are going to wrap the root ball in before we then wrap it around with flat moss. This is our artificial flat moss that we promote here. And again, I've left you a link in the description of all of the products that I use here today. But also, if you want a sample of this moss, click on the link, filter details in. And I will get that in the post for you. If you just cover the postage for me, will send you some samples so you can try this at home as well. So let's take our plant tea called A-line.
I'm going to first of all, just take off some of the excess soil with my Bonzai Tools here. Small rake sounds quite dry. This plant. Careful just to tease the roots out, to start to see it spinning around, getting rather pop bound as it is. Then I'm gonna take my ball of mud. Make sure it's damp enough and I'm going to wrap that around the root ball. If that was a four inch pot, I would tend to say you're trying to create a ball of probably five inches, five and a half. The cerium that we did there yesterday also some shook, some close in shots of that one, that pot, that root ball with probably slightly on the large side. This is also used for hanging plants.
So there we have our ball of soil wrapped around and then we are literally gonna cover that in moss. So what I do then is I take my pieces of moss.
And I wrap that around, we're waiting for another.
There so there we have our Cocchi Dharma. Japanese Moss Bowl finished Bonzai with a covering of moss around the root ball for maintenance. He would just drop that into a container of water for five or 10 minutes. Don't be worried about some of the green that comes off of the moss initially. That's just a food color dye that they put into the product that will soon be gone. Let that drip dry and then you want to try and find yourself a nice oriental Japanese style flat plateau to put it on, or a bonzai flat pot. And then that feature sits quite nicely on a desk, a work surface, home or office, and quite a nice product, if you like this sort of stuff.
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