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Does sterilizing by baking or the bleach mixture change the colors of the wood and leaves?
What should the temp be for baking (i've heard from 250-450)?
what should the ratio of bleach to water be?
WHich do you recomend?
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I heard 400. My oven runs hot, and last summer, I had my whole house smelling like a campfire for several days!! Some of the pcs got a little black at the edges. Next time I will go with 350. Never used bleach, but I would have to assume that it would lighten it (it seems to lighten everything else). Go ahead and bake at 350-375 for 20 minutes or so. Keep your eyes and nose peeled. Oh, and let it cool down plenty (duh!). Good luck. Duffy
Wow, you had it hot in there. I was going to suggest 250 for roughly 25 minutes... 
If you bake the wood at too high of a temp, you'll scortch the wood, leaving a charcoal residue that will harm your critters. you really only need to wash the wood off with regualt tap water, let dry if your worried about worms or something.
to lighten the color, there is a product highly used in bonsai that makes wood so white, it's like white....fffffff and for some reason, moss seems to really likes to grow there afterwards...must be the acidic levels of the effected wood.
do a search online in the bonsai groups at yahoo or just a search in google.
hope this helps.
Deven
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