Blue Spruce Bonsai Training

This bonus episode of bonsai u features the styling of a colorado blue spruce bonsai planted on a lace rock. Learn how to navigate difficult design hurdles in this newest episode of bonsai u. It thrives best in moist soil but adapts well to period of drought.

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Specific bonsai care guidelines for the spruce bonsai tree position.

Blue spruce bonsai training. Therefore your bonsai must be maintained in a cool cold environment during the winter season. Their natural cone shaped growth pattern makes it difficult to style and create a new ramification and they certainly don t backbud or get wired easily thus. Even though a spruce bonsai can take a fair amount of work and patience to deal with if properly styled it can grow to be one of the most sublime and majestic bonsai trees ever seen. Commonly referred to as the colorado blue spruce the blue spruce is an evergreen of the pine family.

Its stiff horizontal branches produce bluish green rigid needles that create a dense cone shaped canopy. Just the continued work of how to create a bonsai tree using nursery stock from garden centers. This tree was originally collected in the rocky mountains just outside of denver colorado at at elevation of 5500 feet. As a guide around thanksgiving day it is time to prepare your bonsai for its winter dormancy period which should last approximately three 3 months.

In winter it should be placed in semi shade and frost protection is recommendable when the tree is planted in a bonsai pot because frozen roots can t provide water while the evergreen foliage continues to transpire and can desiccate. This tree was originally collected just outside of denver colorado in 2017 and subsequently planted on this stone at eisei en in spring of 2019. Never remove all needles. During growing season wait for the new shoots to grow to 1 inch then pinch them back to about two thirds of their length.

Do major pruning in early fall when wounds will bleed less. The spruce needs a place in full sun during the growing season. In this episode bjorn discussed design principles of a chuuhin colorado blue spruce bonsai. A colorado blue spruce bonsai is a living miniature tree and not a house plant.

Never remove all needles.