Bonsai Pruning Juniper
This technique ultimately leads to a reduction in leaf size and an increase in ramification.
Bonsai pruning juniper. How to trim a juniper bonsai and avoid brown tips aussie bonsai bloke duration. So although you can stimulate growth in your juniper bonsai by pinching its tips and cutting small portions from its green parts cutting into. Place your bonsai on a flat surface at eye level. Step 3 deadwood.
Hosted by jason chan of eastern leaf. Don t prune the roots too aggressively. In this video we will teach you how to creat your own bonsai tree juniper tree the movie follows a five step approach to growing a bonsai tree. The juniper s tolerance and adaptability provide the tree with great resilience to pruning.
Use seeds or cuttings. You can often find good bonsai raw material there. Junipers have buds only at the ends of their branches. Though certain care should be taken with pruning the juniper bonsai the tree will seldom provide negative responses to pruning and activities.
Analyse your bonsai tree to. Prune the juniper continuously during its growing season from early spring through late fall. Sam doecke aussie bonsai bloke 10 603 views. Step 2 determine where to cut.
Repot the juniper bonsai tree once every two years very old trees at longer intervals using a basic or somewhat more draining soil mixture. Sterilize small sharp clean pruning shears by dipping the blades in hydrogen peroxide. 2 analyze the stem structure of the. This technique is also called nipping.
Shears come in varying sizes the size you. You will need shears and a concave cutter. Many well suited juniper species in different sizes are offered in most nurseries. In this video we give a quick update on a juniper tree in a 5 gallon can.
He shows how the same cuts were applied to another tree and how the bonsai design will develop due to the cuts. Acquisition of juniper bonsai. Another method of bonsai pruning is defoliation which involves removing leaves of deciduous trees during the summer to force the tree to grow new leaves. The practice used for pruning juniper bonsai trees is known as finger pinching.
6 steps to pruning your bonsai step 1 have your tools ready. The buds are held between the tips of the thumb and forefinger and twisted sharply to make a clean cut. For more information check the defoliation page.