Bonsai Pruning

Growing indoor bonsai has become very popular and for some people bonsai is just about indoor trees.

Bonsai pruning. You will need shears and a concave cutter. Caring for your. This is a major form of pruning and is done more than once in the lifetime of the plants. In this video i talk about the ficus retusa.

Cutting branches to shape your tree. One of most successful indoor bonsai trees is the. Maintenance pruning to maintain and refine the existing shape of a bonsai and structural pruning which involves more rigorous pruning to give a tree its basic shape or style. Since this particular succulent plant grows so quickly it adapts itself well to trying out a bonsai inspired shape.

In most cases structural pruning includes removing major branches of the plant. How to prune a bonsai tree method 1 of 3. Determine which branches should be pruned. Portulacaria afra bonsai pruning.

Replacement pruning is used to reduce the height of a bonsai or the length of its branches. Remove all the weeds and dead wood or leaves. Shears come in varying sizes the size you. Ensure that the tree has enough time to recover from the pruning.

Prune for structure and style from november to february. Bonsai trees should only be pruned during a certain time. Look for weeds growing in the. Without doubt the most important way to train a bonsai is to prune it on a regular basis.

Essentially there are two different techniques. Doing structural and stylistic pruning. Analyse your bonsai tree to. Pruning any plant creates a wound that.

Step 3 deadwood. I would really like to try and prune it so that the outer branches grow into pads or groupings of sprouted leaves that form a level growing from the side of the main trunk. Structural pruning of bonsai. Structural or hard pruning is intended to give an initial form to virgin material reducing the length of the trunk and accentuating the taper if this is part of the design conceived for the bonsai or removing unnecessary branches.

It gives some radical structural changes to the plant. In terms of the pivotal points of work across the span of a bonsai s creation there are 3 key moments selecting and developing the initial structure then growing out and organizing the secondary branches and finally working to evenly distribute the strength across the tree to create tertiary ramification. Creating a bonsai is truly about building a design structure that is cohesive from the trunkline to the finest branching. 6 steps to pruning your bonsai step 1 have your tools ready.