Bonsai Ramification

Ramification is also essential to practitioners of the art of bonsai as it helps recreate the form and habit of a full size tree in a small tree grown in a container.
Bonsai ramification. Trees grow from the tips gaining mass behind them. It is one of the many ways that bonsai are made to look like a full sized trees in miniature. There are several steps involved and as far as some of the literature i ve seen the last steps are never covered. Having started bonsai over a year ago i am still just a beginner and originally learned to cut branches and leaves for ramification purposes.
The pruning practices of coppicing and pollarding induce ramification by removing most of a tree s mass above the root. Ramification essentially means twiggyness and makes a bonsai look more like an older full sized tree. Let s quickly go over the basics. Creating ramification on a bonsai hedge pruning by bonsai empire new 09 29 2019.
These related features are critical when it comes to developing quality deciduous and other bonsai. Ramification in bonsai is the main lines of the branches splitting into finer and finer twigs this is considered desirable in bonsai. This leads to my. Taper and fine tips.
In doing so you force the tree to grow new leaves leading to a reduction in the size of leaves and an increase in ramification. We use that growth in many ways. Building mass to make branches bigger to make entire parts of the tree bigger or to put the finishing touches in the form of ramification. The exquisite fine branching or ramification of a japanese zelkova in winter.
How to prune single flush pine bonsai bonsai u by bjorn bjorholm new 04 27 2020. Ramification bonsai forum bonsai empire. This twigginess is evocative of a mature tree. Bonsai tutorials for beginners.
In bonsai the goal is to control how the tips grow shape and balance and manage how they gain the mass along the way. Designing an olive bonsai tree by bonsai empire new 07 16 2019. Stage 1 in the first stage of development the trunk is developed using field growing techniques a subject which you can read more about in a previous post of mine. However when it comes to the art of bonsai it has come to mean branch development that displays a couple key features.
Leaf reduction techniques by bonsai iligan new 01 08 2016. Ramification is basically this. Bonsai defoliation involves cutting all the leaves of a tree during the summer.