Bonsai Trunk Fusion

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Bonsai trunk fusion. Published on oct 31 2018 how to make ficus bonsai by fusion. Let me introduce the players the trees are acer buergerianum trident maple. But do not forget that these scars are a type of injury. Here it is the post you ve been waiting your whole life for how to make little trees into big trees or something like that.

A technique not so often used is trunk fusion. The starting point of any bonsai is finding material with a suitable trunk and nebari. Yes you can fuse branches of ficus plant and create a new branch or trunk or add roots to your plant. There are two different growing methods that have been employed here.

After being seperated out of the 1g bucket that they came in they were rootpruned and repotted individually into bonsai soil to spend the summer outside. This is possible by fusion. You can intentionally scar a pine or juniper bonsai tree to help the trunk thicken. I planning on starting a ficus trunk fusion experiment and your step by step pictures were very instructional.

Using a carving knife you need to cut vertically through the bark until you reach the sap layer. These plants can be collected from the wild yamadori or backyards bought at nurseries or grown from young seedlings. 31 thoughts on ficus bonsai trunk fusing experiment amey says. Trunk fusions are not a traditional old school method for growing a bonsai trunk.

Bonsai trunk fusion fusing many trunks to one fat bonsai trunk trunk fusions are a grafting technique that use multiple approach grafts of seedlings or rooted cuttings to create a large base trunk with a dramatic even taper in a relatively short time frame. One was to let them grow slow so the nodes the places. Approach grafts are most commonly used to add a branch to a tree by simply securing the two together. 1g ficus benjamina from lowes greenhouse 5 to 8 trunks in a pot 18 to 24 high w trunk caliper between 1 4 and 5 8.

It is by producing scar tissue that the tree will thicken its trunk as the time passes. A trunk created by the bonsai trunk merging technique trunk merging although not formally a way to get a trunk to become thick it is a way to create a tree with a thick trunk in the shortest time possible.