Bonsai Trunk Merging Technique

A thick bonsai tree trunk can be achieve with a sacrificial branch trunk merger or the bend to grow technique.

Bonsai trunk merging technique. These branches are not pruned at all for two to three years thickening the trunk as they grow quickly. Different tree varieties take different times for branches to set in place and different varieties will take more or less tension to bend them into place. The branch growing to the right is the sacrifice branch left untouched to help thicken the trunk. One technique to thicken a trunk is to grow sacrifice branches from the trunk.

How to create a fused bonsai trunk. 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. Approach grafts are most commonly used to add a branch to a tree by simply securing the two together. Here we start with a series of young saplings which are tied around a supporting cone shaped object.

You pull the tree out of the pot only do this at the beginning of the growing season wash all the soil off the roots and split the trunk from the bottom up with a wood chisel a saw or a rotary tool or a trunk splitter. Growing the bonsai tree in the ground trunk merging growing a sacrificial branch cutting the trunk bend to grow. Plants are grown out in large training pots or in the ground to attain the trunk size and character desired before they ever come near a bonsai pot. Once plants are potted in small containers they.

As they grow and swell the pressure of being firmly secured together forces the two pieces to fuse into one. Let s find out more the most common techniques to thicken a bonsai tree trunk are. Growing the bonsai tree in the ground. The saplings are placed near each other as close as possible and tied tightly with a tape or thin rope.

Of course once the roots are formed then we will change the soil mix to a bonsai one. Splitting the trunk the quickest way to thicken your bonsai trunk is to physically split it down the middle and to use wire to keep the halves separated as the trunk heals. The saplings are placed as tight against each other as possible. Bonsai tree trunks will only thicken up when the tree is growing a lot.

The complete set of young saplings is allowed to grow vigorously so that the thickness of the saplings also increases. Here you will see a technique that will give us a further headstart. After fusion is complete the donor is removed below the graft. I have a large pyracantha bonsai that was trained for twenty years before it finally got its bonsai pot.

Small bonsai do not become large bonsai. Bonsai wire comes in a range of thicknesses from 1mm up to 6mm so you need to choose a wire size appropriate to the thickness of the trunk or branch you wish to wire. The technique involves tying a series of young saplings around a supporting cone shaped object. After the two to three years the branches are removed.