Cutting A Bonsai Tree

Generally spring and summer are the best times to cut off and plant cuttings.

Cutting a bonsai tree. Place your cuttings into the medium. Use a dibble stick stupid name a pencil or chop stick is just fine to create a hole. Prune for structure and style from november to february. Using the cutting method is faster than growing the plant from seeds.

From cutting to bonsai. Some hardwood cuttings can be prepared and planted after their growth season late summer. Before we start propagating trees from cuttings let s look at the stages of development of young trees first. 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.

1 trim your bonsai tree as you would normally placing the trimmings into a bowl of water as they fall. The optimal size for most trees is five or six nodes long. Cutting branches to shape your tree. Thin out the.

Doing structural and stylistic pruning 1. Cut back large branches. With rooting catalyzed and good care the bonsai tree cutting grows into a tree quickly and establishes itself faster than you may expect. Advantages of growing a bonsai tree from a branch.

Without doubt the most important way to train a bonsai is to prune it on a regular basis. Essentially there are two different techniques. Large branches that protrude from the tree can be removed as can branches with unnatural. Read the bonsai tree species guide for timing.

The temptation is just to poke the cuttings into the sand and in most cases this would be fine but it does damage the base of the cutting you have so lovingly prepared and pushes off most of the rooting hormone.