Fukien Tea Bonsai Pruning

Everything from cultivation maintenance and pruning should be done by someone with experience.
Fukien tea bonsai pruning. To provide the necessary humidity around your fukien tea and to stop watering messes i d recommend a humidity tray to go under your bonsai. What to do after buying bonsai from nursery duration. I ve noticed of the couple months i ve had it that it has a few crossing branches that id like to remove. Root pruning should be done with care because the fukien tea bonsai does not take a great loss of roots well.
Repot the fukien tea in early spring about every two years. As the water evaporates it will provide humidity around the tree. Growing and sculpting a fukien tea tree into a bonsai design is not a project for the beginner. So plan to hide or incorporate large pruning scars in the tree s design.
The outer and bottom most fourth of the tree s root mass should be removed. You can prune this bonsai throughout the year. Its doing really well after i repotted into some in organic bonsai soil akadama lava rock its been pushing lots of new growth and flowering nicely. While it offers many unique characteristics to the bonsai design the fukien tea tree is one of the more difficult varieties to sculpt.
In most cases it is not good to prune back more than one fourth of the tree s root mass. Bass n bonsai 21 390 views. Fill the tray with small pebbles or gravel add water and sit your bonsai pot on top of it. I picked up a carmona fukien tea a couple months ago.
Cut back new shoots to 2 to 3 leaves once they have developed 6 to 8 leaves. A well drained but on the other hand water buffering soil is very important because the fukien tea is sensitive to drought as well as excess wetness. Walmart clearanced fukien tea bonsai tree repotting pruning and styling duration.