How To Grow Juniper Bonsai From Cuttings

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How to grow juniper bonsai from cuttings. Propagate your juniper successfully following these steps. How to cheap and easy bonsai tree using walmart nursery specimen blue rug juniper duration. Cutting involves taking branches from a healthy tree and placing it into soil to create a new tree. Additionally the cutting method is the most popular for bonsai tree developers and is one that will create high quality trees.
Water the juniper the day before you plan to start the cutting so the branch has plenty of water in it. It is possible to take larger cuttings as well but the chance of getting them to root is slim. Use a dibble stick stupid name a pencil or chop stick is just fine to create a hole. 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.
I ve done it successfully it takes a long period to root as 6 to 9 months depends on the health of the cuttings and some easy tricks. 3 dip the cuttings in some rooting hormone if. 1 trim your bonsai tree as you would normally placing the trimmings into a bowl of water as they fall. The size of the cuttings should be about about 2 4 tall 5 10 cm and 2 5 mm thick.
Bass n bonsai 311 377 views. 2 remove the leaves from the bottom two leaf nodes of the cutting. Place your cuttings into the medium. Just lightly pinch the branch and slide your fingers.