How To Maintain A Bonsai Fig Tree

Prune your ficus bonsai tree regularly to provide shape and training.
How to maintain a bonsai fig tree. Of course if you live in an area where temperatures drop below 68 degrees your little tree should be grown indoors. Though most online bonsai shops sell ready mixed soils doing this yourself will save money and enables you to adjust mixtures per tree species. The above ground and underground portions of your bonsai tree will need to be kept in relative proportion. Consider the balance of the branches with the roots for a.
This process is ideally completed in the early months of its growing season. During a thorough. Low maintenance ginseng ficus is a low maintenance bonsai that can be grown indoors or outdoors. As a general rule avoid removing more than 25 percent of the tree s total mass of roots.
Weeping fig ficus benjamina often develops aerial roots. Remove some of the bonsai tree s roots. After untangling the roots prune back some of the longer ones to keep the tree from outgrowing its pot. At this point you should also remove any roots that appear to be rotting.
If you need help identifying your tree try our bonsai tree identification guide. Trim new growth to shape the tree. Specific bonsai care guidelines for the ficus bonsai. It can be kept outside in summer if temperatures are above 15 degrees c 59f and it needs lots of light full sun is ideal in the house as well as outside if the tree is exposed to the ultraviolet radiation gradually or if it is defoliated before placing the tree outside.
In this clip i show how i trim my ficus benjamina. Benjamina is notorious for die backs at least in my experience and i get feedback from others who have benjaminas. One of the biggest killers of bonsai is watering either under or over watering ensure the soil is moist and do not allow it to dry out. My benjamina is due for.
Using the right soil mixture for your bonsai trees is crucial. Pruned ficus will bleed a white sap. Make sure that you occasionally trim back the root system of the tree to prevent it from growing too vigorously. I show you how to prune the ficus and i work on a multitude.
Pinching back thin leggy branches helps ficus varieties maintain a fuller shape. This quick growth can force you to prune more often than you d like which can expose the plant to infection and rot. This helps the tree to maintain is small size. Your pruning schedule should include trimming of the roots branches and stems.