How To Trim Chinese Elm Bonsai

With it you simply cut along the basic shape.
How to trim chinese elm bonsai. Roots should develop within a few days. Place a fresh cutting in a glass of water. When pruning please use a very sharp pair of scissors or a pair of bonsai pruning scissors. But this alone improves the quality of the chinese elm bonsai significantly in a short time.
Propagate new bonsai trees from cuttings. Take the cuttings using sharp clean scissors. You can grow new chinese elm bonsai trees from 6 inch 15 cm cuttings taken from established trees in the summer. This stops the bonsai getting straggly and out of shape and maintains the shape of the bonsai but also allows it to grow slowly.
How to prune chinese elm bonsai trees. If the bonsai gets out of shape spring and summer are good times to hard prune the chinese elm is great at budding back. Shape the bonsai tree. Use the bonsai pruning shears to cut off dead damaged or weak limbs.
Individual main branches can be worked out somewhat. Due to the very soft wood for pruning an chinese elm bonsai a sharp bonsai scissor is required.