Japanese Pepper Bonsai

Bonsai generally need to be watered every couple of days but there is no set schedule.

Japanese pepper bonsai. The chinese pepper is a subtropical tree with small paripinnate leaves which is very common as indoor bonsai. It is the actual species that is used for producing schechwan pepper corns. It has glossy dark green pinnate leaves which turn yellow in autumn. A recent introduction it is easy to keep although it does shed its leaves in winter.

An old bonsai watering trick is to place the entire pot in a sink of water an inch or two deep. The pepper tree is a most unusual indoor bonsai. The tree blooms in april to may forming axillary flower clusters about 5mm and yellow green in color. Check your pepper daily by sticking your finger into the soil.

Akadama japanese soil for free. They like a bright position. There will be a reason why your pepper trees are struggling. Pepper tree bonsai are both hungry and thirsty bonsai so please keep them well watered but not soggy.

When the topsoil feels dry water thoroughly and deeply. In early summer greenish yellow flowers appear and these are followed by tiny red berries. Fruiting cayenne chilli bonsai all of our bonsai chillis are planted in ceramix bonsai pots unless specified and in a mix of john innes as recommended and used by leading bonsai experts. The leaves are aromatic deep glossy green in the summer and turns to gold in the autumn.

We feed them weekly with a liquid bonsai fertiliser. It must be protected from temperatures below 10 c 50 f. With urban expansion and yard sizes and gardens having to be kept at a minimum having bonsai can be a great alternative several trees set out in a courtyard evokes the feeling of calm and tranquil while pruning and shaping your little trees sometimes almost puts you in a meditative state as you lock out the outside world and focus purely on creating a living art form. We keep our pepper tree bonsai at a minimum of 12 13 oc at night and a minimum of 18oc during the day.

Chinese pepper xanthoxylum piperitum care guide for the chinese pepper bonsai tree. Japanese pepper bonsai the chinese pepper which is also called sichuan pepper grows in many parts of asia and is especially common in the himalaya japan and korea. It is dioecious and the flowers of the male plant can be consumed as hana sanshō while the female flowers yield berries or peppercorns of about 5mm. Do not water the tree if the soil is damp or cool.

Zanthoxylum piperitum the japan pepper is a deciduous tree which means it will shed it leaves during the winter.