Starting A Bonsai From A Cutting

Don t make your cut too close to a notch in the bark or a leaf in the case of a mini jade.
Starting a bonsai from a cutting. 1 trim your bonsai tree as you would normally placing the trimmings into a bowl of water as they fall. 2 remove the leaves from the bottom two leaf nodes of the cutting. First get some very sharp shears and make sure they are clean and disinfected. This video is about about taking cuttings from a 35 year old nagasaki crab apple tree.
Just lightly pinch the branch and slide your fingers. I take my juniper cuttings early to mid autumn when the wood has firmed up just enough and the heat of summer has. Mike had grown it from a sapling. But first six images of a criptomeria tree that was grown from seed into bonsai over the course of 15 years.
Next take your cutting and remove any leaves that are within 2 inches of the cut end. Growing bonsai from seed or from cuttings will be a test of your patience but it is a great way to style bonsai trees without the need to prune thick branches which is often inherent to styling yamadori or nursery stock. I acquired the tree from mike jones of bonsai passion a few years ago.