Thickening Bonsai Trunk

In this video we are going to show you how to thicken the trunk of your bonsai you will need just some basic tools and of course a bonsai i hope you will like the video and if you do make sure to.
Thickening bonsai trunk. The diameter of the trunk at the lowest point determines the maximum height of the tree. Bonsai tree trunks will only thicken up when the tree is growing a lot. A pine or juniper trunk can also be thickened by using a knife to carve vertical lines through the bark down to the sap layer. The juniper bonsai shown below had a reverse taper at mid trunk which was cured in this manner.
Most often bonsai are grown in a style in which a solid old tree as seen from the ground is simulated. This produces an injury which the tree heals and this produces scar tissue which thickens the trunk. The technique is repeated once every two years to heal the reverse taper. The juniper bonsai is one species that has shown good results when a reverse taper was done mid trunk.
The way to do this is by increasing the above ground biomass in other words the number of leaves and branches. A thick bonsai tree trunk can be achieve with a sacrificial branch trunk merger or the bend to grow technique. Its trunk was cured in this way since it only requires single scarring. Good bonsai will not have inverse taper the trunk getting thicker when moving up in the tree.
Scar tissue will be produced that will lead to the thickening of the trunk. Let s find out more the most common techniques to thicken a bonsai tree trunk are. However it is crucial that this particular technique for thickening the trunk of a bonsai is only applied to trees that are able to recover from such type of a traumatic injury. If the diameter is for instance 5 cm 2 inches the tree can be 6 12 times the.
A rule of thumb is. Cutting back the trunk will result in thickening the trunk of the bonsai tree while also creating a taper. Make your first cut in the location where the trunk is at the desired thickness. This position normally causes a distorted view of the trunk where the tapering is extreme.
In order to provide the plant with enough water and nutrients to sustain massive growth naturally the roots need lots of space to grow.