Bonsai is a wonderful hobby to enjoy for a lifetime. However, when most people start, most of their bonsai trees get sick and die within weeks. Bonsai are extremely sensitive to their conditions and needs to learn the guardian how to properly care for them, these plants beautiful and attractive. Here are some frequently asked questions about the care of bonsai, and their answers.
Q: What about choosing the right container, and shouldhave drain holes?
A: All containers have one or more drainage holes, otherwise the trees are not good, you will soon see the ill and eventually die.
Q: What percentage of the tree and the container with you?
A: What is generally regarded as the ideal or artistic content of the structure is 80% and 20% of the container, shrubs or dwarf trees or low uptake, the plant by 60% and 40% of the container. In general, the smaller containers are better.
In a flat or elongatedelliptical tank should be planted the tree at a point 70% of the distance between the far right or left, depending on the distribution and shape of the branches, so that most of the trees in the countryside, centered relative to the container . In a bowl, square or round, the plant is at the center, except cascade forms, these are planted on the edge.
Q: I need information on pruning, theory and practice.
A: Both pruning pruning their roots and branchesimportant elements in the care of bonsai. The constant renewal or re-growth of roots is essential to the health of its trunk and branches above the ground. The root system only be healthy if cut properly. This process is associated with the transplant, and a detailed description, which is free of charge from http://www.BonsaiTreeGuide.com - the basic rule of pruning in the main root system is kept "happy" in the small scale ofContainer.
Q: Suppose I find a tree 3 meters in height in a low-growing nursery business that healthy arts and other qualities that would make a good bonsai. Should I buy it?
A: Yes, but I understand that they need special cultivation. When you come home with him (assuming it was balled and bur-lapped at the nursery), here are the steps:
1) pot in a container large enough so as not to disturb the root ball. This can be a big pot of clay or a small business of woodBath. Better yet, a square or rectangular container 6 to 8 inches high and wide enough to accommodate the root ball. Fill in with additional soil around the root ball and press firmly. Leave an inch at the top of the container to facilitate adequate irrigation.
2) A tree is 3 feet high is too high for a good bonsai. Cut the end of 1.5 meters (approximately). The cut just above a side branch, which can then be connected to the end position.
3) After 2 years ofContainers, with an adequate and continuous cutting of lateral branches and wiring, as required, if the tree in a small container, is shallower and smaller in diameter to be transplanted. After a year or two in the smaller container, to a still smaller authentic bonsai pot, transplant, and you are on your way!
Q: If a small strip of water the trees as much as possible?
A: Bonsai should always be bone dry ordinary ornamental plants in pots, but if the objectfor dwarf trees or to put them to the shadows, there is no use to them dry. The lack of water makes only stunted or unhealthy.
If there is such a thing as a fundamental principle of irrigation bonsai, is this: the water freely, but be sure that the soil flows in abundance. In most cases, no matter how many times a day bonsai are watered if the soil has perfect drainage and does not cover the minimum excess water.
This basic principle can be modified to satisfy hisIndividual cases are available depending on soil type, climate, types of trees grown, the containers can be used, and the day whenever a replacement part for bonsai.
Q: What do I need to know about winter care?
A: Winter is characterized by the plants resistant and non-resistant or race.
Resistant plants are those that can live outdoors in the coldest winter season without danger of killing. They are not indoor plants, outdoor plants, but they are real. Hardy Bonsai SpeciesThe containers are a particular problem if they are outside in freezing winter weather. Freezing of the soil in the containers and the containers will break. In addition, it is impossible to properly water bonsai grow in frozen ground.
If a terrace or a cold but bright room available, where the night temperature is never below about 36 degrees Celsius, it would be a good place for wintering hardy or semi-resistant bonsai.
Here's another suggestion for wintering hardy orsemi-hardy bonsai in a freezing climate: Keep it in an isolated deep cold frame. Should be shaded by a lath house. The soil in pots bonsai, with this protection, you should never freeze if the night temperatures are not watered well below 0 degrees F. The bonsai as it should be necessary, and the warm days of winter cold, is to remove the protective cover to go and give in air. Be sure to replace the fascia that covers before sunset!
Many species or race-resistantTraining as a bonsai should be treated as houseplants, and left standing in the rain.
Just follow these few tips to ensure that your bonsai trees stay healthy and attractive for the next decades. But, as with most hobbies and skills, the experience of being the ultimate teacher.
