Planting technique of cedar

Selection of pots: purple sand pottery basin or glazed pottery basin is suitable for cedar. Cedar can use slightly acidic sandy loam with loose soil and good drainage. Soil: matured pastoral soil or rotten leaf soil is often used in potted plants. Planting: cedar is suitable from March to April in spring and after autumn. Cedar seedlings dug from the ground must take shelter in the soil to facilitate survival. And cut the withered roots.

Planting technique of cedar

1. Selection basin: purple sand pottery basin or glazed pottery basin should be used for cedar. Large bonsai can use a deep round basin, can also use a variety of stone basins, but must be fixed with wire. Medium-sized bonsai is appropriate to use crabapple-shaped, manger-shaped basin, small seedlings can be planted in the jungle type can be used bauxite or marble and other chisel shallow basin.

2. Using soil: cedar can use slightly acidic sandy loam with loose soil and good drainage. Pots are often used to mix mature pastoral soil or rotten leaf soil with sand.

3. Planting: it is suitable for cedar from March to April in spring and after autumn. Cedar seedlings dug from the ground must take shelter in the soil to facilitate survival. And thinning the withered roots, stretching the fibrous roots, covering them with fine soil, gently shaking the bowl and compacting them with bamboo sticks to make the potted soil and roots firm. The planting position of the trunk should be skewed to one side.

4. Processing: the processing shape of cedar bonsai is mainly climbing, combined with pruning as a supplement. It is appropriate to climb in winter and spring, and brown silk is mostly used for climbing. Cedar trunk stands, side branches spread, so most of the side branches are bent into S shape, the trunk is generally not bent, naturally upward into a big tree, the posture is very simple and beautiful. Can also take the same year born seedlings 5-7, high and low scattered, co-planted into a jungle type, branches and leaves whirling, do not have charm.

5. Tree shape: the cedar tree is tall and straight, and the side branches are flat and stretched. Bonsai production must make use of its natural form, the tree shape to straight dry type, double dry type, oblique dry type, jungle type is better. Branches and leaves through tie-cut, can be made into layers or clouds, maintenance for many years, can become a rigid and soft storage, elegant bonsai.