The latest method of making banyan bonsai

Banyan bonsai is famous for its "single tree forest". In the process of production, it needs to control its growth and development for a long time through pruning, pruning, hanging, grafting and other methods to make it a unique artistic model. with air root beauty, branch beauty, skin beauty, leaf beauty, beard root beauty and other morphological characteristics, let's take a look at the banyan bonsai production method!

Stump selection

The most convenient and commonly used selection of banyan bonsai stakes is the selection of natural wild stakes. The collection time of wild stump is from February to October every year, of which April to July is the most suitable, during this period, the climate is mild, the air is humid, the stump takes root and germinates quickly, and the survival rate is high. After the wild piles are collected, they should be dealt with as soon as possible, and cut and choose according to the pile materials and training objectives. The banyan tree has strong vitality, the wound heals quickly, and the cutting pile can be put in place in one step.

Bonsai soil

The general requirements for the cultivation of banyan bonsai soil are loose and acidic black stone silt, river sand, building stone powder, cinder and so on, and these cultivated soils are easy to obtain.

Water demand

The banyan bonsai is cultivated to cover the roots of the banyan tree, and the depth of the tree is about 3 inches. After dripping with fixed root water, place it in a cool leeward place for maintenance, and cover the ground with shade. Watering can be determined according to the weather conditions, keep the culture soil moist and unsoiled, too much waterlogging is easy to cause root blackening and necrosis. After survival, the banyan tree is waterlogged for a long time, which is easy to cause only roots but not branches. If the tree is not watered for two or three days in dog days, the tree will not die, but as soon as it is watered, the leaves will wither and fall off, affecting growth. Therefore, the management of water should be dry and wet.

Lighting demand

Banyan bonsai should generally be placed in a ventilated and transparent place, there should be a certain space humidity, the sun is not sufficient, ventilation is not smooth, there is no certain space humidity, can make the plant yellow, dry, leading to the occurrence of diseases and insect pests, until death.

Bonsai pruning

Pruning is a means of modeling banyan trees. The beautiful shape of the banyan tree can be achieved by pruning. Pruning should be timely and suitable for the tree. Banyan trees can be pruned all the year round. In the actual maintenance modeling, it is mainly to be cut, supplemented by binding, it is appropriate to cut once a year, the strong and dynamic cutting can be done twice, and the forked branches to be cut short will be cut again after being stout. The specific methods of banyan pruning are heart-picking, bud peeling, leaf-picking, truncation, shrinking and thinning, and so on.

Bonsai fertilization

The banyan tree is a tree species that likes great water and fertilizer, and can endure both drought and humidity. After the stump entered the normal nursing, the rotten human and animal feces and urine or compost cake fertilizer were used as topdressing and applied outside the root once or twice a day. When transplanting or changing pots, you can also use cooked chicken dung, bean cake and bone powder mixed with culture soil as base fertilizer. Sufficient fertilizer will make the branches grow faster and thicker, and can be pruned more times a year, so as to shorten the culture period.