Hu Zhiwei's Bonsai Life and four necessary skills

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Hu Zhiwei's "Bonsai" Life

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Hu Zhiwei, a resident of Hongxing Community, Zhaobaoshan Street, Ningbo City, Zhenhai District, Zhejiang Province, is very "antique". He is not old and likes to collect "old things":"antiques, root art, comic books" and so on, but his biggest hobby: homemade bonsai.

In the chat, the author mentioned bonsai with him, and Mr. Hu Zhiwei said with interest: "It is accidental to have a relationship with bonsai." I remember that in the spring of 1990, I went to the mountain near Xiaogang Town of Beilun with several friends for a outing. I accidentally saw someone looking for beautiful tree stumps on the mountain. I couldn't help but ask curiously. It turned out that this master was running a nursery nearby, looking for beautiful materials for bonsai, and told me some skills for daily bonsai production. so the next year i went up the mountain with a few like-minded friends to look for bonsai materials and started making the first bonsai."

"Ninety years? You've been making bonsai for almost twenty years now. Is it annoying to make bonsai?"

"Fortunately, making bonsai is like a teacher training students. It takes patience. A good bonsai takes more than ten years, or even longer. For example, in the first year after the bonsai material is brought back, it is planted in a pre-dug pit for cultivation, and the germination of the year can only be finalized and tied in autumn. The second year, turn over the pot, and adopt the traditional modeling method, with different thickness of brown silk or iron wire, using "climbing","hanging","pulling","tying" and other techniques, control the structure, and then trim the method gradually thin, so there is a "coarse tie fine shear" said. Regular bonsai generally requires dense and plump branches. The natural bonsai has dense branches and leaves, uneven layers, simple nature, elegant and interesting."

"What kind of tree species do you usually use to make bonsai? How many bonsai are there now?"

"It is best to use miscellaneous trees for bonsai, such as finch plum, elm, sunflower seed boxwood, pine and cypress bonsai. It is best to use five-needle pine and juniper. Of course, podocarpus, triangular plum, and June snow can be used. As for how many bonsai there are, you can count them clearly. About 100 pots. In the past, there were more than 200 pots at most. Later, due to lack of space, many of them were given away one after another. Now, we can only divide them into parts according to local conditions. We can put some on the living room balcony and the green belt of the community. Of course, if there is room, I will definitely make more bonsai."

"Will you continue this hobby?"

"That's for sure. Making bonsai has changed my personality quite a bit. I may have been a little impatient in the past, but I've calmed down a lot in the past few years. I personally understand that this may be the beginning of a 'peaceful life'. Besides, these bonsai are the continuation of a green life. I' serve 'them every day, and they' repay 'me with' spring eyes'. Do you think I'll 'abandon' them?"

Mr. Hu Zhiwei is pruning bonsai

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The growth of trees has the characteristics of top advantage. If the top continues to grow upward without control, it will grow naturally and lose its beauty and ornamental value. In order to keep the stump in a beautiful tree shape in the pot, it must be picked, buds, leaves, pruning.

1. pinching

When tree makeup grows, the branches and buds that tie up will grow naturally and change the shape of the tree at any time, so it must be controlled. When stump branches are sparse, in order to promote axillary bud development and increase branch number, fingers or scissors can be used to remove the growth point at the front end of tender shoots, which can inhibit the dominant growth of top, promote the growth of lateral branches of low branches, and maintain the original posture of stump.

2. bud picking

There are some tree species, stumps of the trunk, trunk, technology often sprout a lot of adventitious buds, such as its growth, not only affect the beauty of the tree, but also consume nutrients, but also hinder air circulation, sunlight transmission, prone to pests, therefore, redundant branches must be removed. The long branches and buds of pomelo on the crown should also be picked short in time. If June snow roots easy to grow a lot of buds, coriander timely cut off or remove; five-needle pine germination should be picked off 2/3 buds; banyan branches bud, pick 2 to 3 pieces, can reduce the leaves, improve the ornamental value.

3. picking off leaves

Stump potted landscape ornamental, there are leaf, stem, flower, fruit, just grow new leaves for the best period of leaf viewing. Some tree stumps can be used to extend their optimal viewing period by removing old leaves. When picking leaves, all leaves should be removed, followed by bud picking and topping. Leaf picking should be carried out during the growth period of trees. After leaf picking, attention should be paid to applying thin fertilizer, keeping the pot soil moist, so that branches and buds sprout normally and grow new leaves. Banyan tree leaves can be picked after Qingming and before white dew. Red maple leaves can be picked in summer and autumn. The leaves will be more red in autumn and winter.

4. pruning

Thin cutting: thin cutting can make plants better light transmission and ventilation, etc., but also can make them better nutrition supply needed branches and leaves. However, if the thinning is improper, it cannot be restored. When thinning branches, do not cut near the trunk. Try to cut them at the position of 2 to 3 buds.

Short shear: Short shear is commonly used in modeling, cutting short the longer branches, but not all of them, so as to maintain the shape of the whole stump, but also to dwarf the overgrown plants and make their trunks more robust.

Branching and trunk cutting: Branching and trunk cutting is generally a pruning method that imitates the tree shape of nature. The shape after pruning is no different from the tree shape of natural growth. This pruning method is generally carried out at the young stage of the tree. When the young stage is the most robust, the trunk is cut and some branches are reserved.

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