Cultivation techniques of Honeysuckle Bonsai

Honeysuckle is a perennial semi-evergreen twining shrub of honeysuckle family. From May to October every year, it gets its name because it turns golden after the flowers are white at the beginning. In most parts of our country, there are natural distribution in plain fertile land, mountainous areas, roadside embankments and other places. In addition to ground planting, it is still a rare good material for viewing flowers and dry bonsai. Let's take a look at the cultivation techniques of honeysuckle bonsai.

Growth habits of Flos Lonicerae

Honeysuckle has strong adaptability, like yang, shade, cold, drought and moisture tolerance, and is not strict with the soil, but it grows best on moist and fertile deep sandy soil and shoots twice every spring and summer. The root system is dense and developed, the sprouting is strong, and the stem can take root as soon as it hits the ground. Like sunshine and mild, humid environment, strong vitality, wide adaptability, cold tolerance, drought tolerance, poor growth in shaded places. Born in thickets or sparse forests on hillsides, rocky piles, hillside roadsides and village fences, up to 1500 meters above sea level.

Pot selection of Flos Lonicerae

Honeysuckle in nature in line with the production of bonsai is not too many, we should try to choose the stump with developed root system, strong stem shape, simple and simple and curved changes, short and compact tree shape, thick and short internodes, natural shrinkage transition. Cultivating bonsai of honeysuckle can also plant short and easy flowering seedlings of honeysuckle in places where the soil layer is deep, loose and fertile, etc., and can be cultivated in pots when the ideal thickness is reached, so that you can watch and pick flowers at ordinary times. and you can get a more ideal honeysuckle pile and get more with one stone.

Cultivation and management of honeysuckle

1. Bonsai planting: honeysuckle bonsai can be planted all the year round, especially in late autumn and early winter. In order to make honeysuckle bonsai grow well, honeysuckle which has been cut alive can be planted in an ornamental basin suitable to the size of pile head in late autumn and early winter, and then cultivated with prepared fertile humic loam, covered with green moss, and then watered to facilitate survival.

2. Pruning and shaping: honeysuckle bonsai can be pruned and shaped before sprouting from winter to the next year. According to bonsai modeling, there are generally 3-5 main branches, each branch has 2-3 buds, and all other branches are cut off, which is the key to ensure rapid shaping. In addition, pruning and shaping must be carried out in time combined with fertilization after each flower shedding, in order to achieve the ornamental effect of blooming many times.

3. Wiping buds and picking the heart: honeysuckle bonsai should timely erase the overgrown branches and buds that grow vigorously and tangled around trees in the future, and firmly control the overgrown branches and buds in the process of growth. It is necessary to erase the thin branches and buds that are unable to bloom in the future, so as not to affect their ventilation and light transmission. Leave only the buds of ordinary growing branches that can blossom normally, usually cut off at about 20cm after forming branches, most of the branches can be flowered, and there are many flowers. For individual long branches that affect the shape of the tree, you can first pick the heart to ensure that the shape of the tree is compact, ventilated and transparent, without any winding branches.

4. Fertilizer and water management: Honeysuckle bonsai can grow normally under the condition of sufficient fertilizer and water, but it can not grow laissez-faire. During this period, it is necessary to flexibly control the timely buckling of water according to its growth, control the tree shape, increase the number of flowers, prevent excessive growth, promote the maturity of stem vines, shorten internodes and dwarf plant shape. Generally speaking, in addition to applying rotten cake fertilizer once a week, 0.2% potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution is also used for foliar spraying for 2 or 3 times, little or no nitrogen fertilizer is applied before flower bud formation, and phosphorus and potassium fertilizer is added. After the branches stop growing, appropriate nitrogen fertilizer is applied in the bud stage to promote the flowers to be large and gorgeous.

5. pest control: honeysuckle bonsai is basically free of diseases and insect pests in the process of cultivation, and a few plants suffer from brown spot and powdery mildew, often pick up dead branches and leaves, increase phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, and improve plant disease resistance. at the initial stage of the disease, 65% zinc wettable powder 500 times solution was sprayed or half-dose Bordeaux solution was used for control. Insect pests include inchworms and buds that feed on tender leaves, coffee tiger longicorn beetles that eat branches and vines, and so on, which are often sprayed with 0.1% fenitrothion or 95% crystal trichlorfon. If the number of pots is small, it is better to hunt and kill manually, which is simple, economical, practical and pollution-free.