Banyan bonsai making method

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 by pruning, pruning, hanging and grafting to make it a unique artistic shape. It has the morphological characteristics of beautiful roots, beautiful roots, beautiful branches, beautiful skin color, beautiful leaves and beautiful fibrous roots. Let's take a look at the production methods of banyan bonsai together.

stump selection

Banyan potted tree stump selection is the easiest and most commonly used is to select natural wild piles. Wild stumps were collected from February to October every year, especially from April to July, when the climate was mild, the air was humid, the stumps took root and germinated quickly, and the survival rate was high. After collecting wild piles, they should be treated as soon as possible, cut and selected according to pile materials and cultivation objectives. The banyan tree has strong vitality, wounds heal quickly, and pile cutting can be done in one step.

bonsai soil

The cultivation soil of banyan bonsai is generally required to be loose, permeable and acidic black stone powder mud, river sand, stone powder for construction, cinder, etc., and these cultivation soils are relatively easy to obtain.

water demand

Banyan bonsai cultivation to cultivate soil cover the roots can be inserted trees to a depth of about 3 inches is appropriate. Drench with root-fixing water and place in a cool, leeward place for maintenance. Cover the ground with shade. Watering can be determined according to weather conditions, keep the culture soil moist and not waterlogged, too much waterlogging easily causes root blackening necrosis. After survival of the fig long-term waterlogging, easy to cause only long roots do not grow branches. Three dog days two or three days do not water, trees will not die, but a watering, leaves will wither off, affecting growth, therefore, water management should see dry see wet.

illumination requirement

Banyan bonsai should generally be placed in a ventilated and transparent place, with a certain space humidity, insufficient sunlight, poor ventilation, and no certain space humidity, which can make the plant yellow and dry, resulting in pests and diseases until death.

bonsai pruning

Pruning is a means of banyan modeling. By pruning can achieve the purpose of making banyan shape beautiful. Prune trees in time. Banyan trees can generally be pruned in all seasons. In the actual maintenance modeling, shear is the main method, binding is the auxiliary method, cutting is appropriate once a year, the vigorous growth can be cut twice, and the branches grown from the short branches can be cut again. The specific methods of fig pruning are picking, stripping buds, picking leaves, cutting short, shrinking and thinning.

Fertilization for potted plants

Banyan tree is a kind of tree species that likes water and fertilizer, and can endure drought and humidity. After the stump enters normal care, it is topdressing with decomposed human and animal dung or cooked cake fertilizer, and it is applied once or twice a day. Transplanting or changing pots, but also available retting chicken manure, bean cake, bone meal mixed into the culture soil as base fertilizer. Sufficient fertilizer will make the branches grow fast and thick, and the number of pruning times per year will be more, so as to shorten the cultivation period.