Culture method of Maple Bonsai

Maple is a famous landscape tree, tree shape, beautiful and moving, is an excellent material for making bonsai, production of maple bonsai in addition to processing methods, more important is the choice of tree shape and the original natural form, and it takes a certain amount of time to shape, each pot of maple bonsai should have its own characteristics, let's take a look at the cultivation method of maple bonsai!

Maple Bonsai Tree Making

Maple wild a lot, making bonsai more to the mountains to dig old piles or young trees, new branches are longer and soft, can be coiled into a variety of styles of bonsai, common have straight dry, inclined dry, curved dry, double dry, Linshui type and jungle type, modeling to pruning mainly, coiled as a supplement, leaves are larger, not suitable for making clouds or cloud-like, and often the branches and leaves are trimmed into high and low coordination, density appropriate natural type, after frost, maple leaves turn red, bright and attractive.

Pots for planting maple bonsai

1. Planting: Maple trees should be planted in February to March before spring germination. Before planting, branches and roots should be pruned once. At the same time, half of the old soil should be removed and replaced with new soil, and decomposed bean cake should be applied at the bottom of the pot as base fertilizer. Maple likes loose, fertile and moist soil, and grows poorly in barren land. Maple can be planted with 2/3 humus soil and 1/3 sand mixed.

2, with pots: most maple leaves in late autumn after frost, from green to red, so pay attention not to use red, green purple sand pots or glazed pottery pots. Jungle-style maple bonsai can be white marble or marble shallow basin, the basin soil processing into uneven natural mountain shape, if placed in the appropriate part of the basin surface a few moire stone or Yingde stone, dotted with a few characters or animals small ornaments, it will make the life atmosphere of bonsai more dense.

Maple Bonsai Conservation and Management

1. Site: Maple trees like shady and cool environment, avoid strong direct sunlight, so bonsai should be placed under shade or under other trees for maintenance. If placed under strong light or balcony, scorched leaves often appear. Due to poor indoor ventilation, maple potted plants should not be placed indoors for more than a week, otherwise it will be detrimental to growth. In winter in the north, maple potted plants should be moved into low temperature rooms, and in the south, as long as the pots are buried in leeward sunny soil, they can safely overwinter.

2, watering: maple leaves large, water evaporation fast, in the growing season, to water frequently, in the hot weather, should often sprinkle water to the ground to keep the microclimate moist. Winter maple enters dormant period, want to water less, want basin soil to be wet only can not irrigate.

3, fertilization: spring maple before germination and leaf exhibition, should be applied once decomposed thin organic liquid fertilizer, but do not fertilize in rainy days, August to September to apply a decomposed thin liquid fertilizer, winter dormancy period do not fertilize.

4, shaping: maple germination is strong, often grow new buds on the trunk, all the buds and over-dense branches that are not needed for modeling should be cut off in time, which not only saves nutrients, but also facilitates ventilation and light transmission. The best viewing period of maple is when the new leaves are just unfolded. If all the leaves are removed at the end of summer and a decomposed thin liquid fertilizer is applied, new leaves can grow in about 20 days, which adds another best viewing period.

5, disease prevention: maple common diseases are brown spot disease and powdery mildew, disease occurs with 50% carbendazim WP 800~1000 times spray, spray once every 10~15 days, continuous spray 2~3 times. The main pests were yellow thorn moth and Anoplophora glabripennis. The control methods of S. aurantii were generally concentrated in late autumn and early spring, or spraying 50% fenitrothion emulsion 1000 times solution at the early stage of larva emergence. To the eggs and larvae which have not yet been eaten into xylem, 50% fenitrothion EC 150 times solution can be sprayed on the larvae of tree trunk, and to the young trees which are seriously damaged, it is better to burn them from the base, or to inject 40% dimethoate EC 100~200 times solution into the wormhole, and then plug the hole with soil.