Appreciation of bamboo bonsai and its dwarfing skills

Title: bamboo and stone pictures

Specification: 65 cm

Materials: bamboo, quartz stone

Author: Zheng Yongtai

Zheng Yongtai's bonsai "Bamboo Shadow Music"

Zheng Yongtai's Bonsai on Tao under Takeshita

[feelings of bonsai people]

Text | Xiamen, Fujian @ Zhou Yingzhi

Meeting is only a beginning, cherishing can be accompanied for a lifetime. A person's greatest happiness is to be greeted; the greatest happiness is to be cared for; the greatest moved is to be tolerant; the greatest satisfaction is to be waited for; the greatest extravagant desire is to be understood; don't enjoy life too much, happiness is simple enough; life is not too perfect, happy with no regrets. Whether you are a friend or a loved one, you don't need sweet words, just be honest. There is no need for vows, as long as it is really done!

Yong bamboo in Xinyuan

Photo, text | Zheng Yongtai

Potted plants do not forget Ling Yunzhi

Modesty is still strong.

Do not change the green onion color at 04:00

There is spring in the cold winter garden.

When accompanied by this monarch

Impetuous self-elimination also forget the New year.

Zheng Yongtai bonsai "finding bosom friend"

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Yu Gong Bonsai "Bamboo Pu Stone"

Dwarfing skills of Bamboo Bonsai

Selected varieties: potted bamboo should be small bamboo with narrow leaves and slow growth, such as Buddha belly bamboo, Luohan bamboo, Tetragonal bamboo, Guanyin bamboo, purple bamboo, spotted bamboo, rice bamboo, diamond bamboo and so on.

Shallow pot suitable for planting: bamboo prefers acidic, slightly acidic or neutral soil. The soil in the north is strongly alkaline and 0.2% liquid iron sulfate can be added. Sandy loam with loose and good drainage is selected for basin soil. When transplanting potted bamboo, it is first placed in an ordinary mud basin, after a slow seedling period of 30 to 40 days, and then transplanted to a shallow basin after survival, not too much filling, too much basin soil, and its root system grows too fast, so it is difficult to control the height of bamboo.

Keep new bamboo shoots: the shooting period of potted bamboo is generally from April to September, of which July to August is the peak period, when the number of shoots is large, the internodes are short and stout, and the quality of mature bamboo is good, so it should be selected as far as possible.

Timely water control: bamboo likes to be wet and afraid of stagnant water. After the basin is installed, the water should be watered thoroughly for the first time, and the basin soil should be kept moist and "dry and thoroughly watered" after that. In the new bamboo shoots unearthed and vigorous growth period, properly control watering, keep the basin soil dry, bask in the sun more, control its top growth, make it short and strong. Watering should be carried out before 9 o'clock in the morning and after 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Spray water to the leaves 2 or 3 times a day in hot summer to avoid scorching the leaf tips. Avoid rain and stagnant water on cloudy and rainy days to prevent root rot.

Topdressing should be less: bamboo likes fertilizer, fertilization should be based on organic fertilizer, such as compost, ring manure, green manure. However, topdressing of potted bamboo should be reduced as much as possible, and only thin fertilizer can be used. 0.5% urea and 1% compound fertilizer should be applied in spring and summer. In order to promote the growth of potted bamboo, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer was applied properly in the later stage of growth.

Proper stripping of bamboo shoots: 7 to 10 days after the new bamboo shoots are unearthed, when the height is about 10 cm, one or two bamboo shoots shells can be stripped from bottom to top every other day according to the growth situation, so as to make them mature ahead of time, inhibit growth and promote their dwarfing.

Reasonable shaping: potted bamboo should be short and concentrated, and the number of bamboo shoots is often odd. 3, 5 and 7 bamboo shoots are planted in each pot. Those bamboo shoots with long nodes, improper position and weak growth should be cut off in time. When the remaining bamboo shoots and bamboos reach the ideal height needed for composition, the top tip should be removed to promote the sending of side branches, and the tip should also be removed when the side branches reach a certain height.

(this article is recommended by "Ponyi", and the copyright belongs to the original author.)

Title: tranquil Harbor

Specification: 150 cm

Materials: sparrow plum, tortoise stone

Author: Zheng Yongtai

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