Bonsai price and culture method of Luohansong

The bonsai trees of Luohan pine are lush and elegant, ancient and vigorous, and the leaves are bright green all the year round, with a sense of vitality and nobleness. If attached to mountains and stones, the posture of holding stone with eagle claws is more quaint and chic, and the scenery of bamboo and stone groups is extremely elegant. If cultivated properly, it can last for decades or even a hundred years. Let's take a look at the price and breeding methods of bonsai of Luohan pine.

How much is the bonsai of Luohansong?

There are many factors affecting the price of Luohan pine bonsai, such as a few hundred yuan a pot, a good few thousand yuan or even tens of thousands of yuan. The ornamental value of Luo Han Song bonsai is very high, elegant and straight, and it has a strong and vigorous momentum, coupled with the implication of "longevity" and "auspiciousness" in Chinese culture. owners who pursue high-grade courtyard beautification often like to raise one or two pots of lohan pines, adding ingenuity to create their own "garden-style tales".

The method of making bonsai of Luohansong

1. Propagation: the sowing of Siraitia grosvenorii can be carried out in August, usually in the open nursery bed, sowing with picking, covering straw, paying attention to shading and keeping the substrate moist. Cutting propagation can be carried out in spring and autumn, in the middle of March in spring and from July to August in autumn.

2. Potting: Luohansong usually goes to the basin before germination in spring, and the basin soil should use slightly acidic sandy loam with loose texture and good drainage. Because Luohansong's posture is simple and elegant, it is suitable to choose purple sand basin or glazed pottery basin, and the shape of the basin is determined by the shape of the tree.

3. Modeling: the modeling of Luo Han Song is mostly carried out in the dormant period, mainly in flat tie, supplemented by pruning, with various shapes. The common forms are curved dry type, oblique dry type, horizontal cloud type, cliff type and root type, etc., and the branches and leaves can be trimmed into flaky or steamed bread shape.

Culture method of bonsai of Luohansong

1. Venue: Luohansong family potted plants should be kept in an outdoor ventilated place all the year round, not indoors for a long time, otherwise the leaves will fall off and die, and the high temperature in summer should not be exposed to the sun, and should be kept in a semi-shady place for maintenance.

2. Watering: Luohansong likes moist soil, so it should be watered frequently during the growing season to keep the basin soil moist, but the basin can not be waterlogged, and water is often sprayed to the leaves or the ground in summer, and the moisture can be reduced appropriately in autumn and winter.

3. Fertilization: Luohansong only needs to apply nitrogen-based topdressing for 1-2 times in spring and autumn, but it is not suitable to apply more fertilizer in the growing season. Mature thin liquid fertilizer is applied every other month in the growing season, and no more fertilizer is applied after autumn.

4. Temperature: Luohansong leaves the room when the outdoor temperature is about 10 ℃, moves to a semi-shady place after summer, enters the room when the temperature drops to 5 ℃ in winter, and controls watering after entering the room, so that it can survive the winter safely without freezing.

5. Pruning: Luohansong should be pruned frequently to maintain the shape of the tree. When blooming, it is best to remove the buds in time so as not to consume nutrients. For the modeled bonsai, attention should be paid to heart-picking and pruning to prevent branches and leaves from growing, so as to maintain the original posture.

6. Insect pests: Luohan pine is mainly harmful to leaf spot and anthracnose. It is sprayed with 50% methyl thiophanate wettable powder, which is harmful to shell insects, red spiders and large coir moth, and can be sprayed with 1500 times omethoate EC.

7. Change the basin: Luohansong generally changes the basin every 2 years, either in spring or autumn. When changing the basin, pay attention to cut off the excessive root system and rotten fibrous root properly, cut off the overdense branches and add new culture soil at the same time.

Matters needing attention of Luohansong bonsai

1. Anti-apprenticeship: during the growth of Luohansong, attention should be paid to pruning and heart-picking of the molded plants to prevent the growth of branches and leaves, and to maintain the graceful posture of Luohansong, generally in the spring and autumn growth period.

2. Frostbite prevention: Luohansong should move indoors when the outdoor temperature drops to 5 ℃ in winter. After entering the room, control watering and stop fertilization. In case of continuous severe frost, it should be temporarily moved to the sunny warm place to avoid leaf tip freezing.

3. Pest prevention: the pots of Luohan pine should be placed on a high platform or stone, so that insects such as ants and earthworms can be drilled into the flowerpot from the bottom hole of the flowerpot, harming the plant.

4. Anti-rotting roots: it is better to dry the pot soil slightly in the growing season, if too much watering will lead to rotten roots and yellow leaves, serious will lead to a large number of leaves falling off, and the plant will eventually die.