Cultivate five-needle pine bonsai

3. Cultivation techniques of five-needle pine bonsai

3.1 seedling selection

Five needle pine potted plants are usually purchased one to two years old seedlings for cultivation, and then modeling. To choose the ideal five-needle pine seedlings, pay attention to the following matters.

(1) The needles should be shorter: the needles of the five-needle pine are 10 cm long and only 2 cm short. The short five-needle bundle is compact and beautiful than the long five-needle bundle.

(2) needles to green: green and spiritual needles, can be distinguished from black pine or Huangshan pine. Such as needle yellow, lack of needle or color spots are not robust performance of damage.

(3) Rootstock should be thick: thick rootstock, not only will make good growth, but also appear simple, easy to form pile scene.

(4) Scion should be short, branches should be more, and joints should be short: this is conducive to modeling, easy to cultivate into a short and strange tree shape, and enhance its ornamental value.

(5) The interface should be firm, the root system should be developed, and the soil should be more.

3.2 Planting and Pots of Pine with Five Needles

The planting time of five-needle pine is better from late February to early April. The planting time varies according to the temperature of each place. Five-needle pine likes acid sandy soil with good drainage and rich humus. It can be prepared by humus soil, forest moldy soil and sandy soil in the ratio of 4:4:2. If the household consumption is not large, you can buy Clivia soil from flower shop and add appropriate amount of sandy soil to mix thoroughly before use.

General five-needle pine bonsai should not be used too shallow pots, small and medium-sized straight dry, inclined dry, curved dry, jungle type five-needle pine bonsai, often choose medium depth rectangular or oval purple sand pots. If the plant is straight and dry, the basin surface appears empty, it can be decorated with stones or accessories. Cliff-style five-needle pine bonsai, commonly used round or square sign pot. If you plant five-needle pine jungle-style bonsai in a simple and natural cloud pot, it will be more beautiful. Large-scale or giant five-needle pine bonsai, it is difficult to buy a suitable purple sand basin, marble or white marble can be used to chisel the basin, its style, specifications, depth can be determined according to the tree shape, and according to the size of the basin chiseled 2~3 drainage holes, in order to drain the excessive water in the basin in time.

When planting five-needle pine, the root soil should be properly reserved for survival. Before the basin, to cut off dead roots, rotten roots, injured roots, to hinder the shape of the roots should also be cut off, cut off, to cut the mouth coated with sulfonamide ointment, to prevent rosin overflow and bacterial invasion. It should be noted that five-needle pine should not change pots and turn pots too frequently, potted five-needle pine is not old, generally change pots once every 2 to 3 years, and old piles can be turned once every 3-4 years. Such as turning pots too frequently, and do not grasp the time of changing pots, often resulting in the death of the whole plant.

Five-needle pine is vigorous, dark green leaf color, elegant posture, very poetic, is a tree species with high ornamental value. It likes sunshine, warm and dry environment, slightly tolerant of shade, but afraid of low humidity, suitable for loose fertile, slightly acidic soil. Therefore, to cultivate five-needle pine well, we need to do a good job in soil, irrigation, fertilization and illumination.