Have you ever seen a bonsai the size of a fingertip? How to cultivate it? Fingertip bonsai cultivation method!

Bonsai shapes are strange, but only fingerprint-sized bonsai have you seen it? Xiaobian dare not imagine how to cultivate such a small and lovely bonsai. If you tell you the method, do you dare to plant it? Curious babies can follow Xiaobian to see how to cultivate fingertip bonsai!

Bonsai is a reproduction of strange and beautiful mountains, waters, flowers and grasses in nature. According to the size of bonsai, can be divided into large bonsai, general bonsai and miniature bonsai (palm bonsai), now there is a smaller than the palm bonsai called fingertip bonsai, this kind of bonsai small and exquisite, beyond imagination, lush, with a different scene.

The plant materials selected for fingertip bonsai should have the characteristics of small leaves, thick and short stems, strong adaptability, pruning resistance, easy modeling, easy cultivation and survival, such as June snow, elm, magpie plum, Fujian tea, cape jasmine, small leaf podocarpus, tiger thorn, sunflower seed boxwood, sparrow tongue boxwood, pearl boxwood, broom, etc.

Fingertip bonsai mostly uses quaint purple sand pots or glazed pottery pots. The shape, depth and color of the pots should be coordinated with the plant materials planted in leaf shape, leaf color and flower color, and should be closely coordinated with the posture of the trees.

The source of finger-tip bonsai pile material is mainly obtained by grafting, cuttage, plant division, seedling cultivation and excavation of wild small stumps. The modeling adopts the methods of winding, pruning and root extraction. The operation requires careful and delicate operation, striving for skill and transportation. It is expressed on the branches and trunks, so that the original small trees and twigs present the appearance of "ancient trees" with calm temperament, so that the appearance form and internal temperament are well combined.

Fingertip bonsai is a miniature bonsai, giving people a miniature visual impact, novel shape can decorate the vitality of the room, the current market response is better, interested parents can try cultivation yo!

What is a miniature bonsai? Introduction to the development history of miniature bonsai (picture)

Miniature potted plants are potted plants with small pots and small trees, which are called palm potted plants or miniature potted plants. Specifications: 15~20cm, miniature bonsai structure miniaturization, fine, concise,(shrink dragon into an inch, natural) truly test each pot friend's creative ability, production skills, maintenance level.

Yuan Dynasty, eminent monk Yun travel Quartet, the beauty of nature concentrated in the square inch, it has "some sub-scene"(today known as miniature bonsai), said that the originator of miniature bonsai.

In the 1930s, Mr. Zhou Shoujuan, a horticulturist and writer in China, and Mr. Shen Yuanru, a horticulturist, began to create and cultivate miniature bonsai, dry and Qiu, such as poetry and painting.

At the end of 1940s, Shen Yinchun, son of Shen Yuanru, followed his father and devoted himself to the study of miniature bonsai. He collected miniature pots in Daoguang, Tongzhi and Guangxu years of Qing Dynasty, and did a lot of meticulous and fruitful work for studying the history of miniature bonsai development in China.

in that early 1980s, miniature potted plant art written by Shen Yinchun, a miniature potted plant artist, was publish by Jiangsu Province science and technology publishing house and became the first miniature potted plant art monograph in China. Many countries and regions in the world have organizations and individuals engaged in this art research. French horticulturist Andrew Montagny cultivated a cypress tree 4 years old, less than the thumb high, pot only about 2 cm.

In the 1990s, the development of miniature bonsai art in China has made a great breakthrough. Since the first Chinese bonsai art appraisal, miniature bonsai has been officially included in the appraisal project, entering thousands of households, crossing the country, active in the international cultural and artistic stage, and becoming an important part of China's commodity bonsai export.

Miniature bonsai has become the mainstream of development, favored by people from all walks of life, in recent years, the rapid development of miniature bonsai at home and abroad, popular, rave reviews, miniature bonsai its own characteristics highlight: small body, convenient transportation, smooth communication, Jingxian old state, each pot is an isolated product, regarded as a treasure--, old, middle, young colleagues are playing miniature bonsai.

Miniature bonsai as an art, it is rich in shape, form a unified, harmonious color effect, and in the constraints of outstanding performance, showing its fresh, elegant artistic charm. Miniature bonsai, is the use of plants, rocks as the main material, through artistic conception, the use of exaggeration, concentration and other artistic techniques, do "inch wood has feelings, rubble has sent". Expressed within limits is an outstanding artistic creation. Miniature potted plants are favored by most people, in addition to its many artistic genes, it is important to have its specific artistic language and exquisite skills, which is different from others and unique.

Miniature potted plants cover the world in the palm of the hand and are easy to create on the fingers. Miniature potted plants express the beauty of nature and art in an unconventional way. Although they can only describe a certain part, a certain fragment and a certain posture in a limited space, successful works may make the viewer feel the infinity of indirect existence in the limitation of direct expression.

Miniature bonsai art, with its unconventional changes, creates a novel visual impression and arouses the viewer's desire to explore; it causes symbolism and arouses rational thinking through the potential connotation of finite form, and the triggering force and infection generated therefrom. From narrow to wide, from form to spirit, from shallow to deep, from finite to infinite, it is not only the general performance of the image, but also the performance of the richness of the connotation. The domain of projectile, however, expresses its unique artistic language so freely and incisively. Here art and skill, content and form, wisdom and will, get full harmony and unity; borrow small to show big, with less to see more, from the microscopic to see the macroscopic aesthetic characteristics, difficult and strange, with the smallest area, surprisingly concentrated broad connotation, become the miniature bonsai art personality strong embodiment.

Poetry in the palm of your hand. Miniature bonsai, big but palm, small is placed on the fingertips, so there are "palm poetry painting","finger gardening" laudatory name. Decorate the balcony, window, desk, tea table, Bo ancient shelf, do not leave home, but can enjoy and appreciate the natural interest, satisfy the attachment to nature; it through unexpected, unusual form, bold use of human vision, and produce magical suspense and strong interest. Tiny to almost the limit, but also full of life and vitality, so that the viewer to expand the wings of imagination, fun, philosophy in one, vivid. Many "vulgar and cheap" plant materials, everywhere moss, grass, stone debris, in the miniature bonsai, can not be inferior to become green grass, towering trees, undulating hills and forests.

Miniature bonsai is a kind of four-dimensional space-time expression mode, which is different from miniature sculpture and miniature painting. The change of plant shape and color in different seasons constitutes rich aesthetic landscape. It gives people endless imagination. Pots of miniature bonsai exquisitely carved, flexible, some elegant quaint, some bright pretty, some simple vigorous, some elegant fresh, as if it is a variety of colorful pocket plant kingdom.

Miniature potted landscape display viewing, has a wide range of performance areas, colorful plants, different shapes of pots, a variety of frames, and the composition of these three changes, free, flexible, changeable. Miniature bonsai is also a comprehensive, multi-dimensional art, as if it is also like a vivid "poetry, painting", in which rhythm, color, lines, etc., give people a sense of beauty,"shape in the painting, God Yu like outside." Miniature bonsai as a carrier of feelings, it broke through the limited space, beyond the constraints of external materials and images, to a great extent induced people's imagination; the artistic charm of miniature bonsai lies in this.

How do you teach them how to grow seeds?

Cotoneaster platyphylla is a semi-evergreen creeping shrub, which is born in hillside, ridge shrub or rock crevice above 1000 meters. Branches dense leaves small, red fruit gorgeous, now often cultivated everywhere, suitable for garden cover and production of bonsai. Today's Xiaobian shared with you is how to raise the bonsai of Cotoneaster squamatus. Let's take a look together.

Introduction of Cotoneaster planus

Cotoneaster horizontalis Decne. It is a semi-evergreen creeping shrub with a height of less than 0.5 meters. Branchlets in two rows, strigose when young. Leaf blade suborbicular or broadly elliptic, sparsely obovate, apex acute, base cuneate, entire, glabrous above, sparsely appressed below; petiole pilose; stipules subulate, caducous. Flowers 1-2 terminal or axillary, subsessile, petals pink, obovate, apex obtuse; stamens ca. 12; ovary apically pilose, free. Fruit subglobose, bright red. Floral period may-June, fruiting period 9-October.

Cotoneaster platyphylla grows on hillsides, ridges, bushes, or crevices above 1000 meters above sea level. Distribution in China Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other provinces. It is often cultivated everywhere. Branches dense leaves small, red fruit gorgeous, suitable for garden ground cover and production of bonsai.

I. Morphological characteristics

Branches: Cotoneaster planus is a deciduous or semi-evergreen creeping shrub, not more than 0.5 meters high, branches horizontally open into two neat rows; twigs cylindrical, strigose when young, deciduous when old, black-brown.

Leaves: Cotoneaster planus leaves suborbicular or broadly elliptic, sparsely obovate, 5-14 mm long, 4-9 mm wide, apex mostly acute, base cuneate, entire, glabrous above, sparsely flat-appressed below; petiole 1-3 mm long, pilose; stipules subulate, caducous.

Flowers: 1-2 flowers of Cotoneaster planus, subsessile, 5-7 mm in diam.; calyx tube campanulate, outside sparsely pubescent, inside glabrous; sepals triangular, apex acute, outside pubescent, inside margin pilose; petals erect, obovate, apex obtuse, ca. 4 mm, 3 mm wide, pink; stamens ca. 12, shorter than petals; styles often 3, sometimes 2, free, shorter than stamens; ovary apex pilose.

Fruit: fruit of Cotoneaster planatus subglobose, 4-6 mm in diam., bright red, often 3-nucleulate, sparsely 2-nucleulate.

The flowering period of Cotoneaster planus is from May to June and the fruiting period is from September to October.

II. Ecological habits

Cotoneaster planus likes warm and humid semi-shady environment, resistant to dry and barren land, not resistant to damp and hot, has certain cold resistance, afraid of ponding.

How do you raise a flat branch?

1. Management

The temperature in the shed should be kept at about 28℃, the humidity should be kept above 90%, and water should be sprayed once a day from 8:00 to 9:00 and from 16:00 to 17:00, but the soil should not be too wet, so as to keep the leaves wet. In order to prevent bacterial infection, spray 0.2% carbendazim solution once on the 7th day after insertion for comprehensive disinfection. After 40 days, the seedlings start to be refined, and the seedlings can be transplanted after 5-6 days of refinement.

2. Humidity

Likes humid or semi-dry climate environment, requires the relative air temperature of the growth environment to be 50-70%, when the air relative humidity is too low, the lower leaves are yellowed and shed, and the upper leaves are dull.

3. Temperature

Because Cotoneaster planus originated in subtropical regions, it has strict requirements for winter temperature, and stops growing when the ambient temperature is below 8℃.

4. Light

Strong adaptability to light. When placed indoors, try to put it in a place with bright light. After a period of indoor maintenance (about one month), it is necessary to move it outdoors to a place with shade (insulation conditions in winter) for a period of time (about one month).

5, fertilizer water

For potted plants, in addition to adding organic fertilizer when potting, proper fertilizer and water management should be carried out in the usual maintenance process. In winter dormancy period, mainly do a good job of fertilizer control and water control, the interval period is about 3-7 days, sunny days or high temperature period interval period is shorter, rainy days or low temperature period interval period is longer or no irrigation. For plants planted in the field, fertilizer and water are applied 2-4 times in spring and summer according to drought conditions: first, a small groove is opened 30-100 cm outside the root neck (the larger the plant, the farther away from the root neck), and the width and depth of the groove are 20 cm. Sprinkle 25-50 jin organic fertilizer or 1-5 two-grain compound fertilizer (chemical fertilizer) into the ditch, and then pour permeable water. After winter and before spring, fertilize again according to the above method, but do not water.

6, pruning

In winter, when plants enter dormancy or semi-dormancy period, thin, diseased, dead, over-dense branches should be cut off. Also can combine cuttage to undertake finishing to branch.

7. Change the basin

As long as the maintenance method, it will grow very fast, when it grows to a certain size, we must consider giving it a larger pot to let it continue to grow vigorously. The culture soil and component ratio for changing pots can be one of the following: vegetable garden soil: slag =3:1; or garden soil: medium coarse river sand: sawdust (sludge)=4:1:2; or paddy soil, pond mud, and rotting leaf soil.

Put the flowers to be replaced on the ground, pat the pot around with your palm first, so that the roots are shaken and separated from the pot wall, turn the pot upside down on your left hand, gently clamp the plants with your index finger and middle finger of your left hand, press your wrist and fingertips against the edge of the pot, pat the bottom of the pot with your right hand, and then use your mother finger to push the root soil down from the bottom hole to let the plants come out. After coming out, tap the soil gently with both palms to let the excess soil fall off.

Choose a flower pot of appropriate size, the bottom hole of the pot is covered with two tiles or thin foam pieces, which should ensure that the pot soil is not washed out by water, and the excess water can flow out in time. Tile or foam and then put a layer of ceramsite or broken red brick, as a filter layer, about 2-3 cm thick. The drainage layer is then put with fertilizer machine fertilizer, about 1-3 cm thick, fertilizer and then a thin layer of matrix, about 2 cm thick, to separate the root system and fertilizer, finally put the plant in, fill nutrient soil, about 2-3 cm from the pot mouth can be.

Propagation Mode of Cotoneaster planatus

Cuttings and seed propagation are commonly used in the propagation of Cotoneaster planatus. Spring and summer can be cuttage, summer softwood cuttage survival rate is high.

1. Sowing and breeding

Seeds sown in autumn or stored in wet sand sown in spring. Fresh seeds can be sown immediately after harvesting, and dry seeds should be sown in early spring from January to February. Transplanting should be carried out in early spring, big seedlings need to bring soil balls.

2. Cutting propagation

A cutting bed with width of 2.0m, length of 10m and height of 40cm is prepared in advance, a layer of sweet potato stone with thickness of 20cm is laid on the bottom of the cutting bed, and a layer of fresh river sand or vermiculite or pearlite with thickness of 20cm is laid on the upper layer as cutting substrate, and 0.3% carbendazim solution or 0.3% potassium permanganate solution is selected for substrate disinfection. Then buckle the arch, cover it with plastic film and erect the shade net. Watering keeps the cutting substrate moist.

From the middle of June to the first ten days of July, young shoots with leaves, which are semi-lignified, healthy, disease-free and full of axillary buds, are selected and cut into cuttings of 10-15cm. When cutting ears, the lower cutting mouth is 0.5-1cm at the lower end of the leaf or axillary bud, and the upper cutting mouth is 0.5-1cm at the upper end of the leaf or axillary bud. The terminal bud can also be retained. The upper part of each cutting ear retains 2-3 leaves. The upper cutting mouth is planar, and the lower cutting mouth is horse ear shaped. The cutting mouth is smooth without cracking and peeling. Disinfect with 0.3% carbendazim solution in time. To prevent young shoots from wilting, it is best to gather cuttings in the morning or on rainy days and cut them as they are picked.

Before cuttage, at room temperature without sunlight, the lower 2cm of the cuttings were quickly dipped in 0.1% ABT1 solution. In order to prevent the cutting base from being injured, the cuttings were cut with a slightly thicker wood stake, the plant spacing was 5- 10cm, the cutting depth was 8- 10cm, and the cuttings were put into the cuttings and pressed by hand.

Callus began to form on the 15th day after cuttage, adventitious roots began to form on the 23rd day, callus formation rate was 99%, rooting rate was 84%, the average number of roots per plant was 5-7, and the average root length was 8.5 cm.