Daily maintenance skills of Finch Plum Bonsai

Sparrow plum is a kind of tree species that is very suitable for making bonsai. It has been used as a material for making bonsai since ancient times. Bonsai like Finch plum is a very common species in bonsai. It can not only be appreciated as bonsai, but its fruit can also be eaten, sour and sweet. Many people do not know how to maintain the sparrow plum bonsai after they have cultivated it. After the bonsai is put on the pot, it needs to be maintained often, otherwise it will not look good, and there will be a lot of problems. Below, Shuai Shuai will introduce some conservation skills of Finch plum bonsai to you!

Finch plum bonsai should increase its watering frequency and water quantity during its peak growing season, so as to meet the water demand of its growth, and then choose nitrogen fertilizer as far as possible. If you apply concentrated fertilizer, it will certainly make its soil over-nutritious or too nutritious, easy to rot roots, then Shuai Shuai will further introduce it to you!

1. Water

For plants, water is a very important growth factor. No matter what kind of water we use, it is best to use river water, natural water, pond water or Rain Water. If you are using tap water, you need to leave it there for a day or two and let the chlorine in it be used again after volatilization. This can reduce the damage caused by chemicals to plants, because chlorine is toxic. In addition, bath water, laundry water and dirty water containing oil and other sundries should not be watered for convenience and water saving. This is absolutely not advisable, otherwise it will make bonsai grow deformed or even die.

II. Fertilization

Fertilization is a technical activity. If the branches and leaves of bonsai grow excessively, once they are short of fertilizer, the branches will become thin and the leaves will turn yellow, which will lead to a sharp decline in plant immunity and disease resistance. as a result, the plant is vulnerable to diseases and insect pests, and there are rules and methods in fertilization, such as some newly planted and potted plants and those whose roots have been damaged in a short time. Fertilizer should be applied at least after a month. Fertilizer should be appropriately reduced in autumn and winter. Fertilizer should be stopped in winter. Fertilizer should not be applied when it rains or noon. It is best to limit the time of fertilization to evening or evening.

Third, basin soil

For Finch Plum bonsai, because Finch Plum originally grew in the wild areas of the subtropics, its root system is very developed and drought-resistant, but it is not very cold-resistant, so it is best to choose flower mud with good drainage in the basin soil. the bonsai should be maintained very carefully when conserving, the basin soil should be thicker, and the soil should be changed once every two years, in order to make the soil more fertile. You can put some base fertilizer in the soil to make the bonsai grow better and ensure its adequate nutrition.

4. Pruning

Pruning is mainly to choose a good time, although sparrow plum is a kind of plant that is very resistant to pruning, but we should also pay attention to the frequency and interval of pruning. The timing of pruning is mainly in the late spring and early autumn. During these two periods, its stump is the strongest and its growth is the most prosperous. We should cut off some unfavorable branches when pruning, such as long branches, overlapping branches, cross branches and withered branches. These are the objects we want to cut. What we should pay attention to here is that when trimming, we should first move indoors if the sun is too strong, because the cut will be burned by strong light, so it will be sprouted in the shade and then moved to the previous position.

V. Pest control

The pest of this stump is mainly longicorn beetles, and longicorn beetles are also called drillworms. After biting the bark of Finch plum, the female longicorn beetles will lay their eggs on the branches and keep eating them as soon as they hatch. When they grow into adults, they will enter the trunk and heart of the trees. Slowly, Finch plums will be eaten empty and withered by insects, so when we control pests, we can locate its position according to its excrement. Then you can insert thin iron wire into the punch and stab it to death, or soak the cotton ball with 200 times the liquid and plug the punch, so that the worm is poisoned by medicine, and finally block the insect mouth with wet mud.

The above are the daily maintenance skills of Finch Plum bonsai. Have you learned it? The first few points are very simple, and we only need to observe more and be more careful on weekdays, mainly because it is more difficult to find its diseases and insect pests, so we should observe the growth of plants in the season with high incidence of diseases and insect pests to prevent them from being eaten by insect pests.