Miniature banyan bonsai under soilless cultivation

Ficus originated in China, India and other places, China's Guangdong, Fujian and other places of cultivation is more common.

The fig tree is easy to survive by cutting propagation. In the growth period combined with plastic, cut a part of the branches, with plant ash disinfection treatment, to be collected pulp, cuttage into the sand, after a month and a half can survive and root. After the root system grows normally, it can be cultivated and maintained in pots. After careful management on the pot, after a year of growth, the tree can be plump, leafy. In the spring of the following year, soilless culture can be carried out to cultivate miniature bonsai. First soil planted small fig from the basin poured out, washed with clean water, the roots of the necessary disinfection treatment, to be planted.

Specific operation method:

Soilless culture can be self-prepared good nutrient solution, or to the flower shop to buy. Take out 10 ml of the original solution and add 2 kg of water to use. Put the cleaned banyan tree into a container containing nutrient solution and soak it for 10 minutes to absorb sufficient nutrients.

Vermiculite with good permeability, water retention and fertilizer retention was selected as cultivation substrate.

Select the appropriate specifications, beautiful and generous miniature purple sand basin, and wash clean. Because basin is small, usable plastic window gauze pad basin bottom, fill its basin bottom drain hole, put vermiculite a few first.

Plant the banyan tree to be cultivated into the pot, straighten out the root system, pay attention to the tree posture and root claw placement, face the front side of the ornamental side, and then fill the vermiculite around it, press the vermiculite with your fingers, so that it is tightly combined with the root system.

After planting, observe the tree vigor and planting direction again and again until satisfied, then pour nutrient solution until the nutrient solution flows out from the bottom hole of the pot. Finally, rinse the dirt stuck to the trunk and branches with a squirt can, and place it in a cool and ventilated place. Do not expose it to the sun. After a week, gradually increase the lighting time and switch to normal management.

Banyan likes sunshine and warmth, in summer high temperature conditions, just in the miniature bonsai pot under a suitable size tray, usually only water in the tray. To fertilize, dilute the nutrient solution and pour it into the tray. In order to make banyan grow well in small pots, urea solution can be sprayed frequently, and the concentration ratio should not be too concentrated, preferably about 0.5%.

Ficus after a period of growth, roots and vermiculite completely integrated into one, even if the whole plant from the pot out of the vermiculite will not appear loose phenomenon.