Maintenance of Plum Blossom Bonsai

For the maintenance of plum blossom bonsai, people like plum blossoms, some draw plums, some plant plums, and enjoy more plums. As one of the top ten famous flowers, the plum blossom has a long history of making bonsai. It is the representative tree species of Hui style bonsai. It mostly uses climbing modeling and has high ornamental value.

The modeling is mainly carried out by natural cutting and climbing as a supplement. The trunk is suspended into curved stem type or oblique dry type or horizontal dry type; some are cultivated from an early age to climb the trunk into a cliff type lower than the basin surface; some climb the trunk into a wandering dragon type. The roots are mostly exposed and hanging roots, the branches should be sparse and dense, and the main branches should not be too many.

The conservation of plum blossom bonsai is very important, and it can blossom and watch year after year if it is properly maintained.

When putting on the basin, 70% of the pond soil, 20% of the rotten leaf soil and 10% of the rotten garbage soil are mixed and planted evenly, so the basin soil has good drainage performance and is not easy to accumulate water. The size and style of the basin are determined according to the size and shape of the stump, and the long basin of medium depth is mostly used. The basin soil should not be too shallow and too little, otherwise it will affect the growth and development of tree stump. After the stump is put on the pot, it is appropriate to place a place with sufficient light and good ventilation.

Fertilization: attention should be paid to the fertilization season. Generally, bone meal and bean cake can be placed at the bottom of the basin as base fertilizer. Cake fertilizer and water should be applied twice before flower bud formation in mid-May and late May, and 1-2 times in early August. It can be applied again in autumn.

Pruning: to make the plum blossom bonsai not only simple and vigorous, but also strong, blossom many, pruning is very important. Because the flower buds of plum are formed on the new branches of the same year, the old flower branches should be truncated immediately after flowering each year, leaving only 2-3 buds, and pay attention to making the buds grow outward in order to make the flowers blossom in the following year. The pruning of plum blossoms can be divided into the following types:

1. Thinning branches: cut off all kinds of cross branches, parallel branches, overlapping branches, opposite branches, long branches and overdense, thin branches that affect the appearance of the tree. To achieve the principle of "keep the old branches motionless, stay strong and remove the weak".

two。 Truncation: that is, on the basis of thinning, the upper part of the one-year-old branch after flowering is cut off. The degree of truncation should be determined according to the modeling needs and growth potential, those with good growth can be cut less, and those with poor growth can be cut more. According to the needs of modeling, sometimes a small number of long branches can be left. When cutting short, we should also choose the direction of the bud mouth according to the direction and angle of the branch, in order to achieve density.

3. Pick buds: that is, around April, when the leaf buds grow to about 3 cm, according to the location of the buds, density and the needs of tree modeling, pick some unwanted buds. For the buds on the old stem, pick as you go.

4. Heart-picking: that is, when the new shoot grows to a certain length in late June, the terminal bud will be removed to control the growth of the branch, and the general length should be 15cm to 30cm. For the plum blossom with poor germination, the heart can be picked in advance to promote its re-germination. When the plum blossom is too old, the tree often becomes weaker. In order to rejuvenate the declining plum trees, the following measures can be taken:

① cut off the lateral branches on the trunk in batches year by year, or cut the lateral branches year by year until they were removed from the base, so as to achieve the purpose of renewal.

When ② renews thick branches, attention should be paid to the protection of wounds to prevent the invasion of diseases and insect pests.

When the plum pot is cultivated in ③, it is best to choose the land with ventilation and light, rich and loose soil, and thinning the branches at the same time. Turn the basin: the plum blossom bonsai should be turned every 1-2 years, preferably after flowering in March, or from November to December in winter. When turning the basin, remove the old soil 1B3~1B2, cut off the dead roots, shorten the over-long old roots, and replace them with humus-rich rotten leaf soil or frozen loose pond soil, mixed with rice chaff ash and sandy soil.

Pest control: the main diseases of plum blossom are anthracnose, powdery mildew, leaf shrinkage, bituminous coal disease and so on. The main pests are plum caterpillars, aphids, longicorn beetles, military insects, diamondback moths and so on. Diseases can be sprayed with 0.5% Bordeaux solution and pests can be sprayed with 1500 times of dichlorvos. If the dried plum found that longicorn beetle larvae were eaten into the tree trunk, 1 part of dichlorvos plus 0.5 part of light diesel oil, cotton ball dipped in the wormhole, and then sealed with wet mud. When using drugs to control insect pests, you should avoid using dimethoate, otherwise it will cause fallen leaves and even lead to death.

Watch

The plum blossom tree is elegant and elegant, with dry Yan cover, sparse branches and oblique horizontal, vigorous and simple, the most beautiful. The best ornamental period is the flowering period, usually from February to March. If you want to blossom during the Spring Festival, you can put the plum blossom bonsai into a greenhouse of about 10 ℃ about 40 days before the Spring Festival, with plenty of sunshine and regular water spraying. Plum pile bonsai has the beauty of color, shape and charm, with good color, aroma and taste.

Yang Wanli, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote a poem chanting plum: "at the beginning, I also feel fragrant and broken nose, no fragrance nor taste, virtual condensation dusk flowers want to sleep, do not know to be intoxicated by flowers." This is a description of the delicate fragrance of plum blossoms.