How to make bonsai with golden marbles (scientific name bottle orchid)? How to maintain and manage? What are the main varieties?

Golden marbles, the scientific name bottle orchid. Evergreen shrubs or small trees have beautiful flowers and fruits that last for a long time and are shaped like marbles, so they are called "golden marbles" which should be planted in the garden for viewing; they are suitable for making bonsai stumps, so do you know how to make bonsai with golden marbles? How to maintain and manage? What are the main varieties?

First, how to make bonsai with golden marbles

Golden marbles wood is tough, the tree is strong, the root plate is strong, the dry body is strange, vigorous and majestic, more than the view of twisting tendons to bone, muscle protruding, the formation of grooves and grooves, holes, potholes, bract tumors of the strange scene, unique. The bark of the golden billiard tree is dark, ancient and dignified, with luxuriant branches and leaves, fragrant flowers, colorful fruit, magnificent and beautiful appearance. The golden marble pot plant is easy to hang fruit, the downhill pile is properly maintained, it can blossom and bear fruit in the third year, but it will take 5-10 years to plant on the ground. The gold marbles are strong. When bonsai is made, the branches can be cut, bent and twisted, and the trunk can be dug, cut and carved. Golden marbles have strong adaptability, can be planted in the north and south, can be planted in the east and west, and take root after long-distance migration to other places. The bonsai and piles of golden marbles in western Hunan have been exported to Guangdong, Fujian, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Chongqing, Hubei, Shandong, and Changsha, Changde, Yueyang, Zhuzhou and other places in the province, and all grow well. After a return visit, a batch of golden marble bonsai sold to Guangzhou Baiyun Airport are not only growing well, but also blossom and bear fruit.

The members of the golden marble family are numerous, colorful, strange and mysterious, which is worth studying. According to the leaf shape, it can be divided into three types: large leaf, middle leaf and leaflet. The large leaves are generally 10cm × 4cm to 13cm × 6cm, the middle leaves are generally 5cn × 2cn-m to 10cm × 4cm, and the leaflets are generally 2cm × 1cm to 5cm × 2cm. According to the number of flowers and fruits, it can be divided into three types: single flower and single fruit type, double flower and double fruit type, multi-flower and multi-fruit type. No matter which of these three categories, there is a distinction between male and female. In fruit shape, there are oblong fruit shape, partial round fruit shape, upper cone shaped fruit, lower cone shaped fruit, grapefruit shaped fruit, gourd shaped fruit and so on. According to the color of mature fruit, there are golden yellow, orange, and pure green (there is no change in color from young to mature fruit). The mature fruit body has the shape of large fruit, medium fruit and small fruit, and the diameter of large fruit is 5-6cm. The leaves that bear this kind of fruit are large leaf shape, and the number of hanging fruit is small. The diameter of the middle fruit is 3-4cm, and the leaves have both middle leaves and leaflets. The diameter of the small fruit is about 2cm, and the trees that bear small fruits have many flowers, and the fruit setting rate is very high. The fruit is bundled into bunches. Some produce a bunch of five fruits, six fruits and seven fruits in a bud, and some produce a stalk and three fruits, that is, a bunch of three fruits. Golden marbles set flower, fruit, shape, green, fragrance in one, high ornamental value, easy to survive transplantation, the easiest to maintain, outstanding advantages of tree species, is the preferred material for bonsai production. The main method of bonsai production is the combination of dry pruning and pruning.

Bonsai modeling: there are mainly straight dry, oblique dry, curved dry, lying dry and other ancient tree shapes, as well as cliffs, water, literati trees, jungle style and various pictographic bonsai, various forms, rich and colorful, lovers can play according to their personal preferences, gold marbles formed after good stability, not easy to change. In order to improve the viewing effect, the golden marble bonsai should not be too dense in modeling, so as to ensure that the golden marble bonsai can see both the tree shape and the fruit.

Second, how to maintain and manage the golden marbles

Golden marble bonsai should be placed in a ventilated and sunny place to sprout, adequate light, water and fertilizer to ensure that the growing season is general, 10-15 days to pour mature farm manure. Hanging too much fruit in the previous year will affect the hanging fruit in the next year. If you want to hang the fruit every year, it is necessary to limit the number of hanging fruit by manual control, so as to ensure that the tree is strong and colorful, and can promote the tillering of flower buds without affecting the hanging fruit next year. If you want to feel the spectacular scene of a bumper harvest, you can appropriately thinning the fruit, maintain a certain number of hanging fruits, and strengthen the management of water and fertilizer. In autumn and winter, you can watch the spectacle of red fruits in bunches. Trees with abundant fruits generally have to rest and recuperate in the second year, we must strengthen the management of water and fertilizer, supplement nitrogen in the spring growth stage, give priority to farm manure, and apply compound fertilizer appropriately. In the autumn of July and August, topdressing phosphate fertilizer twice to promote the tillering of flower buds, so that the spectacular beauty of fruitful will be displayed again next year. During the maintenance of golden marble bonsai, due to the limitation of conditions, the bonsai is placed too densely, the ventilation is not smooth, or due to lack of light, it is in a wet state for a long time, and it is easy to be harmed by shell insects. Prevention and control methods, one is to adjust the location to improve ventilation and lighting conditions; the other is to use quick culling and fenpropathrin solution spraying can prevent and cure.

III. What are the main varieties of golden marbles

Golden marbles are distributed and cultivated in East China, South China and Central China. Now listing and participating in the exhibition are mainly golden marbles in Sichuan and Hubei, but these two kinds of golden marbles are different. First, let's take a look at Sichuan golden marbles. This variety has the characteristics of many leaves and small fruits, and as long as it meets the cultivation years, small, miniature bonsai or very small pile heads can also hang fruit in the basin.

Hubei golden billiard is divided into big leaf, middle leaf and leaflet, big leaf fruit is small, middle leaf fruit is big, small leaf fruit. Some small pile heads have been cultivated for many years and rarely blossom and bear fruit. The biggest special feature of Hubei golden marbles is that it does not shed leaves in winter. every year from New Year's Day to the Spring Festival, hanging fruit golden marbles change from green to red in the green leaves, red and green, iron stem Qiu branch, full of vitality.

Time: 2019-03-16 Click: