How to cultivate pomegranate bonsai

For thousands of years, wild pomegranate has been cultivated and domesticated by people, forming two categories: one for ornamental flower pomegranate and the other for edible fruit pomegranate. Pomegranates for ornamental flowers are divided into flower viewing and fruit viewing, but they are mainly famous for their colorful flowers. Especially in that spring gradually go, flowers when things wane, red like fire pomegranate flowers, jumped on the branches, there is indeed "a little red in the green, moving spring need not be more" poetic meaning.

At present, pomegranate bonsai is popular in flower market. From the perspective of market conditions, the good-looking pomegranate bonsai sells quickly at a high price. Of course, good quality comes from good cultivation techniques. So how do pomegranate potted plants grow?

Nurturing pile stage: making bonsai more choose small pomegranate tree species with short plant state, small leaves and small flowers and fruits, such as fire pomegranate, four-season pomegranate, agate pomegranate and other varieties. Pomegranates can be used for propagation sowing method, cuttage method. The saplings obtained by the above two methods can be planted for more than 3 years before they can be cut off to cultivate small and medium-sized bonsai.

Branching stage: According to the shape of pomegranate trees, the trunk is truncated at an appropriate height and the main branches are truncated. Pomegranates potted landscape can be made into straight dry, inclined dry, curved dry and other tree. pomegranate trees have a certain degree of cold resistance, in the leeward sun slightly protected, in North China can be in the outdoor winter. For trees to grow quickly, it is better to plant them on the ground. Pomegranates like fertilizer, in addition to planting good base fertilizer, in the spring and summer growth period, every half a month to apply a decomposed thin organic fertilizer. Pomegranates grow faster, when the branch thickness reaches about 70% of the ideal thickness, that is, the branches cut short, promote the growth and development of lateral branches.

Forming stage: when pomegranate trees basically meet the design composition requirements, in early spring, pomegranate stumps can be planted into ornamental pots of appropriate size and style, straight dry type and inclined dry type can be planted into oval shallow pots, curved dry type can be planted into square medium depth pots, at this stage of cultivation, more fertilizer should be applied appropriately to promote tree growth, better shape, on the other hand, the need for appreciation should also be considered.

After molding: pomegranate bonsai after several years of cultivation, pruning and molding maintenance, on the basis of maintaining the shape, to achieve the purpose of spring flower viewing and autumn fruit viewing (pomegranate flowers do not bear fruit), pay attention to the following points:

1. Shaping. Pomegranates germinate strongly and grow new branches several times a year. Generally, the robust new branches grown in spring can form fruiting mother branches, and the terminal buds or axillary buds grown from these branches in the following spring give birth to short new branches with regular flowers, among which the flowers of terminal buds are most likely to set fruits. Summer and autumn buds should be cut off in time. Pomegranates potted plant shaping, often in the spring before germination, cut off long branches, too dense branches, thin branches, pay attention to retain those strong fruit mother branches.

2. Fertilization. Pomegranates than the general flowers and trees like fertilizer, pot bottom when turning appropriate put more fermented hoof or cake fertilizer. Spring and summer growth vigorous period fertilizer should be applied more phosphorus fertilizer.

3. Light and water. From late April to early June this period of time, is pomegranate bud pregnancy period, should be sufficient light and appropriate less watering, so that the pot soil dry. When the new leaves are slightly wilted, put the pomegranate tree in shade for 30 minutes, and then pour enough water into the basin. Repeat this a few times and buds will appear in about 20 days.

4. Fruit thinning. After the fruit is in prison, too many fruits that are not needed in the shape should be cut off. A medium-sized pomegranate bonsai can have 3-5 fruits. Fruit distribution should be high and low scattered, sparse and dense, not equal distance. If the fruit is too much, it will affect the next year's results in addition to being chaotic.

Time: 2019-05-25 Click: