The method of making Fujian Tea Bonsai

Fujian tea is produced in Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan and other provinces in southern China. It is also distributed in the tropics of southern and southeastern Asia. Fujian tea, also known as base tree and cat tree, is an evergreen shrub of Arnebiaceae. The leaves are small, long oval, dark green and shiny. White florets bloom in spring and summer, drupe globose, red after green. With its rugged trunk, colorful Qiu qu and elegant tree posture, it is one of the four major bonsai tree species in Lingnan, and it is also one of the five bonsai plants exported to the United States after China's entry into WTO (namely, boxwood, Fujian tea, Luo Han pine, sparrow plum, June snow).

(1) artificial reproduction:

Cuttings are usually used to propagate. In spring or plum rain season, strong annual branches or semi-mature branches of the same year were selected as cuttings, which were cut into 8 cm long and 12 cm long, with a flat section, leaving only a few upper leaves, and the rest were cut off and inserted deeply into 1B2. The seedbed soil had better be loose and fertile acid sandy loam, pressed after insertion, watered through, and sheltered. It is necessary to strengthen management in summer and autumn, often watering, loosening soil and weeding, and the general survival rate is still high. In the south of our country, rough cuttings or root cuttings are often used, and the survival is better.

2. Mountain mining:

Fujian tea is scattered in the evergreen broad-leaved forest or thicket in the low mountains and hills of the south, and wild tree stumps or young trees can be selected. After digging back, it will be cultivated in the deep, fertile and loose soil layer in the shade, or in the sandy soil rich in organic matter, and then processed in the basin when the root system develops and the new branches and leaves are luxuriant. Lingnan Fujian tea bonsai mostly uses old tree stumps, which are made into big tree type or jungle type bonsai after "storing branches and cutting off dry method".

Third, the process of potting.

The pot is the most suitable for transplanting in early summer. Choose glazed pottery basin or purple sand pottery basin. The basin shape is more common in the medium-deep rectangle or oval shape, the cliff shape is the circular or square high-depth thousand-cylinder basin, and the jungle style is the shallow rectangular basin. The basin soil should be made of loose, fertile and well-drained slightly acidic sandy loam or mixed with pastoral soil plus farm manure and river sand. Select tiles or stones to cover the drainage hole at the bottom of the basin, and then put in a layer of river sand or vermiculite to facilitate ventilation and drainage, and then fill it into the basin soil for planting. When planting, the root system should be extended, and the main root should be slightly exposed to the soil surface. The stumps that have just come into the pot should be kept in the shade for about 15 days, and then moved to semi-shaded and well-ventilated.

1. Selection basin: Fujian tea can use glazed pottery basin or purple sand pottery basin. The basin shape generally uses a medium-deep rectangular or oval basin, the cliff type uses a deep round basin or a higher square thousand-cylinder basin, and the jungle type uses a shallow rectangular basin.

2. Using soil: Fujian tea likes fertilizer and acid. Potted in the south, it often uses pond mud rich in humus, weathered and dried, loose and fertile, and then mixed with appropriate amount of river sandy soil to increase water permeability; rotten leaf soil can also be mixed with rice bran ash.

3. Planting: Fujian tea is generally planted in early summer and cannot be carried out in cold season. When planting, the roots should be stretched, obstructed with fertile soil, and the main root can be slightly exposed to the basin surface. The basin bottom had better be padded with river sand or vermiculite to facilitate ventilation and drainage.

IV. Orthopedic techniques

1. Processing: Fujian tea has strong growth and is very resistant to pruning, so it is most suitable for modeling with the method of "storing branches and cutting off dry". The specific method can be referred to the section of Jiuli incense processing. If the bonsai is cultivated in the north, climbing modeling can also be carried out appropriately. To make Fujian tea bonsai, one-year-old branches or semi-lignified branches with strong growth can be selected for cutting propagation in spring or plum rain season, and seedlings can also be obtained by root propagation from early summer to early autumn. in the south, wild stumps or young trees can also be dug in the woods and processed to pot after raising blanks to survive.

2. Tree shape: Fujian tea is suitable to be made into a natural big tree shape, which is one of the commonly used tree species of Lingnan bonsai in China. The common forms are direct dry type, double dry type, multi-dry type, oblique dry type, cliff type, jungle type and stone-attached type and so on. For the stone-attached method, please refer to the section on shaping the posture of the elm. Fujian tea is very strong in growth and resistant to pruning, so it is suitable to use the method of "storing branches and cutting dry" adopted by Lingnan bonsai, so that the branches can achieve the effect of natural twists and turns and vigorous power by pruning many times. Common tree shapes are straight dry type, double dry type, oblique dry type, multi-dry type, jungle type, cliff type, stone-attached type and so on.

Time: 2019-05-26 Click: