The production of sparrow plum bonsai

Sparrow plum, also known as thorn, sparrow plum vine, sour fruit, sour young tree, is a deciduous climbing shrub of the family Rhamnaceae. The bark is grayish brown and the branchlets are slender with needles. Leaves opposite, ovate or elliptic, margin serrulate, thinly leathery and bright green. Light yellow flowers in autumn and winter, drupe nearly spherical, purple-black when ripe, edible, sour and sweet. It is one of the main tree species of Chinese stump bonsai, one of the five famous trees in Lingnan bonsai, and also one of the bonsai plants exported to the United States after China's entry into WTO.

The production of sparrow plum bonsai

1. Draw materials

For making Finch plum bonsai, annual branches can be selected for cutting propagation in March or Meiyu season, and striping propagation can also be carried out from April to June: when the fruit is ripe, it can be sowed along with the seeds or sowed in the seedling bed after being dried in the shade; in the provinces south of the Yangtze River, wild old root piles or young trees can also be excavated in the wild mountains, and soil pots can be processed after "raising billets" are planted in the field.

2. Modeling

Finch plum has the advantages of strong growth, long life, easy modeling, strong germination, resistance to pruning, soft twigs and easy banding. Most of them are processed by coarse binding and fine shearing, and the complete pruning method (that is, "storing branches and cutting dry method") can also be used. The tree shape is often made into oblique dry type, horizontal dry type, curved dry type, dry type, double dry type, cliff type, root lifting type and so on. Most of the leaves are trimmed into natural style, or they can be processed into cloud flakes or steamed buns.

3. Upper basin

It is appropriate to transplant into the pot before sprouting in February-March in spring. Choose lighter purple sand basin or glazed pottery basin, basin shape to lighter or medium-deep rectangular basin, oval basin is appropriate. The basin soil should be made of loose and fertile slightly acidic rotten leaves, river mud and pond mud mixed with sand. When planting in the soil basin, the root system should be properly trimmed, the lateral root and fibrous root should be obstructed to loosen the fertile soil, and the bottom of the basin should be covered with rubble to facilitate drainage and ventilation.

Time: 2019-05-26 Click: