How to cultivate red maple bonsai

Red maple is a variety of green maple (Acer chinense), red leaf color, beautiful, beautiful leaf shape, beautiful tree posture, spring and autumn full of red leaves, beautiful. Red maple, tree shape dancing, beautiful moving. It should be planted alone or in groups among rocks, pines and cypresses, but also potted in families or made into bonsai for viewing, but also cut branches and vase insertion, as cut flowers for viewing. Let's see how the red carpet is maintained.

Red maple can be made into different forms of bonsai such as straight dry type, inclined dry type, curved dry type, water type and cliff type according to the shape of tree stump; it can also be planted in a pot to make double dry type, three dry type and jungle type bonsai. When making jungle type bonsai, plants of different heights and sizes should be selected and planted in groups, accompanied by rocks, moss and other accessories to express the artistic conception of "maple forest drunk dye".

[Light]

Red maple likes warm and humid environment and sufficient and soft sunshine, saplings are afraid of sun exposure, drought tolerance. In the growing season, it can be maintained in a place without direct sunlight, especially to avoid sun exposure; in summer, it is more important to prevent sun exposure, and it can be placed in a shade shed or under other plants, otherwise it will cause the leaves to wither and fall off.

[Watering]

Frequent watering to keep the pot soil moist, but not water, so as not to cause rotten roots, dry air to plant and the surrounding environment to increase air humidity, so that the leaves moist.

[Fertilization]

The thin liquid fertilizer or compound fertilizer is applied every 15 days in the growing season, and the fertilization should be stopped in summer when it is high temperature or rainy. Fertilizer solution should be mainly phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, supplemented by nitrogen fertilizer. If phosphorus and potassium fertilizer are insufficient, the leaves will not be red.

[Leaf Picking]

Red maple is the most beautiful time when new leaves just grow out, in order to increase ornamental, can be in June and September each year to pick leaves once, before picking leaves apply fertilizer once a week, after picking leaves to prune plants, and strengthen water and fertilizer management, about 15 days can grow fresh red leaves. If the leaves are scorched by the sun, they can be removed in August, placed in a ventilated and cool semi-shady place, and applied with a thin nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium compound fertilizer solution once a week. It will not take long for new bright red leaves to grow. During the growth period, the leaves that affect the tree shape and the ventilation and light transmission of the inner bore should be removed in time. When the new leaves germinate, pay attention to the first pinching, so as to promote the fine young branches, so that the leaves are small and dense and have high ornamental value.

[Styling]

The modeling method is mainly pruning, supplemented by winding, and some branches can be pulled to make their layout reasonable. Red maple bonsai should be white stone basin, green glazed pottery basin, yellow purple sand basin, but not red or purple and leaf color similar basin.

[Change basin]

Every 2 to 3 years before the spring germination for a pot, pot soil requirements fertile loose, rich in humus, available humus soil 2, sand 1 mixed after use.

[Winter]

In the south, flowerpots can be buried outdoors in the sun, and in the north, it is best to winter in a cold room at a temperature not lower than 0 ° C. Do not fertilize or irrigate too much water to keep the soil dry.

Red maple likes the sun evenly in the shade, shade resistance, more cold-resistant. In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, it can be overwintered in the open field, and in the north, it should be overwintered indoors or in greenhouses. Suitable for cool and humid environment (half shade and half sun) and loose, fertile, well-drained neutral or acidic soil growth.

Notes:

1, planting can be used in general culture soil, watering after the semi-shade place. Often spray water on branches. Light can be increased at the beginning of leaf expansion. Apply a light (nitrogen) fertilizer once after all the leaves are unfolded. Place in a semi-shaded place with even sunlight for normal management.

2. Pay attention to ventilation in summer and autumn. Potted plants should be moved to semi-shade around noon, and pay attention to ventilation. In the sun exposure, leaves should be burnt edge, curl, deciduous. Water the soil to prevent it from drying out.

3, if you want to manually control the leaves, you can do it once between spring and summer and autumn. Too much work hurts the tree. May be in June and September all pluck leaves once, 10 days later can grow bright red new leaves. Two things to note: one is to prune after picking leaves. The second is to fertilize one week before picking leaves. Artificial control of new leaves, fertilizer and water to strengthen, this is the key to success.

4. If the leaves are scorched under the scorching sun, all the scorched leaves can be removed in August, placed in a cool and semi-shady place, and applied with nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium compound solution, lightly applied, about twice a week. In this way, new bright red leaves can grow in autumn.

Time: 2019-06-01 Click: