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howard | February 21, 2010
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How to Grow a Bonsai Tree – Train Your Bonsai in the Way it Should Grow

Whether you want to start from the beginning, or buy a tree already potted in your desired style, you need to know the correct ways to grow a bonsai tree. This is one gardening endeavor that requires a lot of time, patience and not to mention an appreciation for the difficult task you are about to undertake. A bonsai grower can take years for their skills to reach perfection. Some experienced cultivators say it takes at least a few years just to learn the basics so with that in mind, you can at least be informed about, if not practiced in, the basics.

First of all, when growing a bonsai tree you need to know the right soil to use and the best fertilizer for your breed of tree. Also, you should take note of whether it’s an indoor or outdoor tree as there will be different advice, methods and instructions on how to grow a bonsai tree depending on which type you have. Watering is another important aspect to take note of as bonsais need to be watered of course, but it should be done sparingly for the most part, too much or too little could kill it. Proper pruning is key, and for most species it is done in the Spring time. Finally, another basic rule that you should live by when growing your bonsai tree requires knowing how often to repot your small tree. Depending on what type of tree you have, you may want to repot it every year or every two years.

Now, if you are thinking of how to grow bonsai trees you need to think of starting from the beginning. What do I mean by this? Well, when you buy a bonsai tree at the store that is already in its bonsai pot or tray, you are missing out on it’s creation, from germination to it’s first leaf. To truly learn the craft of growing a bonsai, you should try and cultivate a plant from its infancy. It could take years before you need to pay any attention to the trunk in the bonsai way. Only once it is ready will you even want to pot it in a bonsai tray and this could take years of patience.

So, there are a lot of factors in knowing how to grow a bonsai tree, and you should think about what’s right for you. While you may not have the years of patience to train a bonsai from the beginning, you should at least understand the care that went in to the bonsai tree you bought ready for your use at the nursery.

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howard | February 14, 2010
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Choosing Bonsai Tools to Care for Your Bonsai Tree

If you have a bonsai tree you are going to need to think seriously about choosing bonsai tools to care for your miniature tree. Unlike other plants, bonsai trees need some serious care and maintenance so nothing should be left to chance.

Bonsais are not like other plants. The pots are different as the trees have special needs to be kept as miniature trees. First of all the pots need to have drainage in the bottom so that the water can drain through the soil after the roots get all they need. You do not want wet soil for a bonsai tree as that’s not conducive to the health and containment of small, potted trees. Therefore, you need a humidity tray under a bonsai pot so the water can have somewhere to go after a watering session, and thus you prevent the window sill or whatever piece of furniture on which your bonsai tree resides, from getting wet. Also, importantly, the reason you should be choosing humidity trays as bonsai tools for your bonsai tree is because you need a humid environment all the time for your tree. This is particularly relevant indoors where your house or apartment’s air will be less humid than the bonsai tree truly needs so you need to create that environment for the bonsai tree yourself.

Other bonsai tools for your bonsai tree you can choose are lights that imitate the sun with artificial sunlight. Your indoor, tropical bonsai trees will need this especially in the winter, as they can not handle the winter outside and need more sunlight then short winter days provide.

In addition to this, some bonsai tools you will definitely require tools for pruning and possibly wire to help to manipulate the bonsai to grow in the manner you desire. This is not a traditional way of doing things, but many bonsai growers use wire these days. Speaking of wire, you will want wire mesh at the bottom of your pot, of course, to keep in the soil while the water drains out. Regarding the pruning tools, you will probably want to buy a kit that has different kinds of clippers and trimmers for the different sizes of branches and twigs.

Just remember when you are choosing bonsai tools for your bonsai trees that you will need a lot of extra things you may not have thought about. Taking care of a bonsai tree is truly conscientious work.

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howard | January 31, 2010
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Choosing the Right Soil and Choosing the Right Pots for Your Bonsai Tree

When it comes to bonsai growing, two of the most important things to consider are choosing the right soil and choosing the right pots for your bonsai tree. Bonsai cultivation requires a unique kind of soil different from what you might already use with your regular house plant and the pots need to be as compact as possible to keep your bonsai tree small and contained.

There are a few things to consider when choosing the right soil for your bonsai tree. You do not want soil that will be wet all the time, for one, as the trees do not do well and it could lead to rotting of the core which nearly always ends in game over for your bonsai tree. Your roots also need to be able to breathe and not get saturated with water. Therefore, choose soil specifically for bonsai growing that lets the water pass through the soil easily and does not soak up too much water. Many specialist stores now let you buy specific bonsai soil, but the true fun lies in coming up with your own compositions!

When it comes to choosing the right pots for your bonsai tree, it’s vital to understand the entire process of choosing a specimen to become a bonsai styled tree. While you may buy a bonsai tree that already lives in its final pot, you should know how it begins and ends. Bonsai seeds are a rare thing, and usually the bonsai trainer takes a plant specimen that they want to train to be a bonsai, and put it in a large pot, allowing its roots to grow large and wild. The reason for this is to let the roots grow free and in great numbers, giving them plenty of room to grow and get strong. After this, the expert bonsai grower will repot the plant in a smaller training pot or box, and allow the roots to grow closer together and even from together to give them greater strength and get used to the smaller space. Finally, when the roots have reaches the desired density and thickness, the plant can be moved in to a bonsai pot where we can then truly begin to call this mass a “bonsai tree.”

So, knowing this, important aspects to consider are the current size of your tree and its root mass. But really, the point of bonsai is to keep the tree small and compact, so you need to get a pot that is as small as possible. Other than that, the choosing the right pot for your bonsai is up to you in regards to the style of pot to use, but make sure your pot is specifically for bonsai trees, as they are engineered specifically for this unique art of plant dwarfing.

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howard | December 27, 2009
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How to Care for Your Bonsai Tree

So, just like Mr. Miyagi in the “The Karate Kid” movie you want to know how to take care of your bonsai tree. Well, all jokes aside, caring for these miniature trees is serious business. Whether you buy one at the store that’s already grown and ready for display (after all, your probably want to show off your bonsai so you can show everyone how hip you are), or grow it from seeds, you need to know how to care for your bonsai tree so that it does not die.

If you have a bonsai tree, or have been researching them for any length of time, you probably already know that the term “bonsai” really means the art of taking care of an extremely small tree in a tray, and not a certain species of tree. Of course, bonsai trees are going to be small, but the term actually refers to the manner in which you grow and take care of such trees. So, knowing this, realize that you are part of an exclusive club of people who want to become at one with their tree and care for it as if it is their child.

When thinking about how to care for your Bonsai tree, you first have to understand that there are a lot of different species of bonsai trees – and that will affect the care, what works for one species may not necessarily work for another. Fortunately there are some general rules to follow, though. First off you need to research and choose a good type of fertilizer (which almost always comes in a liquid form) for your particular tree. In addition to this, you need to know the time of year to fertilize as it can be different for each tree. Finally, the correct kind of soil is very important and not something to be overlooked. You can actually take a shortcut and buy soil that has been specifically engineered for bonsai’s at specialty stores, or if you are of the experimenting type, attempt to discover the perfect blend of earth, sand and other material yourself.

One of the most important things in caring for your bonsai tree is pruning – the act of managing the branches and leaves. While pruning, the key focus should be on the trunk. You need to let each branch grow freely and make sure that they don’t start crossing over and interfering with each other. It’s vital that each branch has room to breathe and grow. Some species of trees can be pruned at any time of the year, but some should only be pruned at quite specific times so it’s best to go to a nursery (or an online Bonsai Forum) and ask an expert what’s right for your particular bonsai tree.

The most important thing in knowing how to care for your bonsai tree is awareness and knowledge, so make sure you do your research regarding your specific species of tree.

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