Bonsai Care
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- Category: Bonsai Care
- Best time for major branch removal / trimming: spring, just as the tree is coming out of dormancy.
- Best time for major wiring / bending (trunk and primary branches): also spring, or in early fall just as temps cool.
- Best time for foliage removal: during the growing season, sparingly to maintain a clean look on finished trees.
Source:: https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/juniper-bonsai-styling-timing.36703/
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- Category: Coniferous Trees
Hinoki Cypress- Chamaecyparis Obtusa:
- Pinching is done 2x a year, in early June and again in September
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- Category: Broadleaf Bonsai
The more I read about Satsuki azalea, the more interesting it tends to become. I already was aware that, due to its different requirements in care taking, Satsuki is a very different branch in the bonsai growers industry, with its own rules and depth in quality appreciation. You can follow the progression of my personal collection here.
Satsuki with its approx. 5000 variants is only one of the many cultivars of Azalea, 20 of which you can find in the azalea database by Mark Nijland.
To emphasize their beautiful bloom, rather than developing a more interesting bonsai shape, Satsuki tend to be grown into so called "flower towers".
My favourites though are in fact those well shaped -mostly as moyogi (informal upright) styled- ones, for their magestic foliage and bark colour combination, where the flowers come as a plus. After all, it only takes 30 years to style one.
Peter Warren, a reknowned UK based Satsuki bonsai specialist, stresses to choose well, for the flower tower variaties are not at all suited to be shaped into a "classical" bonsai style.
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- Category: Pines
A picture tells more than 1000 words. This one shows you when to prune black pine needles and stop fertilizing (May in our northern hemisphere) and then when to start fertilizing again AFTER the new buds have formed and hardened off.
Courtesy of @MakeMoreBonsai
https://youtu.be/uE3L-DVHEug?si=rEgRe-XTPAYRfkQP
The idea of this article is that it grows, while sharing my research findings and insights in handling Japanese black pines (kuromatsu).