Bonsai Rules
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Bonsai rules. Trunk should lean slightly toward the. With bonsai the leaning style should grow at an angle of about 60 80 degrees relative to the ground. Height should be six times the caliper of the trunk. Azaleas require a specific fertilizer for the best growth and flowering.
Grey branches can be removed. A few guidelines are shown in the image below but deciding on the future design of your tree is a creative process not necessarily bound by rules. The rules have to be loosened to create one such bonsai that conforms to the characteristic features of hardwoods or to avoid making it look so much like a conifer feb. Among the aesthetic principals of visual art are line form color texture composition dimension perspective and balance.
Obviously all the textbook conventions for bonsai are derived from fundamental concepts of artistry and aesthetic principals of visual art. The rules of bonsai trunk and nebari rules. Training a bonsai with a front in mind is simply doing everything possible to reveal and maximize its best visual qualities. The classic quip of the famous japanese american bonsai artist john naka is if you can t find a front find the back.
Pruning a bonsai tree illustration. An acidic fertilizer given every two weeks until the azalea. Remove most of the fines from any soil mix using only coarse particles. It should taper gradually as it rises from the pot towards the apex.
The bonsai styles page can help. Graham potter demonstrates how this works in practice with a weird and completely unique. No eye poking branches pointed directly at viewer. Increase humidity by using a tray of pebbles and or water or by keeping the area under the bench wet.
Trying to encompass what nature hands us is a part of the magic of creating bonsai trees from yamadori. A good bonsai must have an impressive and characterful trunk. Bonsai potting medium lacks the nutrients the plants need. No crossing branches or branches that cross the trunk.
Water from above not by submerging the bonsai this will prevent the buildup of salts.