Bonsai Trunk Fusion

A technique not so often used is trunk fusion.

Bonsai trunk fusion. These plants can be collected from the wild yamadori or backyards bought at nurseries or grown from young seedlings. A trunk created by the bonsai trunk merging technique trunk merging although not formally a way to get a trunk to become thick it is a way to create a tree with a thick trunk in the shortest time possible. Trunk fusions are not a traditional old school method for growing a bonsai trunk. One was to let them grow slow so the nodes the places.

The starting point of any bonsai is finding material with a suitable trunk and nebari. 31 thoughts on ficus bonsai trunk fusing experiment amey says. Bonsai trunk fusion fusing many trunks to one fat bonsai trunk trunk fusions are a grafting technique that use multiple approach grafts of seedlings or rooted cuttings to create a large base trunk with a dramatic even taper in a relatively short time frame. I found your site very inspiratonal.

You can intentionally scar a pine or juniper bonsai tree to help the trunk thicken. This is possible by fusion. Published on oct 31 2018 how to make ficus bonsai by fusion. February 4 2011 at 4 48 pm hello.

Yes you can fuse branches of ficus plant and create a new branch or trunk or add roots to your plant. There are two different growing methods that have been employed here. Using a carving knife you need to cut vertically through the bark until you reach the sap layer. 1g ficus benjamina from lowes greenhouse 5 to 8 trunks in a pot 18 to 24 high w trunk caliper between 1 4 and 5 8.

After being seperated out of the 1g bucket that they came in they were rootpruned and repotted individually into bonsai soil to spend the summer outside. Approach grafts are most commonly used to add a branch to a tree by simply securing the two together. I planning on starting a ficus trunk fusion experiment and your step by step pictures were very instructional. Felt really bad seeing the ficus suffering from forst damage.

I wanted to know what. It is by producing scar tissue that the tree will thicken its trunk as the time passes.