Bonsai Trunk Merging Technique

Let s find out more the most common techniques to thicken a bonsai tree trunk are.

Bonsai trunk merging technique. Here we start with a series of young saplings which are tied around a supporting cone shaped object. Of course once the roots are formed then we will change the soil mix to a bonsai one. You pull the tree out of the pot only do this at the beginning of the growing season wash all the soil off the roots and split the trunk from the bottom up with a wood chisel a saw or a rotary tool or a trunk splitter. The saplings are placed as tight against each other as possible.

I have a large pyracantha bonsai that was trained for twenty years before it finally got its bonsai pot. A thick bonsai tree trunk can be achieve with a sacrificial branch trunk merger or the bend to grow technique. Approach grafts are most commonly used to add a branch to a tree by simply securing the two together. After fusion is complete the donor is removed below the graft.

Here you will see a technique that will give us a further headstart. These branches are not pruned at all for two to three years thickening the trunk as they grow quickly. The branch growing to the right is the sacrifice branch left untouched to help thicken the trunk. Different tree varieties take different times for branches to set in place and different varieties will take more or less tension to bend them into place.

The technique is exactly what it sounds like. Growing the bonsai tree in the ground trunk merging growing a sacrificial branch cutting the trunk bend to grow. Plants are grown out in large training pots or in the ground to attain the trunk size and character desired before they ever come near a bonsai pot. After the two to three years the branches are removed.

How to create a fused bonsai trunk. Bonsai tree trunks will only thicken up when the tree is growing a lot. The technique involves tying a series of young saplings around a supporting cone shaped object. Growing the bonsai tree in the ground.

The complete set of young saplings is allowed to grow vigorously so that the thickness of the saplings also increases. To use this method. 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. Small bonsai do not become large bonsai.

Bonsai wire comes in a range of thicknesses from 1mm up to 6mm so you need to choose a wire size appropriate to the thickness of the trunk or branch you wish to wire. The saplings are placed near each other as close as possible and tied tightly with a tape or thin rope. Once plants are potted in small containers they. As they grow and swell the pressure of being firmly secured together forces the two pieces to fuse into one.