Cedar Of Lebanon Bonsai Care
The cedar prefers sun lots of it.
Cedar of lebanon bonsai care. Specific bonsai care guidelines for the cedar. Although they are often large specimens in nature cedars make suitable varieties for growing and training as bonsai trees. Should i just drop it in a larger clay pot and let it grow for a year with some loam peat and sand or prune the roots and move it to a bonsai pot sooner. Also adapt the soil mixture to provide for enough drainage.
Be careful not to overwater as the cedar prefers slightly dry conditions. In terms of potting i am hoping to get some help. Do not let your cedar bonsai suffer from overwatering. In their natural habitat cedar trees cedrus can grow over 50 feet tall.
Lebanon cedar cedrus libani and cyprus cedar are two varieties that work exceptionally well for forming into bonsai specimens. Water cedar bonsai trees only when the soil is nearly dry but not entirely dry. I just order this young cedar of lebanon in the mail see attachment. With proper care a cedar of lebanon bonsai lives many years.
In wintertime protect the tree from freezing temperatures. The ideal location provides. The true ceders and the bald cypress taxodium are good growers for intriqued by bonsai the others not so much the cool nursery he went to imports lots of nice conifers from all parts north and hopes to sell them off by summer because thats when they begin their decline.