Defoliate Bonsai Ficus

Reasons to defoliate your bonsai tree.

Defoliate bonsai ficus. Pruning leaves to induce a new flush of growth. Secondly defoliating is believed to produce better fall colors in deciduous trees. You could use a pair of scissors or you could individually remove the leaves by hand. Once you decided on the technique that suites your application best you can move on to defoliated the tree.

The technique is used to reduce the leaf size thus making the replacement leaves smaller and in better scale to the tree s. Additionally removing larger leaves allows light to penetrate areas that were shaded before. This technique should only be used on deciduous trees healthy enough to withstand this demanding technique. 32cm trunk diameter 15cm.

Since then it has developed in size and shape quite nicely. In doing so you force the tree to grow new leaves leading to a reduction in the size of leaves and an increase in ramification. This is my favourite ficus bonsai. I bought it in 2005 as a small under developed and somewhat underwhelming stock tree that someone was getting rid of for 20.

Defoliation is the complete or partial removal of the leaves of a bonsai tree. Bonsai defoliation involves cutting all the leaves of a tree during the summer. Its current size is height.