Fukien Tea Bonsai Pruning
Walmart clearanced fukien tea bonsai tree repotting pruning and styling duration.
Fukien tea bonsai pruning. So plan to hide or incorporate large pruning scars in the tree s design. In most cases it is not good to prune back more than one fourth of the tree s root mass. Repot the fukien tea in early spring about every two years. Fukien tea handles reduction cuts with good back budding but large cuts do not heal over.
You can prune this bonsai throughout the year. I ve noticed of the couple months i ve had it that it has a few crossing branches that id like to remove. The outer and bottom most fourth of the tree s root mass should be removed. Its doing really well after i repotted into some in organic bonsai soil akadama lava rock its been pushing lots of new growth and flowering nicely.
Fill the tray with small pebbles or gravel add water and sit your bonsai pot on top of it. What to do after buying bonsai from nursery duration. Cut back new shoots to 2 to 3 leaves once they have developed 6 to 8 leaves. While it offers many unique characteristics to the bonsai design the fukien tea tree is one of the more difficult varieties to sculpt.
A well drained but on the other hand water buffering soil is very important because the fukien tea is sensitive to drought as well as excess wetness. Growing and sculpting a fukien tea tree into a bonsai design is not a project for the beginner. I picked up a carmona fukien tea a couple months ago. Bass n bonsai 21 390 views.
As the water evaporates it will provide humidity around the tree. This is done by raking the soil away then pruning back the roots. To provide the necessary humidity around your fukien tea and to stop watering messes i d recommend a humidity tray to go under your bonsai.