Fukien Tea Bonsai Tree Pruning
This will replenish the nutrients in the soil and leave more room for new roots to grow.
Fukien tea bonsai tree pruning. What to do after buying bonsai from nursery duration. So plan to hide or incorporate large pruning scars in the tree s design. You can prune this bonsai throughout the year. As the water evaporates it will provide humidity around the tree.
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. I ve noticed of the couple months i ve had it that it has a few crossing branches that id like to remove. Everything from cultivation maintenance and pruning should be done by someone with experience. This is done by raking the soil away then pruning back the roots.
Cut back new shoots to 2 to 3 leaves once they have developed 6 to 8 leaves. Repot the fukien tea in early spring about every two years. In most cases it is not good to prune back more than one fourth of the tree s root mass. Of course the end result of all this effort is paid back in full.
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. Repot your fukien tea tree in early spring just before its biggest growing season. Fukien tea handles reduction cuts with good back budding but large cuts do not heal over. 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.
The outer and bottom most fourth of the tree s root mass should be removed. For those up to the challenge the fukien tea tree promises a beautiful graceful bonsai. I picked up a carmona fukien tea a couple months ago. Root pruning should be done with care because the fukien tea bonsai does not take a great loss of roots well.
Bass n bonsai 21 390 views. Walmart clearanced fukien tea bonsai tree repotting pruning and styling duration.