How To Shape Bonsai Trees Using Wire

Wire is also used to place branches in the final design of a bonsai.

How to shape bonsai trees using wire. Grab one wire with nose pliers at the top leaving the half cm then twist your wrist to right again hold this wire a little below and twist your wrist to left. Stop watering the bonsai a few days before wiring the trunk and branches. Support our store at. As previously mentioned wire is often used to re arrange branches and pull them down creating the look of an older tree.

As a rule of thumb use wire of 1 3 of the thickness of the branch you are wiring. Now the wire have some zic zac shape. A tree that hasn t been watered will have. We also go over how applying wire to smaller branches can help shape your tree.

Wrap aluminum or copper wire around the trunk of the tree beginning at the base of the tree and wrapping it at a. This serves two purposes. When wiring an entire tree work from the trunk to the primary branches and then start wiring the secondary branches. The wire should be thick enough to hold the branch in its new shape.

Basically copper or aluminium wire is wrapped around the trunk and branches to form the shape of the tree you are trying to create. Open the wires if it bends from top of branches. Wire the length of the branch always using your thumbs to press the length of the wire gently but firmly onto the trunk or branch using the end of the wire as a handle and twisting it around the tree usually makes the wire too tight on the branch and can cut off circulation if the wire is too loose there will be no holding power and the branch will return to its original position. How to wire shape bonsai plants 1.

Using wire we can mimic the shape of an old tree by adding movement with bends or twists. In this video we go over how to create movement in your bonsai by applying wire to the trunk. Wrap wire that is.