Pruning Bonsai Ficus

Cutting branches to shape your tree.

Pruning bonsai ficus. Once a year is perfect and you can pair it with trimming defoliating and pruning to slowly create a majestic elegant bonsai. Regular pruning is necessary to retain the tree s shape. Essentially there are two different techniques. Since pruning a ficus bonsai tree is much like a beauty ritual don t be scared about removing branches and helping your tree achieve the desired appearance.

Indoor ficuses need regular pruning to remove old leaves and shape the plant to its living space. How to prune branches on a bonsai ficus 1. Choose from approximately 10 styles of shaping including slanting and formal upright. Prune indoor ficuses in summer autumn or early spring.

Make a sketch of the desired. Typically a good pruning session will end up in removing of new growth on an average. If a considerable thickening of the trunk is desired the ficus can be left to grow freely for one or two years. Trimmed leaves take on an.

In fact it is necessary in order to maintain the shape of the tree. Only trim the stems not the leaves of a ficus. Ficus tree pruning needs to take place when the plant is no longer actively growing. Growing indoor bonsai has become very popular and for some people bonsai is just about indoor trees.

In this video i talk about the ficus retusa. Place your bonsai on a flat surface at eye level. By winter the plant has gone into dormancy and is less susceptible to injury. Pruning off the leaves can also reduce the leaves size as well.

One of most successful indoor bonsai trees is the. You will need shears and a concave cutter. 6 steps to pruning your bonsai step 1 have your tools ready. Shears come in varying sizes the size you.

Maintenance pruning to maintain and refine the existing shape of a bonsai and structural pruning which involves more rigorous pruning to give a tree its basic shape or style. Once 6 8 leaves have grown on a branch prune 2. Prune back to 2 leaves after 6 8 leaves have grown. Analyse your bonsai tree to.

Most plants are vegetatively active in spring and summer with growth dying down in fall. Repotting your ficus microcarpa is essential every one to three years. Step 2 determine where to cut. Step 3 deadwood.

Leaf pruning can be used to reduce leaf size as some ficus bonsai species normally grow large leaves. Use small sharp scissors to prune bonsai. Ensure excellent drainage drainage layer made with clay pebbles or gravel drainage hole under the pot clean sand in the soil mix. Ficus trees take pruning very well.