Training Juniper Bonsai
Pruning bonsai without doubt the most important way to train a bonsai is to prune it on a regular basis.
Training juniper bonsai. Mike demonstrates how to take a juniper purchased at dallas bonsai garden and pot it into a training pot. For those looking for a more styled bonsai tree the trained rock juniper consists of an artfully shaped juniper procumbens nana. Re pot the root pruned juniper into a shallow pot often called a training pot smaller than the 1 gallon container it was growing in but larger than the bonsai pot it will eventually occupy. Sorry this item is currently out of stock.
The entire process is demonstrated including creating drainage screen clips to hold the. I will cover a few training aspects that are specific to this species such as pinching back growth instead of cutting. Training a juniper bonsai. A major part of bonsai pruning is performed at the initial stages of growth when a normal plant specimen is transformed into a fit candidate for growing as a bonsai.
With a juniper bonsai you will want to pinch back new growth because cutting it back will cause the surrounding needles to die off. This juniper bonsai training course has been designed to provide you with the why when and the how to successfully advance your juniper bonsai. Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 9 and thunderhead grows in usda zones 5 through 10. We will cover horticultural aspects of feeding watering repotting propagation pests and disease creation of jins and shari preserving deadwood pruning and some very common mistakes corrected.
Essentially there are two different techniques. Training a formal upright bonsai to have a good. The juniper is hardy in u s. This is a resource for professionals regarding treatment and management of hiv and hepatitis testing delivering results policy development psychosocial issues resource referrals and other related.
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. It s hard to cover all the techniques of training a bonsai in a care article so you will need to do a little more research on this. Inova juniper program health educators and clinicians are available in person or by telephone for technical assistance and consultation services.