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Bonsai first time: a survival guide to 5 points
More often than not, the approach to bonsai art comes with a gift. A friend, relative or a partner gives a new tree in a pot just short and he can not tell us how to manage it.
Bonsai are mounted on a movable or next to a window and normally die a few months. Here is the misconception that bonsai trees die after a short period of time.
But a bonsai can live among hundreds of years (there are specimens of 1000 years and more) if you are not exempt if you leave your bonsai die. But what to do with this thing?
This is a brief guide suddenly begin to help you in your first month with bonsai:
Establish this species, it is: the first thing you must first know the species of your bonsai is. It is important because each species has different needs different. This can be a difficult task, there are hundreds of species and each may have a large number of varieties and cultuvar.
Basically you do not need to know the exact variety or cultuvar, you need to know the general name of the case: It could be a maple, elm tree, or it could be a pine or juniper.
Arborday.org has a guide to the classification of trees that can help you. Wikipedia also has a ranking list.
Set your bonsai outdoors: unless your bonsai is a species native to tropical regions it should be put outdoors (of course if you live in a tropical, you can configure your tropical bonsai outdoors). A bonsai can not survive inside due to a handful of reasons, if you assume your bonsai is an ornament that you are wrong. Period.
If you identify the species, you can know the exact spot where the post. Usually conifers should go into direct sunlight, other species should be attached to the shade or even shade. This distinction is very rough and there are many exceptions, a piece of good agricultural practices can help you a lot.
Learn how Water: Watering is an important task and one of the most difficult crops of bonsai. Each species requires different amounts water, and you must understand the needs of Your Own bonsai.
Life in a small Bonsai Pot, there is a relatively small amount of land she and the tree can certainly suffer drought and temperature excursions.
In general, if it's summer you have to water your bonsai every night. If you water in the morning, the ground will not dry time and the tree will suffer. If you water at night there will be ample time to absorb water and nutrients, and even if the next day the ground is dry, the bonsai will not suffer.
In spring and fall, you have to reduce watering, wait until the surface begins to dry and then only water. It is easy over-water your bonsai to follow the rules above and you should be allowed.
During the winter, bonsai means little water, it Just keep the soil moist, not wet, and water when it starts to dry.
There are two methods of irrigation: the first is give your tree a shower and will continue until the release of water by the drainage holes, the second is to immerse the pot in a container of water and let the soil absorb.
In either case, remember to wash the foliage too (if the sun never strikes again).
Fertilize your bonsai: Fertilization the task is the most underestimated by the novice. It is really important to fertilize bonsai, because the soil in the pot is easy to lose nutrients for the tree.
The amount of land is limited and it is an isolated environment so it is our duty to provide nutrients. If your IS important if the water is sufficient, answer is no. Could you live just drinking water? No. For your bonsai is the same thing.
Until you become an expert, a balanced fertilizer (10:10:10) will do the job. You do not acquire a specific fertilizer bonsai, bonsai has the same physiology of all vegetables, all fertilizers. Just remember to dilute it more than the recommendations say or you risk burning your bonsai.
A simple solution and it would be good to use the hanagokoro, a Japanese organic fertilizer, very strong, safe and easy to use as it is almost impossible to overeat.
You need to fertilize in the spring, when vegetation begins until July (in the northern hemisphere), then stop in the hottest period. Restart in the second half of August through October (November for conifers).
Get another bonsai: the action will allow you acquire sufficient experience to manage a bonsai. Keep bonsai collection and make your own, with errors and you try to become an expert.
Needless to say it's a great satisfaction to produce your own Bonsai and a pleasant feeling to watch Your Garden of bonsai growing.
You've probably noticed that I omitted tasks such as pruning, cabling, Jin, shari and so on. It is a primer, a kick start guide, created to help you keep your bonsai.
Define what a bonsai is not easy, but we can resume in the perfect "balance between the tree, the form and the welcome drink it." If you do not learn how to take care your tree, and limit your experience to this primer, your bonsai will survive, but he will lose his title "bonsai" in a few years or less.
If you are serious with art bonsai, you want to study. You can buy books – I will soon publish the comments – or to read a resource online though – in the sidebar there is a phiew -.
Of course, keep reading this blog, I'll put a lot of things about bonsai.
If you think This list is not complete (keep in mind that this is a survival guide), feel free to add your points.
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July 31st, 2010
Rick
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