Everything you need to know about Bonsai training and styling. How to properly Prune and Wire your tree to promote growth, manipulating your tree into the shape you desire, and how to achieve natural and realistic Bonsai results.
Pruning Bonsai
Without a doubt, the most important way to train a Bonsai is to prune it regularly. There are two different techniques: 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.
Wiring Bonsai trees
Wiring is a very important technique used to train and style Bonsai trees. By wrapping wire around the branches of a tree you can bend and reposition the branches to your liking. It takes a few months before the branches are set in their new position(s). Remove the wire once the branches have set.
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Advanced Bonsai styling techniques
Topics included in this section are defoliation, creating deadwood parts on a tree, working on the surface roots and trunk of a Bonsai and guides to create a Bonsai forest or rock planting. Let's get started.
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