How to Plant Your First Bonsai Tree

Summary:

Bonsai is Japanese tradition comes from japan. The word Bonsai came from japanese which means tray pot plantation, Bon is tray like pot and Sai is plantation or plantations.

Containers:

Containers can be made of clay or carved wood, Shape of container can be circle, oval, rectangle or square. Container size and shape can be vary according to style of Bonsai. It is very important to choose right container for particular style of Bonsai. The trunk thickness and length of the tree is depends on container size and shape.

Bonsai Styles:

1) Formal upright style

                    2) Informal upright style

3) Slant style

                                   
                   4) Cascade style

5) Root over rock style

                                                                                                       6) Forest style

7) Growing in a Rock style

    8) Multi trunk style

Soil Mixture for Bonsai:

Standard mixture of bonsai soil consist of many different soils, the soil particles should be 1/8 to 1/16 mm diameter in size.It should not too small or not too big to maintain moisture, dryness and Aeration in soil.
Akadama, River rock, Lava rock, Fragmented Granite, Plant Bark, etc these materials are includes in Bonsai Soil mix, You can also buy ready made soil mix online for your Bonsai.

How to Plant Bonsai:

1) First of all decide what species and which style you want to plant for Bonsai. It is very important to decide Bonsai style first, because you will need to buy bonsai pot according to your bonsai style.
2) Prepare your bonsai soil mixture or as i mentioned earlier you can also get it from online store.
3) Get your healthy plant from garden or from wherever you have decided to get one. Now remove plant form old soil and prepare at the same time prepare your new pot.
4) Place a plastic net on pot drain holes so that your soil mixture will not make there way out from drain holes. Then fill your bonsai pot 60% with soil mixture.
5) Now clean the plant and its roots with sprayer and placed the plant inside pot on pre-filled soil and then fill the rest of soil on the top of roots.
6) Now fill the complete pot with water so that soil and roots gets adjust in pot. Then put the pot tilted for couple of hours to drain excess water.

Commom Species to use for Bonsai plantation:

1) Ficus
2) Juniper
3) Japanese Mapple
4) Dwarf Pomegranate
5) Oak
6) Boxwood
7) Cedar
8) Citrus
9)Achrus Sapota
10) Carrisa carrandus
11) Psidium Guava
12) Ficus Elastica
13) Nyctanthus arborticus
14) Punica granatum

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