Bonsai comes from the word meaning vase and Bonsai which means tree. Bonsai has a sense of dwarf trees in pots as a result of stunting and tesining (the process of perfecting the form of a tree).
Who wants to become a bonsai plant must have the following requirements:
Who wants to become a bonsai plant must have the following requirements:
- Have a long lifetime. It is expected the older the age the more beautiful shape that resembles a plant that grows in the wild.
- Has relatively small leaves. So after a bonsai is the proportion of leaf and stem size can match.
- Diameter of the trunk can be large. So that when dwarfed forms and apparently can be similar to a large tree.
- Selected branches of plants that form a beautiful and artistic.
Bonsai plant.
Stages of crop cultivation for bonsai:
- Preparing pot. Pot that is used must have a hole at the bottom, so that the flushing water can seep out. So that the soil is not washed the hole is covered with wire netting or broken tiles and gravel. Afterwards, the pot is filled with a layer of fertile soil.
- Move into the Pot Bonsai Plants. Displacement done carefully and quickly so that the plants are not susceptible to interference. At first wash soil around the plants with water so the soil remains attached to the roots. Then take the plants, maintained in order to remain lumpy soil around the roots of plants. Once the crop is taken, then some of the land removed from the roots but not to damage the root hairs. Cut the roots of the old and die. Then place the plant in the pot and set the position to obtain the best possible position. Once the plants grown in pots, compacted soil around the plants with your fingers. For the suppression of plant species spruce soil near the plants do not get too strong because it can damage the root hairs.
- Maintenance. After planting, bonsai plants must be protected from the sun, rain and wind. Soil moisture in the pot should be taken not to dry the soil in the pot. Provision of sunlight after two weeks the plants were planted. In the first stage giving enough sunlight 1-2 hours. Then gradually be extended. Another type of maintenance that is shaping the plant to make it more beautiful, artistic and natural.
The common way be taken:
- Way of pruning. Pruning is a way to shape the bonsai plants. You do this by cutting the branches that are less good. Prune branches at the base to prevent drying of the remaining branches. Pruning is also done to control the growth of branches that are too fast.
- Preservation Method. This way to change the direction of growth of the stem or branch. Preservation conducted on branches that are not old because this branch is still easily be bent according to our will. Initial implementation wire tied around the base of the stem. Then the wire is looped around the stem upward, thus resembling spiral. Way of wrapping the wire starts to the left with regularly spaced. Once completed, the looped end of the wire is tied to the trunk branch to be changed.
- Penukasan way. Leaf growth is too thick will damage the beauty of the composition and bonsai plants. Penukasan way it should be done by picking a few leaves that do not correspond with the desired composition.
