5 misunderstandings when growing bonsai, no wonder the bonsai is stunted, barren, the more you work, the more you die

Lots of growers trees but after a while, discouraged because it looks beautiful, but if you plant it, you will die. This is really because we often don’t pay much attention to details when planting treesgot some misunderstandings in gardening.

That’s what leads to trees grown indoors is not lush but stunted, barren, even withering quickly. So let’s see what you misunderstood about planting trees and garden.

1. Buy only trees according to hobby

To trees To grow well, in addition to maintenance and care, it is essential to have a growth environment that trees prefer.

For example trees If it likes moisture and puts it in a dry place, no plant that likes sunlight and is placed in the dark will not survive. Your home is damp, poorly ventilated, but growing flowers that don’t like moisture, waterlogged roots, root rot, is like putting them to death.

Therefore, when going to the market trees, you don’t just see a beautiful tree, I like to plant it. You have to think about whether your home environment is suitable for raising them?

When we buy flowers, the first condition is that we have to see treesthe flower is suitable for indoor environment such as light, temperature, ventilation and other conditions.

If your house has a yard in front of the house, a terrace is basically kind of trees Anything can be planted. If the balcony has better lighting conditions, you can consider growing some light-loving and blooming flowers.

And if the lighting conditions at home are not good, you need to grow some shade-tolerant, foliage flowers. In addition, in some areas winter temperatures drop too low, some trees If you can’t stand the cold, it’s best not to raise them or leave them outside when the temperature is too cold.

In summer, if indoor ventilation is poor, some trees will also be underdeveloped.

2. No pruning trees

Many growers trees Too much focus on watering and fertilizing that gradually ignores a very important care job, which is pruning.

Pruning is a skill that we must master in the process of planting trees. Whether you are planting a flower tree or a tree for leaves, you also need certain pruning to make the tree more beautiful, grow stronger and bloom better.

From the very beginning of the growth period of the flower, pruning is inseparable. The flower development will face various small conditions, will produce many wilted, old, diseased and dead branches, as well as foot branches, dense branches, parallel branches, zigzag branches, etc.,

Especially for trees leaves, the requirements for the shape of the tree are quite high and these useless branches must be pruned, which can be pruned at any time.

In addition, some flowering plants should be pruned in time after flowering, the remaining flower buds and wilted flowers need to be pruned in time… otherwise they will continue to consume nutrients, harming the health of the environment. tree growth.

Some flowers bloom on new branches, so pruning after bloom is important to encourage new shoots and flowers to have a place to bloom again. There are also some flowers that are pruned, the more they like it, if not, the flowers will not bloom, such as jasmine, rose.

3. Do not change pots or soil for bonsai

Many people grow bonsai without consciously changing the pot and soil. In other words, there are still some of you who are still passive when growing bonsai.

Lack of water, irrigate, lack of nutrients, fertilize, lack of soil, add soil, this is the principle when growing ornamental plants. If you buy a pot of bonsai and take it home for a year without changing the pot, of course the pot cannot continue to grow.

Think about it, when you plant corn, rice, and potatoes, the first thing you need to do is plow the land, so is the planting of ornamental plants. If you keep a bonsai for a few years without changing the soil, without turning the potting soil, no matter how strong the bonsai is, its growth will become worse and worse.

The right way is to repot your houseplant once a year. Specifically, if the pot is small, the soil can be changed once a year, the medium pot is 1-2 years/time, the large pot is 3 years/time. This is the basic knowledge when you grow bonsai in pots.

4. Watering bonsai indiscriminately

This is a small mistake and misunderstanding that most of you who are new to bonsai make. People are often afraid that bonsai will die, so they regularly water them. But you don’t know that this is harming the bonsai.

Your own hand “watered” the tree, but you do not know why you take care of the tree, but the tree wilts and dies. In fact, it wilts and dies not because of lack of water, but because it has rotted roots or because you water it a lot but you don’t water it enough.

The roots of bonsai are in the lower part of the potting soil, if the amount of water is not much, only water the upper part of the pot, the lower part is still dry, the roots will not absorb enough water. The wet top soil, dry bottom surface also causes poor respiration, lack of oxygen and other phenomena that cause the plant to die.

There are also some people who water too much, making the bonsai “dead”. You must know that even the so-called “water gardenia” can only be watered under certain conditions.

At the very least, you need to have a well-ventilated environment and water the plants in a “wet-dry” cycle, ensuring that the soil does not become waterlogged, causing waterlogging or root rot.

That is, when the soil is dry, it needs to be watered and watered thoroughly, making sure the water overflows from the bottom of the pot and is completely wet. As for testing the dryness, the surface soil is 2-3cm dry, it can be irrigated.

5. Fertilizer for messy bonsai

For bonsai to grow well, fertilizing is indispensable. However, many bonsai growers have misunderstandings about this point.

As well as not knowing how to change the soil for bonsai, many of you do not have knowledge about fertilizing bonsai. Listening to good rice water tips, many friends take water to wash rice and water the plants.

But they do not know that rice water must decompose to be good for plants. Newly washed rice water is harmful to plants. The decomposition process of “live” rice water will generate heat, heating the roots, burning the roots.

Some of you have a habit of fertilizing ornamental plants but only use 1 type of fertilizer to fertilize bonsai. You must know that the nutrients in each fertilizer are different and the nutrients required for different growth stages of bonsai are also different.

During the period of bonsai growth, it is best to use nitrogen fertilizer as the main one, supplement phosphorus and potassium fertilizers. During the flowering bonsai period, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers should be used as the main fertilizers, supplementing with different trace elements.

In summary, here are 5 common misunderstandings of indoor bonsai growers. If you do not understand correctly, it is difficult to plant lush plants and flowers.

(According to SH)