How To Care Juniper Bonsai Tree-Juniper Growing Tips

How To Care  Juniper Bonsai Tree-Juniper Growing Tips

 

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 juniper us SPP is one of the most tried-and-true bonsai plants even for novice bonsai gardeners. some juniper s are naturally prost rate such as junipers chinens is farm s sergeant ee while others are upright such as junipers chinens is fair view both perennials in u.s. department of agriculture .plant hardiness zones four through nine regardless of their natural shapes all juniper bonsai. specimens are trained to resemble miniature trees and they all require the same care watering and fertilizing the art of bonsai. requires you to prune a plant as roots and grow it in a small shallow container with the roots restricted this way the plant s top growth develops into a miniature. version of the plants natural shape because the small pots contain a limited amount of soil adequately watering and fertilizing. a Juniper bonsai is critical to its health the American bonsai Society recommend s letting the soil dry slightly before watering your juniper but cautions against allowing it to dry completely . if the soil surface is dry water thoroughly until the excess flows from the pot as drainage holes from spring to early summer fertilize with the 20-20-20 . water-soluble formulation for potted plants .which is typically two tea spoons of fertilizer dissolved in a gallon of water applied at a rate of one quart per square foot of soil follow the label recommendations if they vary from this example with hold fertilizer in the summer and use the same formulation a t one-quarter the recommended rate in the fall son and soil juniper bonsai trees flourish in full Sun as long as How to Input 


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the soil does not dry completely they grow best when they are periodically. reported typically plans up to six years old need to be reported every two years older plants need reporting every three to five years you can repot juniper any time during its growing season. but with hold fertilizer for thirty to sixty days after ward you can use the commercially prepared mix labeled for bonsai or you can make your own a suitable potting. mix includes equal parts of humor sore ground pine bark sand or per lite and clay pruning and plucking typically pruning a plant means trimming the above-ground parts but to care for a bonsai plant you must also prune its roots allow juniper to grow in its container with the roots intact unless it shows signs of decline the roots heave it out of the pot or s time to repost it at any of these times remove the plant from its container remove the soil from around the roots and comb the roots gently to separate them. cut out the roots that have become stiff and wiry and trim the softer fibrous roots spreading them out when you repost the plant shape the top growth is desired by using scissors or h and held pruners. to snip the stems don t use pruning tools to cut across the evergreen needles because the cut surfaces will turn brown instead pluck out the tender new growth with your thumb and fore finger to style the plant pests and diseases sanitize pruning tools to mitigate the spread of disease by immersing them ,


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 for five minutes in a solution of one part bleach and three parts water rinse the pruners with water .before making any cuts the small size of juniper bonsai makes it easier to remove pests by hand. instead of using chemical treatments which may over whelm the small plants spider mites are occasionally bother some you can identify these pests by gently shaking the juniper branch over a sheet of white paper if mites are present they will drop and crawl in the paper spraying the foli age frequently with water dislodges the mites back worms are the larval state of a moth that construct bag-like cocoons which has the larvae as they feed on juniper foliage and in case the larvae when they pupate it is easy work to h and pick these cocoons and destroy them so cater pillars cannot feed on the plants