How To Making Mini Bonsai Step By Step-Beginners Guide
How to Make Super-mini Bonsai
Once you’ve got the tools and plant stock ready, it’s finally time to make super-mini bonsai! First, learn the basics, then once you’ve got the hang of things, try out different compositions. After making one super-mini bonsai, you’re sure to want to make more.
How to Make Super-mini Bonsai
Here, I’m making a super-mini bonsai from a Japanese box cutting. Understanding how to prepare and plant a seedling or cutting and how to use sphagnum moss and other mosses form the basis of making and repotting super-mini bonsai.
You will need
• Seedling or cutting
• Pot
• Soil
• Sphagnum moss
• Moss
Tools
• Scissors
• Tweezers
• Small spoon (for filling the pot with soil)
• Bucket or large container (to hold plenty of water)
1. Remove dead or damaged leaves as well as unnecessary leaves at the lower end of the stalk to neaten the cutting or seedling. Match the plant and the pot
2. Check whether the plant complements the pot and whether it will look attractive once planted
3. Test the position the plant in the pot to see whether it looks balanced. The plant can be positioned in the center or towards the edge of the pot.
4. Add a spoonful of soil. Start off by adding enough to lightly cover the base of the pot
5. Carefully pace the plant in the pot from the tips of the roots, making sure not to damage them.
6. Keeping what will become the front of the plant and pot in mind to create good balance, secure the plant in the pot.
7. Hold the plant in place as you add soil.
8. Use tweezers to push soil into gaps between the roots.
9. Add more soil, using tweezers to push soil in and fill gaps
10. Use tweezers to push soil in.
11. Repeat the step of adding soil and pushing it into place with tweezers several times until the soil is packed in to a level just below the rim of the pot.
12. Shred a small amount of sphagnum moss and soak it in water to prepare it.
13 . Lay it on top of the soil
14. Prepare moss and use tweezers to pinch off a little at a time.
15. Use tweezers to lightly push into sphagnum moss and gently plant moss in.
16. In the same way, plant moss in two other spots in the pot, keeping overall balance in mind
17. Carefully place the super-mini bonsai in a bucket or container full of water.
Leave it there for about 10 seconds, until bubbles have stopped appearing.
18. In order for the plant to take to the soil and stabilize, place in a semi-shaded spot for about a week to 10 days after planting and water every day, monitoring the condition.
Important Notice
When repotting at the optimal time (March), trees are dormant so it’s fine to cut the roots, but if repotting at other times, avoid cutting the roots as much as possible to lessen the damage to the tree. If it’s impossible to avoid cutting the roots, remove the same amount of leaves from the tree to maintain balance. There is a definite outer and inner side to each tree. Consider a Japanese garden—many rooms built for viewing gardens are south facing. Trees grow the most leaves on the south side, which gets the most sun, so the side of the tree viewed from the room is the one with fewer leaves. In other words, the side with fewer leaves is the outer side or front of the tree. However, when making super-mini bonsai there’s no need to worry too much about this as long as it looks attractive when planted!
In order for the roots to spread out equally inside the pot and ensure that the super-mini bonsai lasts for a long time, it’s best to position the tree in the center of the pot. However, shaping the tree your own way, such as setting the trunk on a diagonal angle, is one of the joys of bonsai too. To angle the trunk diagonally, position the tree at the edge of the pot. Once you get the hang of super-mini bonsai, visualize the end result and have a go at various ways of planting.
How to Make Super-mini Bonsai Step By Step Guide
1. Remove dead or damaged leaves as well as unnecessary leaves at the lower end of the stalk to neaten the cutting or seedling. Match the plant and the pot
2. Check whether the plant complements the pot and whether it will look attractive once planted
3. Test the position the plant in the pot to see whether it looks balanced. The plant can be positioned in the center or towards the edge of the pot.
4. Add a spoonful of soil. Start off by adding enough to lightly cover the base of the pot
5. Carefully pace the plant in the pot from the tips of the roots, making sure not to damage them.
6. Keeping what will become the front of the plant and pot in mind to create good balance, secure the plant in the pot.
7. Hold the plant in place as you add soil.
8. Use tweezers to push soil into gaps between the roots.
9. Add more soil, using tweezers to push soil in and fill gaps
10. Use tweezers to push soil in.
11. Repeat the step of adding soil and pushing it into place with tweezers several times until the soil is packed in to a level just below the rim of the pot.
12. Shred a small amount of sphagnum moss and soak it in water to prepare it.
13 . Lay it on top of the soil
14. Prepare moss and use tweezers to pinch off a little at a time.
15. Use tweezers to lightly push into sphagnum moss and gently plant moss in.
16. In the same way, plant moss in two other spots in the pot, keeping overall balance in mind
17. Carefully place the super-mini bonsai in a bucket or container full of water.
Leave it there for about 10 seconds, until bubbles have stopped appearing.
18. In order for the plant to take to the soil and stabilize, place in a semi-shaded spot for about a week to 10 days after planting and water every day, monitoring the condition.
Important Notice
When repotting at the optimal time (March), trees are dormant so it’s fine to cut the roots, but if repotting at other times, avoid cutting the roots as much as possible to lessen the damage to the tree. If it’s impossible to avoid cutting the roots, remove the same amount of leaves from the tree to maintain balance. There is a definite outer and inner side to each tree. Consider a Japanese garden—many rooms built for viewing gardens are south facing. Trees grow the most leaves on the south side, which gets the most sun, so the side of the tree viewed from the room is the one with fewer leaves. In other words, the side with fewer leaves is the outer side or front of the tree. However, when making super-mini bonsai there’s no need to worry too much about this as long as it looks attractive when planted!
In order for the roots to spread out equally inside the pot and ensure that the super-mini bonsai lasts for a long time, it’s best to position the tree in the center of the pot. However, shaping the tree your own way, such as setting the trunk on a diagonal angle, is one of the joys of bonsai too. To angle the trunk diagonally, position the tree at the edge of the pot. Once you get the hang of super-mini bonsai, visualize the end result and have a go at various ways of planting.
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