Bonsai Care
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- Category: Bonsai Care
I am not going to bore you with my personal views on bonsai pottery. So I keep it brief and point you to the references that are meaningful. This is by far the most insightful YouTube I watched about quality of clay and glaze to date:
https://youtu.be/KgsoSudK14Q?si=e_wFv5O3SuOzxpIQ
Are you contemplating to baking boinsai pots yourself? NaoTokutake, a reknowned American potter recommends digitalfire.com and you will figure it out.
If you have taken the time to widen your perspective on what is optimal, and you are living in Europe, then have a look at the quality and pricing of this Czechia's oldest and most reknowned source for bonsai gear. You might understand why this is my favourite source of oven baked bonsai pots.
(Hint: to view a pot in high resolution: RightClick -> "Open Image in New Tab".)
If you have a more refined taste, and you have a flavor for Europe's finest potters, why not have a look at https://europeanbonsaipottercollective.ecwid.com/ and source your bonsai pot directly from the artist.
There is more: a great resource courtesy of Angelica Ramirez https://www.arbonsaiart.com/european-potters.html
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- Category: Other Deciduous Bonsai
Do not fertilize in spring until the leaves have grown out.
One thing I learned very quickly is to never fertilize any deciduous tree until the leaves have flushed out in spring. The reason for that is very simple: as we want internodes to be as short as possible and have a tight ramification on the tree, fertilizing in spring - especially with high nitrogen fertilizers- would push the tree to produce longer internodes. Having too much space between each leaf is is exactly that which we want to avoid. The second problem is that high nitrogen fertilizers stimulate the bonsai tree to produce much larger leaves. That too is not on our want-list.
Wiring and styling flowering apcricot trees is typically done in early spring when the leaves have flushed out and hardened off. It is the only time of the year that the branches are very flexible and will not break off. Don't try to wire at other times of the year, your branches are guaranteed to snap when you do. Use a slightly tighter pitch then 45° when wiring because of that brittleness of apricot branches. Better use a thinner wire and double up, rather than using a thick wire.
YouTubes
by Eisei-en (Bjorn Bjorholm) Defoliating Flowering Apricot Bonsai
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- Category: Conifers
Development Potting:
Develop Sekka Hinoki in low unglazed pots (e.g. Japanese terracotta pots)
Overwintering:
Try to overwinter the Sekka Hinoki in a frost free place. The trees that have overwintered free of frost will grow out faster and ealier than the ones that have been in frosty conditions.
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- Category: Acers
Anticipating to pruning your Japanese Maple right on time? This is one of the best autumn maintenance tutorials on Acer palmatum bonsai I have seen to date. Graham Potter of Kaizen Bonsai shares meticulously why the timing is so important and how to pay attention to pruning, detailing his vision of long term development of his tree.
Why should we prune our Japanese Mape right before leaf drop ?
Graham Potter: "the reason to prune the tree right before the leaves naturally drop is because we've got a few weeks where it's not going to be typically cold. So even if the tree has no leaves, the roots are still actively pushing nutrients into the tree and the buds. For that reason, the growth in the spring will be much more even. This is the benefit of this pruning."
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