Bonsai trees keep growing. If it is allowed to grow naturally without restraint, it will inevitably affect the attitude of the tree and lose its artistic value. How to trim bonsai? Bonsai pruning includes the following aspects:
1, coring
In order to inhibit the growth of bonsai trees and promote the development of lateral branches, the tender heads of trees can be picked.
Step 2 pick flower buds
When adventitious buds grow on the stem base or stem of bonsai trees, they should be picked at any time to avoid the buds growing into branches and affecting the beauty of the trees. Especially in the snow, elm, Bromus inermis, Yingchun, willow and other tree species are prone to produce adventitious buds, so we should pay more attention when picking buds.
Step 3 pick leaves
For foliage tree bonsai, the viewing period is often the germination period of new leaves, such as maple and pomegranate, which are all red. By picking leaves, trees can grow new leaves several times a year, thus prolonging the viewing time and effect. Bonsai trees such as elm and ginkgo can also enjoy their fresh leaves by picking their leaves.
Step 4 trim
Many new branches often grow in bonsai trees. In order to keep the beautiful shape of trees, they must be pruned frequently. The pruning method depends on the tree shape. If it is cloud-shaped, trim the branches into a flat shape. Dead branches, parallel branches, cross branches and other generally unsightly branches should be cut off in time.
Step 5: Trim
When turning the basin, it should be combined with root pruning. If the root system is too dense and too long, it should be trimmed, which can be considered according to the following conditions. If the new roots of trees are poorly developed and the roots are not densely covered at the bottom of the clods, the original pots can still be used when turning over the pots without pruning the roots. For tree species with developed roots, if the fibrous roots are densely covered on the bottom of the clods, it is necessary to change the pots slightly, thin the dense roots, remove the old roots, and leave a few new roots to turn over the pots. Some old piles of bonsai can take root properly when turning over the pots to increase their ornamental value. The old roots and root tips are pruned and cultivated in loose and fertile soil to promote the production of new roots.
Pruning bonsai is a means, and how to prune it more in line with the law of beauty is worth discussing. Of course, everyone's personality, temperament and cultivation are different, and aesthetic orientation cannot be unified. However, bonsai, as an art category, has its corresponding laws, and it is necessary to master the application of the proportion, angle and aesthetic factors of the outline in the overall pruning.
1. Keep branches, support branches, and delete redundant branches. Pile-blank cultivation, overgrown branches and buds, uncertain deletion, difficult cutting, or wrong cutting due to biased concept. Although it can be adjusted, it will prolong the time of branch storage and modeling, because setting support is the premise of the structure. According to the personality characteristics of the pile material, such as straight, oblique, curved, lying, hanging and facing the water, it is integrated into the author's conception image, leaving branches to stand upright and deleting all miscellaneous branches and redundant buds.
2, the proportion is coordinated, and the pruning is exquisite. The thickness and length of branches should be compared, and when and where to cut them runs through the whole process of making potted tree shapes, which is related to all parts of potted tree structure. At the same time, the ratio of branches to stems, the ratio of branches to scaffolds, and the cascade comparison of main and secondary veins in branches and scaffolds. Before cutting, you must be clear and have a careful plan, so that you can cut the branches and end up just right.
3, angle orientation, precise and fine cutting. The angle, branching direction and mutual unevenness of branches and buds reflect that branches and brackets bend up and down, left and right in space, and the angle is not chosen properly. Although it can be supplemented by Pinza, it is not as good as the natural state after all. Therefore, when choosing the angle of bud point, we should not only pay attention to one, but also ignore the other, that is, we should not only clarify the branch direction, spatial state, and the relationship with other branches and supports, but also "advance".
4, contour control, comprehensive pruning. The outline represents the overall tree state of the basin tree, that is, the so-called triangle or equilateral triangle. Here, the length of a single branch should be subordinate to the whole, and points and lines should be integrated into a whole face. Overall observation, partial pruning and overall adjustment, at this time, potted trees tend to be plump and mature, which belongs to the clean stage of modeling, and its focus is on the opening and closing of branches and the overall relationship of verandah.
In a word, cutting is a visual operation, and how to cut is a potential thinking. The combination of the two is a thorough pruning. In fact, how to cut off the characteristics of plants is, to a great extent, an artistic aesthetic category, and it is by no means a cover for the word "cut". As mentioned above, pruning involves only a few links.