Bonsai Trees Care

The art of growing bonsai brings into small pots, trees that naturally are living in nature. In order to successfully train these trees, you need to create optimal growing conditions. The “optimum growth conditions” are different from specie to specie; some species can handle periods of relative dryness, others require near-constant moisture. One of the most important aspect is watering your bonsai, how much to water,, and when to water.

Depending on how you provide the quality of watering, is very close to how healthy your bonsai is.

• If you badly over-water (your bonsai tree soil is too wet) you will cause root rot occurrence, you will kill the tree’s roots, rot the trunks, and eventually you’ll kill the plant. There’s not much that can be done if the trunk of the plant is soggy and rotting even if some leaves are still green.
If your bonsai is not badly damaged, in order to heal your bonsai you must remove the rotted roots and change the soil.
You need also to revise your watering technique so that the soil does not remain so wet. Keep fertilizer to a minimum until your plant health has improved.

• If you forget to water and the trunk is hard with vertical creases showing, it’s dried out; the leaves will have a dull sandpapery appearance. Trim off the bad leaves, rinse off any rotted areas, totally saturate the media, and place in a poly-bag or wide mouth gallon jar. The high humidity will reduce the load on the roots and roots may recover. After the first new leaf develops, open the cover for a few days, and if the new leaf stays up, place it back to it’s normal growing area.