How to cultivate banyan bonsai
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Banyan trees have a graceful posture, strong and ancient, evergreen all year round, and symbolize longevity and auspiciousness, always loved by people and often made into beautiful bonsai for appreciation.
Banyan trees prefer a warm and humid environment. When maintaining a potted plant at home, it should be provided with a good growing environment, with proper watering and fertilizing, and reasonable lighting to make the plant grow luxuriantly.
I. Planting Cultivation Soil
Banyan trees are acid-loving plants. The potting soil should be rich in organic matter and have good water permeability and breathability. A mixture of decayed leaf soil, peat soil, garden soil, coal slag, and coarse sand can be used as the cultivation soil. If the cultivation soil becomes too alkaline, it can easily cause the leaves to turn yellow and the plant to grow weak.
II. Watering Requirements
Banyan trees are moisture-loving plants. During routine maintenance, the potting soil should be kept slightly moist, avoiding excessive dryness or waterlogging. Long-term waterlogging can easily cause a large number of yellow leaves to fall. Each watering should be done when the soil is dry and wet, and watered thoroughly. In the hot summer season, the potted plant should be placed in a cool and ventilated place, and the plant should be watered frequently to achieve the effect of cooling and increasing humidity.
III. Fertilization Management
The growth of the plant cannot do without sufficient nutrients. If it is not fertilized for a long time, lacks nutrients, the leaf edges will also turn yellow, and the bottom leaves will gradually fall off. To make the plant grow vigorously, you can apply a compound fertilizer of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium once a month, or often apply some well-fermented organic fertilizer solution.
When fertilizing the banyan tree, it is also not advisable to apply too much nitrogen fertilizer. It is best to use a combination of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, otherwise, it will cause the branches and leaves to grow excessively and lose the original tree shape, affecting the ornamental effect.
Banyan Bonsai Cultivation
IV. Reasonable Lighting
When the plant lacks light for a long time, it will affect normal growth and cause the leaves to turn yellow and fall. Sufficient lighting can make the plant grow vigorously and the leaves greener and brighter. Therefore, it is also necessary to move the potted plant to a place with sunlight frequently, allowing the plant to perform photosynthesis better. However, in summer, avoid strong sunlight to prevent sunburn on the tender leaves.
V. Pruning and Shaping
Banyan bonsai branches and leaves grow fast and need to be pruned and shaped frequently, while also cultivating the root system to achieve a perfect combination. The shaping of banyan trees mainly involves cutting, with winding as a supplement. For small plants of one or two years, it is not suitable to prune excessively. Let them germinate first. If there are too many and disordered branches, a small number of disordered branches can be cut in spring. After they grow thick and strong, corresponding pruning can be done.
For mature banyan bonsai, cut off the excessive growth branches, concurrent branches, weak and diseased branches, and intersecting branches during spring and autumn, making the whole look sparse and dense, harmonious and natural.
Banyan trees are a southern species, preferring warm and humid climates. When growing potted plants in the north, it is necessary to provide a warm and humid growing environment as much as possible, and after entering winter, it is important to transfer the potted plants to a warm room for maintenance in time.
The above introduction about how to cultivate banyan bonsai and the maintenance knowledge of small-leafed banyan potted plants, I hope everyone will like it!