The wild mountain area often has some fire buckthorn, yellow thorn, mountain elm, etc., often have a lot of stumps of pale strong and jagged, after a period of time after digging back to the stumps, and then on the pots and planting, and gradually processed it into a beautiful bonsai. The following is to introduce to you the potting and daily maintenance method of fire buckthorn, hoping to provide a little help to bonsai lovers.
1.Requirements of culture soil
The sea buckthorn has strong adaptability to the environment, and can be planted in early spring or fall. Generally, after digging back, it should be potted after one year's maintenance. The culture soil for potting should be loose, fertile, breathable and well-drained. If you make your own culture soil, you can use 4 parts of leaf-rotted soil, 3 parts of garden soil, 2 parts of coarse sand and 1 part of compost, and then mix them well to make culture soil for planting sea buckthorn.
2.POTTING METHODS
When re-potting the sea buckthorn after staking, first choose the suitable pot according to the size of the plant, and put the drainage holes in the bottom of the pot with gauze mesh or tiles, so as to drain away the excess water. Fill in a layer of cinder or coarse sand as a drainage layer, and then fill in part of the culture soil, will be adjusted to the position of the plant, fill in the soil while pressing the soil around the solid, so that the root system and the culture of the soil tightly combined, planted, watered once, placed in a cool, ventilated place to slow down the seedling.
3, fertilization management
Fire buckthorn in the new pots, no fertilization for the time being, to wait for three months later, during the growth period can be fertilized to promote the development of the plant, can be applied once every half a month to the fermentation of cake fertilizer water or compound fertilizer. Plants in the bud before flowering, to ensure adequate phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, adequate phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, can promote the plant flowering and fruiting, so that the plant hangs more fruit. Before flowering, you can water a dilute solution of potassium dihydrogen phosphate in water every 10 days or so, and you can usually apply fermented chicken manure, bone meal and other organic fertilizers to the potting soil, which can make the plant increase the amount of fruits, and the fruits will be more reddish in color when they are ripe.
4, watering requirements
Firethorn growth branches and leaves, in order to make the plant maintain a good momentum, in its growth to maintain sufficient water, potting soil should not be too dry. Especially during the flowering and fruiting period, the potting soil is too dry, which will cause flower and fruit drop. Usually watering can do "dry through watering", but also to avoid the formation of stagnant water in the pot, otherwise it is easy to cause root rot, potting soil is too wet is also easy to make the flowers and fruits fall off. Summer water evaporation fast, potting soil is easy to dry, should be supplemented with water at any time. Winter plants into dormancy, less water demand, can reduce watering, keep the potting soil slightly wet and dry.
5, pruning and shaping
Firethorn branches and leaves grow fast, so if you don't pay attention to pruning, it is easy to lose the original tree type. Therefore, it is necessary to prune and shape the branches and leaves which are too messy. During the growing period, you can always thin out the dense branches, cut off the dead and sick branches, and remove the messy branches properly, which can not only reduce the consumption of nutrients, but also increase the ventilation and light transmission of the plant, and make the plant type more beautiful.
6, light requirement
In the process of maintaining sea buckthorn, it is necessary to ensure that there is enough light time, the plant can grow luxuriantly and finish flowering and fruiting only under the condition of sufficient light. If it lacks sunlight for a long time, the plant will grow branches and leaves in vain, which will affect the normal flowering and fruiting. Therefore, you should put the fire buckthorn in a sunny place for maintenance.
When extracting sea buckthorn in the wild to make bonsai, it is better to use pure river sand to raise the pile, and after the plant sprouts new roots again and becomes fully alive, then it will be potted for maintenance and gradually pruned and styled, and then it will be processed into a beautiful bonsai with the passage of time.