Pruning method: the end of the cut should be avoided as much as possible, the large side and branch tangent at an angle of 45 degrees, the leaf buds stay in the direction of the upper side of the slant. In the growing season, can post close to the leaf bud pruning, conducive to wound healing. Non-growing period, can be pruned at the upper end of the leaf bud.

1. Positioning pruning: this refers to the first pruning of osmanthus modeling, to determine the retention of different positions of the branches, cut off the excess branches. Mountain wild dug stumps, cultivation after survival, sprouting a lot of branches, must be cut off most of the branches, to retain the modeling needs of the backbone of the branches, which is called so-called positioning cut. Positioning cut, determine the number of branches, location and mutual distance between branches, it directly affects the beauty of osmanthus bonsai. Retained branches should grow strong, up and down the thickness of the coordination, try to avoid parallel, symmetrical, overlapping, so that the sparse and dense, around the main trunk up and down, left and right to expand, with momentum.

2. Shrinkage pruning: a pruning method to shorten the branches, but also tree modeling and maintenance of the tree landscape is an important measure. In terms of modeling, through the reduction of the tree dwarfing, branch plumping, from top to bottom thickness, bending change.

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Pruning time: grafted osmanthus should be pruned in the dormant season. Plum rainy season rain, air humidity, tree growth, should be less cut, or not re-cut, a large number of branches and leaves are cut off will affect normal growth, and in severe cases lead to death. In addition, near the end of the fall can not be pruned, strong pruning after the new shoots are sprouting, the cold front will freeze the shoots. Heavy cutting, strong cutting the best time for 1-2 months trees in the dormant period.

Osmanthus bonsai mainly rely on the removal of buds, centering to control the overgrowth of branches, to maintain the original appearance. Dormant period can be scaled back, the growing period is not suitable for scaling back. Dormant period for strong pruning, remove a variety of taboo branches.

Reference Baidu Encyclopedia - Osmanthus