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Bonsai pruning is one of the most important things in bonsai care. By doing the pruning you’ll give to the bonsai tree the shape that you want, you can shorten it and get the bonsai tree stem thickening too.
First of all, we want to point out that you have to:

• name it for a better contact with the bonsai tree, which is good too for its health and vigor

• water bonsai plant once a day or two, but don’t over water it

• keep it in high humidity places

• do not expose the bonsai in direct sun and hot temperature

• make the pruning in spring (there are some particular species of bonsai tree that are admitting the summer cuttings)

• prune the bonsai crown so that it takes the triangle shape

• cover the cut sector or branches lesion with diameter over 0.5 cm with lute, for helping the bonsai healing.

• use only clean and sharp gardening and cutting instruments

• the above part of the bonsai tree is growing faster than the inferior part of it, so cut mostly the edge of bonsai treetop

Conifer bonsai pruning

There are no pruning for conifer bonsai, but pinching. If the conifer bonsai branch remains without needles, it will die. This thing never happens to the other bonsai tree species, deciduous ones, which are increasing the ramification after the cutting, but in case of conifers, the cutting is favoring apparition of the new buds behind.

Flowering bonsai tree pruning

Don’t prune the flowering bonsai plant in the same way as the green bonsai, because there is the risk of loosing the bonsai flowers. So make the pruning in summer, after the flowering period, when you can distinguish the floral buds and the new sprigs.

Enjoy your bonsai tree!