The bonsai tree pruning is for styling and shaping it, up keeping the shape, breaking an unpleasant and wrong growth bonsai branch, or favoring the buds apparition.

Shaping the bonsai tree

One of the pruning operations and the main one when you decide to shape the bonsai tree is that which is consisting in removing the branches for making a design. Don’t forget about the triangle style when you begin to cut and also keep in mind a design schedule that is for following every spring.
Just remove the part that you want more to ramify or wire back another branch in one or other more suitable position if that particular zone is not covered by the branches and thus is cluttering the entire basic design. Anyway, these procedures have to be done in spring, meaning in growing season.
In a way or another, there are the same pruning tips:
• cut the branch just above the leaf for favoring the new sprigs sprouting
• the position that the last leaf is disposed towards, left or right, is the new branches ramification direction.
• the bonsai leaves are growing at once with the branches elongation. So, if you want to avoid that, remove the branch just after the new leaves apparition.
In case of removing the main branches, pay attention on the cutting method. Make the cut as closer as can be to the bonsai trunk and in parallel with it. Then dress the lesion with lute. Thus bonsai will heal faster.

Keeping up bonsai shape

The specific pruning for keeping up the initial bonsai design is done in the period between the end of the spring and the mid of summer.
What to remove? Make the bonsai pruning when:
• some branches have a wrong growth, cluttering the initial bonsai design
• some leaves are growing to large
• to more foliage
• some juvenile branches are growing a lot to long or over ramifying

Favoring the sprigs and buds sprouting

Can do that in summer, when the bonsai tree is developing new buds. Pinch the branch from the point you want it to sprout, pinch the leaves and buds to encourage back budding and foliage growing rich.

Buy a bonsai tree or make it all by yourself and enjoy it!

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