Summertime is one of the best times of 12 months for bonsai
and can become the worst!. Rapidly increasing temperatures and hot dried out
winds can be a recipe intended for disaster if your bonsai will be left
unattended for any period.
Watering to your trees requirements, positioning your trees
far from direct sunlight and sheltered coming from strong winds are probably
the most crucial things to consider, and the hardest what you should get right,
especially if you really are a 9 to 5 worker and not in the home most of the
day to attend on your trees should they dry out or perhaps get blown over.
IF YOU
SHOULD WATER YOUR BONSAI:
If you should water your bonsai is essentially determined by
your lifestyle!
If you don't have a higher-tech automatic watering program
or a full-time gardener and then you’re someone who works all day you only have
2 options.
A few books and nurseries recommend watering every day,
first thing each morning.
The only problem I discover with this is that during the
day, your tree has to absorb water to replenish the usual needs, as well as
change the moisture being dropped through its foliage, simultaneously as water
is being evaporated from the soil by the sunlight.
If this process becomes out of balance and the soil is
exhausted of moisture too early inside the day, your bonsai does not have any
chance of replenishing moisture misplaced from its foliage and if this kind of
goes is unchecked then it will not receive more water until the following
morning.
If you begin work early, or like lots of people have more
than enough to perform each morning before rushing away to work, then
sprinkling in the afternoon or night is your next best option.
Sprinkling in the evening or late evening is my preference
however, you still have to be careful as being a variety of bonsai are prone to
fungi on branches and leaves if left damp to get too long. Watering only the
ground and avoiding the plants from getting wet is a great way to avoid any
major yeast issues.
Even if a woods has moist soil at the moment, I will usually
still drinking water it as you have more possibility of killing your bonsai by
drying out then you do over providing water it at this time of yr.
Some
other ways to keep your bonsai tree watered.
Another way you can maintain water up to your bonsai tree is
to place it in a superficial container with a few centimeters of water at the
bottom. Types such as swamp cypress are more than happy in a dish of water and
trees and shrubs such as figs appreciate the moisture caused by the water
evaporating from your tray of water beneath them.
Covering the soil within your bonsai pot with little stone,
moss or additional natural-looking coverage may also act as mulch and also slow
up the evaporation rate of dampness from the soil.
Keep a little area of soil uncovered so that you can check
to make sure the ground is not dry or perhaps too damp as some mosses will hold
water or get rid of water while the soil under can be the opposite.
POSITIONING
THE BONSAI
An obvious way to slow down how much water the bonsai needs
is placing it where it just gets early morning sun for some hours each day then
is usually shaded during the hottest areas of the day. This minimizes the
quantity of moisture evaporated from the dirt and the foliage.
SAFEGUARDING
YOUR BONSAI
Strong warm dry winds can not simply rapidly dry out the
leaves on your bonsai and burn off tender new foliage, it may also blow trees
off their particular stands breaking pots, or perhaps blowing trees clean out
with their pots leaving exposed origins to dry out and trigger irreversible
damage.
Building displays or placing trees exactly where they are
protected from solid winds, taking trees away from their stands if good winds
are forecast, and wiring your tree into their pot or to its stand, are a few
things you can do to avoid blowing wind being a problem.
PESTS
Infestations are extremely active at this time of year and
can do a large amount of damage in a small amount of time. Avoidance is always
better than cure. Do that by keeping your bonsai cut to minimize places that
pests can hide, and regularly checking them more than for signs of pest or
perhaps the disease is the best way to stay abreast of them.
Remove pests manually, if you can or keep a can of white
essential oil or pyrethrum on hand which should work on most infestations.
NOTE: Don't spray upon foliage in the middle of the day
because this will burn the plants. Most pests are more energetic at night, so
this is a good time for you to hit them.
Keeping the bonsai alive and healthful at this time of year
ought to set it up for several good bursts open of growth and an opportunity to
train and refine the bonsai more and more year after year.
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