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- Draw a blood beech as a bonsai - tips for care
- Pull blood beech as bonsai
- How to achieve a beautiful bonsai shape
- So take care of your bonsai blood beech
- Be careful with the wire
- Tips
The beech is a very special bonsai because of its beautiful red leaves
Draw a blood beech as a bonsai - tips for care
Blood beech with its colorful reddish brown foliage also look good as a bonsai. The tree is very cut compatible and can be cut into almost any desired shape. Tips for the care of blood beech as bonsai.
Pull blood beech as bonsai
In the blood beech all bonsai forms are possible. In addition to the simple forest-style also Doppelstämmer and Mehrfachstämmer look very decorative.
Choose a sufficiently large bowl, which must necessarily have a good water outlet. Waterlogging does not tolerate waterlogging. Create a thin drainage layer.
As a plant substrate is a bonsai mixture of humus, Akadama and lava rock.
How to achieve a beautiful bonsai shape
Every two years the blood beech is repotted. The root ball is shortened more. The best time to repot is the early spring.
Cut the beech into shape before sprouting. Shorten the branches so that a branch piece of one centimeter in length lingers over each eye.
The blood beech drives out again in June. These shoots, called Johannistriebe, are completely removed.
So take care of your bonsai blood beech
The root ball should never completely dry out. Water regularly, but avoid waterlogging.
From sprouting, the bonsai in the shell needs regular fertilizer. A long-term fertilizer is just as good as a fertilizer, which is given weekly.
In a very shady spot, the bonsai grows larger leaves. Therefore, place the beech in as sunny a location as possible.
Be careful with the wire
As long as the shoots are still young, you can make the bonsai blood beech by wire in the desired shape. Use caution as the bark is easily damaged. For safety's sake wrap the raffia with raffia in front of the wire.
Older shoots you can only wire under great pressure. There is a risk that the wire grows. With these branches you should do without the wire better, in order not to damage the Bonsai.
Tips
Blood beech is hardy, also called bonsai. Nevertheless, you should protect the shell from frost if you overwinter the bonsai blood beech outside. Alternatively, you can take them out of the shell and plant them in the garden until spring.