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- Can a room fir be kept as a bonsai?
- Room firs can hardly be cut into shape
- Carefully prune roots
- Maintain room fir as bonsai
- Tips
The room fir is difficult to cut into shape, but you can keep it small
Can a room fir be kept as a bonsai?
Experienced bonsai fans advise against cultivating a room fir as bonsai. Since the tree does not cut well and wires are also not possible, most of the room firs, which are held as bonsai, go in a short time.
Room firs can hardly be cut into shape
A room fir takes it quickly, if it is too much pruned. From the waste wood do not drift new branches, so that each removed branch is irretrievably lost. The branches can not be wired. They fall back to the old form when the wire is removed.
You can try to restrict the growth of a room fir by capping it up. Cut off the tip, drive out several lateral shoots. As a result, the classic shape of the room fir is lost.
Nevertheless, there are attempts to hang the newly expelled tips hanging, creating an albeit unusual bonsai shape. However, you must expect that the room pine does not forgive the pruning and received.
Carefully prune roots
To limit the growth of the room fir, you can prune the root ball while repotting it. But be careful and do not cut too much.
The bonsai room fir is replanted only every two years because it is not very fast growing. The best time to repot is the early spring.
Maintain room fir as bonsai
Maintaining a room fir as bonsai is not easy, as the tree does not forgive care mistakes and unsuitable locations so quickly.
At a suitable location the room fir is very bright but not sunny. In summer it can tolerate temperatures between 7 and 22 degrees, in winter it can not get warmer than 5 to 10 degrees.
When casting, make sure that the root ball never completely dries out, but in no case waterlogging occurs. Fertilization takes place every two weeks during the summer with a rhododendron or azalea fertilizer.
Tips
Occasionally, room firs are offered commercially as bonsai. However, these are not classic bonsai, but only trees that have been pulled in spiral or other unusual shapes.