Content
- You should not cut a room fir
- Reasons to cut a room fir
- What happens if you cut a room-fir?
- Never leave stubs when cutting
- Increase room fir through branches
- Tips
A room fir should not be cut if possible
You should not cut a room fir
Basically, it is not necessary to cut a room fir. When cutting, you can make many mistakes that disturb the elegant and even appearance delicate. When you cut, you must be careful because room firs do not drift out of the old wood.
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There are a few reasons to cut a room fir at all. If you want to get the appearance of the tree, you should think carefully about whether it is really necessary that you reach for the scissors.
What happens if you cut a room-fir?
If you decide to cut a room fir, keep in mind that the tree does not drive out of the old wood again. Branches or spikes that you cut off once are lost forever. Cover the top, it does not grow anymore, but the tree gets several tips. Sometimes the room fir even goes in after that.
Therefore, you should only cut branches that are too close or have got brown or yellow needles. Even drooping branches you can cut, as they no longer recover and upright.
Long branches, which disturb the overall picture of the room fir, shorten directly over a branch, so that the pruning does not fall too much in the eye.
Never leave stubs when cutting
Cut all branches that you want to remove completely, directly at the trunk. Do not leave stubs standing.
Increase room fir through branches
It does not make much sense to multiply a room fir by branches. You must be able to cut the top of the tree. This will destroy the appearance. This type of propagation is worthwhile only if the room fir is already very old and you want to dispose of it soon anyway.
Cutting cuttings from the side branches occasionally works. However, the offshoots are very uneven and act rather shabby.
Therefore, increase a room fir preferably from seeds that you get in the trade. In Zimmerkultur the room fir itself does not produce seeds.
Tips
As room firs, like all conifers, do not drive out of the old wood, they are not necessarily suitable as bonsai. Since the plants are rarely higher than two meters in any case, the effort is not worth it.