Bonsai Tree Care

Growing the Bonsai trees from seedlings is a process that takes a lot of time and a lot of patience. Still, using seedling earns you one year ahead of the Bonsai started from seeds.

What are the Bonsai seedlings?
The Bonsai seedlings are rootless branches, cut from the healthy mother-plants, and that are planted in soil in order for them to grow roots.

The best period of time to cut the seedlings, with conifers, is the first weeks of September or the beginning of April.

When talking about deciduous trees, you should start cutting the seedlings at the beginning of June. In order to have a faster rate of growing, you should dip the seedlings into a special growth hormone.

The roots grow in several weeks at deciduous trees and in about a year at conifers. As a Bonsai seedling pot, you should use a little plastic box. You should fill 3/4 of the box with a mix of sand and peat and you should sink the seedling into the soil, at equal distance. Then, you should water them with a delicate shower, cover the box and put them in an outside spot, protected from the sun light. Next, you should check daily if they have enough water. If necessary, water the plant again. The first sign that the roots have grown is the appearance of leaves on the seedlings. The plastic cover of the box should let the plants breathe fresh air, so they could grow stronger and get used to normal, outdoors climate.

Several months later, the seedlings have already formed new roots and may be moved to separate pots. You should use a soft soil, mixed with some clay. In the first year, you should not feed the plant anymore since the fresh soil provides enough nutritious substances.

In the winter, you should take special protection measures, because the newly roots do not take long freezing periods too well. The little plant should be buried and covered against the winds.

You should keep in mind that not every tree grows from seedlings. Cedars and pines grow only from seeds. Elms, on the other hand, grow easily from the seedlings, and so do a lot of other trees, like beeches, maples, hawthorns and dwarf elms.

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