How to Make Bonsai Trees? 6 Pro Tricks you might have missed

Bonsai shapes are designed in ways that are extremely rare in nature.
Simply because the trees are shaped when still very young.

Masters use special wire for Bonsai to build guides around the branches of their baby trees for Bonsai making. That’s how to give it the desired shape. Trunk and branches are so well-wrapped to be manually manipulable.

If a Bonsai stays in the same pot for too long, its roots would get damaged, and the plant would gradually die.

That’s why you have to occasionally replant it in a new and bigger container. Let’s say roughly every 2-3 years.

When un-potted, the old soil is taken off and the eventual rotten roots are carefully removed.  The new pot has to be partially filled with a special Bonsai soil before replacing the plant. Making a bonsai pot comfortable is an important step.

In bonsai trunks there could be white strange sections of wood.
These white parts originated from rotten portions of the trunk. Need to be manually removed and carefully sanded-off.

To heal your “bonsai tree’s wounds”, a sulfur liquid solution needs to be applied on that freshly fixed parts.

Fertilizing in regular way (until the end of the growing season) can make the difference between… having a dead or a living plant.

In nature, normal trees know how to extend their roots to look for nutrients and medicines.
Bonsai however are placed in such small pots, they usually required to be fertilized in order to balance the soil’s nutritional content.

You can easily find, both offline and online, many different Bonsai Fertilizers that fists your little baby specific needs.

Here’s the Best Resources to deeply understand How to Make it as a Bonsai Grower.
Check out our recommended Bonsai tree beginner guide. When you’re ready, then, switch to a Pro approach, to boost your bonsai making super-powers.