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Example Three
For this Pine, choosing a windswept style that is very natural, gives me and my pupil Antonio, the option of a much less invasive solution, where we keep everything, even the long branches, and above all you let the bonsai design itself.
If you imagine the removal of the two branches to the right, the result would be a classic traditional Japanese prostrate style, but by leaving these two branches, the bonsai is much wider and much more savage.
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foliage normally is removed completely, leaving a bare trunk.
9. Three-month period:
In my experience I notice that a tree harvested in the spring is likely to take root by July. e plant should be in a position to form ne root hairs within three months of collection, otherwise it is no longer able to survive on its reserves. e method then has to be concentrated with scrupulous attention for the rst three months a er which the tree can be cultivated like a typical weak plant.
10. Irrigation under the sun:
Watering must be done daily or several times a day during various parts of the day, to avoid standing
water in the bottom of the container during the night, and to avoid cooling the root ball. Irrigation in the sun quickly warms the earth when freshly watered and allows temperature ranges for the therapeutic strengthening of the leaf tissue. e correct dryness between one watering and the other also facilitates the speed of rooting.
11. Chemistry:
Sustenance of araki and stimulation of rooting can be helped with products based on amino acids and polyamides. e application of these products presents the di culty of being able to penetrate the plant by cuticular absorption. Having no roots, the majority of the trees in these conditions hold the stomata closed so as not to dehydrate, and in