Lycium barbarum L. is rich in wild resources in China. It can get twice the result with half the effort by digging wild Ilex cornuta stumps and processing them into bonsai.
Wild piles in Shan Ye should be dug before germination in spring or late autumn, and the best transplanting time is before germination in spring. When digging piles, don't dig every pile you see, but dig selectively. Indiscriminate mining and excavation not only wastes a lot of unsuitable piles and time, but also wastes and destroys wild resources. Serious indiscriminate excavation will also cause soil erosion and affect ecological parallelism. Therefore, we should choose to dig wild holly stumps suitable for making bonsai, such as ancient and strange stumps, curved branches or short stumps.
Before digging piles, most branches and leaves above the ground are trimmed, leaving only stumps and some branches and leaves needed for modeling.
When digging a pile, dig an annular ditch around the stump, cut off the roots and main roots and dig them out to remove most of the soil. You can transplant bare roots, preferably with some soil at the bottom of the pile bag.
After the stump is dug out, water should be sprayed on the roots and branches of the stump in time, and wet grass or wet cloth should be wrapped to moisturize and transported back in time.
After the stump is shipped back, it should be planted in time. If there are many stumps dug back, you can bury the roots with wet sand to keep them moist first. You can plant it directly in a pot, preferably in a nursery first. The blank will be shaped after survival and then transplanted into the pot.
When planting, the roots should be trimmed once, so that the root of the pile can return to the night, which is beneficial to planting in the basin. The wound should be trimmed flat, coated with white latex and then planted. Wrap a layer of plastic wrap on the stump above the ground.
Often water and spray water on the branches of the stump, and it will take root and sprout in 2 ~ 3 weeks. At this time, we should continue to strengthen water management, prevent false growth, and keep the soil at the base of the stump moist without water accumulation. Pay attention to drainage in rainy season, and water and spray foliar water in time when drying. For the piles going down the mountain, improving the blank is the key. Therefore, in summer, we should pay attention to shading 80% ~ 90%, keep enough scattered light, water more, spray water on the stump, and take full sunshine spray management if possible. Weed in time. Pour pancake fertilizer 2 ~ 3 times a month in autumn. In late autumn, pull branches and trim them once. Do not fertilize in winter, pay attention to cold and warmth, and water to keep dry and wet. Enter the normal management in the second year.