Generally speaking, the production of bonsai ranges from a few years to decades or even hundreds of years. This may not matter to the common hobby, but it may be a myth when we want to make bonsai as an industry to maintain our lives. More and more of us hope that when making bonsai, we can enjoy beauty and gain benefits, and combine them organically to make us live a happy life. The development of grafting technology provides us with a way. With proper grafting techniques, you can give full play to your imagination and aesthetic power at will and make beautiful and excellent bonsai with far-reaching artistic conception. Production is divided into several steps.

First, choose a suitable stump. Stump is the most difficult choice when making ordinary bonsai, and our choice is not difficult. As long as it is tangible, it can be any part of the tree, as long as it has a big shape. No matter how many branches or few branches, we can omit them, and the length can be intercepted at will according to personal preference.

Second: Graft the root system, because the pile we choose has no roots, so we should graft the root system. Roots are grafted backwards. The number of roots is up to you, but don't graft too little to save trouble. Your grafted roots save a lot of things compared with ordinary bonsai.

Third: grafting branches, grafting branches with appropriate thickness where branches are needed, and grafting appropriate branchlets to reduce the possibility of survival of grafted big branches. We are not short of big branches in pile selection. If the shoots are fruiting mother branches (branches that come first and then bloom), they can bear fruit in the year or the following year when the stumps survive.

Fourth: binding, all scions and joints are tightly wrapped with plastic strips, except the part buried in the soil, and the plastic strips should be single-layered at the eye of the scion bud, otherwise the bud will suffocate. Plastic strips are made of inferior food bags, which is the key, otherwise they will fail, because the toughness and strength are low, and the buds can naturally break through.

Fifth: shaping the root system, making the root system into the required shape according to the needs.

Sixth, planting and conservation. The prepared stumps should be planted in flowerpots or on the ground. Pay attention to bury the roots with wet soil and then enclose them with plastic film. Before the scion germinates, it is also important not to let the water soak in the root grafting part when watering. The water interface rotted and the whole planting failed. When the top scion is strong, the excess soil buried in the pile is gradually removed. Finally, all the plastic bindings were deleted and the work was initially completed. Luohansong bonsai

Processing modeling of tree embryo

Generally, the seedlings cultivated since childhood begin to be processed and shaped after 3 to 5 years; Most stumps excavated in Shan Ye can be processed and shaped after one year of embryo cultivation.

Before processing, you can dig out the tree embryos planted in the ground and temporarily plant them in pots of basically suitable size for operation and modeling. Big tree embryos can also be processed and shaped on site.

The processing and production should follow a series of artistic techniques of bonsai creation. First, carefully observe and scrutinize the tree embryo materials, and decide what theme to show and how to shape them according to the characteristics of the materials, that is, "treating them according to their materials". The skeleton of the radicle, stem and branch of the tree is arranged according to the law of bonsai art, making it a well-balanced and harmonious living bonsai art work with beautiful lines and far-reaching artistic conception. If pine is selected as the material, it is suitable to show the vitality and straightness of its main roots, and its branches and leaves are flat and scattered like clouds; Cypress is suitable for displaying its strange trunk, Gu Zhuo, and leafy; Plum blossom modeling should be sparse and oblique; Spring is suitable for hanging branch arches; ..... This is considered from the natural characteristics of tree species. In addition, the inherent shape of the stump should be considered. For example, if the trunks of some stumps are straight, they can be straightened and dried. Some stumps naturally bend, suitable for bending dry or cliff-like; Some stumps are dry and bald, so they should be made into withered peaks ... because wood treatment can make bonsai production both labor-saving and natural fun. If you let it be completely natural, you can't talk about bonsai art, but there are too many artificial traces, but you lose the natural beauty. Therefore, for the modeling of stumps, we must not stick to the rules and apply patterns.

There is also a certain procedure for modeling treatment, which is usually dry first and then branch. According to the needs of tree species and modeling, climbing, pruning or carving can be determined from bottom to top. Due to different habits in different regions, their processing methods are also different. Generally speaking, for conifers and trees with weak germination ability, climbing is the main method. For elm trees,

Tree species with strong germination, such as Bromus, Fujian tea, triangle maple, etc., can be pruned. The stump processed by climbing and binding method is free in shape, tortuous and fast in forming; The stump treated by pruning method is vigorous and natural, but its forming is slow. The southern region has a warm climate and trees grow fast, which is suitable for pruning. The climate in the north is cold and the trees grow slowly, which is suitable for climbing modeling. Of course, these are generally speaking, the styles and genres of bonsai are different, and the modeling methods are also very different. For example, Lingnan School adopts "preserving branches"