1. Bending method: Some shapes need to bend the trunk to a certain extent, and the bending method often varies with its thickness. Generally, the thinner branches can achieve the goal by using the conventional techniques of softening branches and Pinza, while the thicker branches need special methods such as slotting on the side, drawing mats with wood or bending with a bender. The small groove should be opened longitudinally on the side, and the wooden pad should be taken horizontally on the inside, and its depth should reach 2/3 of the dry thickness. The machete is an iron bending plate groove. Either way, it must be wrapped with hemp skin for protection and fixed with rope or lead wire.
Thick dry bending method
2. Pruning method: Some wild piles with good foundation shape but poor upper branch shape can be transformed by pruning method to cultivate dry shape and branch posture. During the period, winter scissors are the main ones, supplemented by summer scissors. The method is light before heavy, which is suitable for strong tree species with long latent buds and easy regeneration of branches. Before cutting, the original pile should be carefully and repeatedly observed and pondered, so as to "have a tree in mind". In order to ensure the normal growth of buds near the wound after cutting, some large wounds should be properly protected, and new branches should be left as soon as possible and cultivated continuously.
Stump cutting cultivation method
3. Twisting method: For young trees with long trunk, no scab and a diameter of about 2 cm, if the upper branches are good, the crown can be lowered by twisting and knotting, so as to promote their flowering and early fruiting and form a beautiful and strange dry shape. The twisted seedlings must have sound roots and grow vigorously. The operation method is to hold the two ends of the trunk by hand and twist it in one direction to avoid "skin-bone separation". You can also step on the roots with your feet and twist the upper part of the trunk with your hands. Then the naturally bent stem shape is slightly corrected and shaped, and then fixed.
Trunk distortion method
Wring (an apple)
4. Embedding method: For the saplings with thin and high trunk at the lower part but good branch shape at the upper part, embedding method can be used to make up for the defects and decorate and beautify. The method is to choose a dead pile or a beautiful rock with a strange posture, carve a crack on it, embed it in the trunk and wrap it with cloth. After a period of growth, the bare trunk was forced to thicken to both sides. At this time, the original mosaic trace was gradually covered up, forming a bonsai fruit tree with natural beauty.
Trunk mosaic decoration (mahogany)
5. Cutting residue method: In order to shape the tenacious image and magical posture of fruit trees in nature, the trunk, its bark and some xylem can be split in half, and then the posture can be fixed to protect the wound and make it heal quickly. There are two ways of dry chopping: branch chopping and root chopping. Branching is to crack from the branches above and split the crown in two. Root splitting is to split the root system in two by splitting from the lower part of the root upwards. No matter which cutting method, you must choose saplings with complete roots and vigorous growth.
Trunk cutting decoration
6. Old method of tumor production: In order to set off the top branches and vitality of bonsai fruit trees, it is often necessary to decorate the trunk with old tumors. The treatment method is to tap the trunk lightly with a hammer or pry the bark lightly with a sharp knife during the vigorous growth period, so that the injured bark wrinkles without breaking, forming rough and old upturned skin and dry tumors.
Old-fashioned method of trunk tumorigenesis