Bonsai pruning generally uses methods such as topping, leaf cutting, bud wiping, thinning, and branch cutting. Topping is to select and cut off the top 2 centimeters or so of the branches. Bud wiping is to pick off the new buds on the trunk directly with your hands. Leaf picking is the process of thinning the leaves of plants with ornamental trunks. When thinning, do not cut close to the main trunk, try to cut at a position of more than 1 cm.

1. Topping

Topping is to select the top 2 cm from the top of the branch and cut it off. This will make the plant grow stronger and will effectively promote the growth of the plant below. New shoots sprout and grow.

2. Bud wiping

Budding buds is to directly pick off the new buds on the trunk with your hands. Especially for plants with a high germination rate, bud wiping is often required. If the buds are not applied in time, they will consume too much nutrients and will also affect the overall shape.

3. Leaf picking

Leaf picking is the process of thinning the leaves of plants whose trunks are to be viewed. After thinning the leaves, the trunks can be directly viewed. It is mostly used on some larger tree stumps. . Picking leaves also requires a high sense of aesthetics, otherwise what you pick will be a pot of a tree that has lost all its leaves.

4. Thinning

Thinning can allow plants to have better light and ventilation, etc., and can also allow their nutrients to better supply the branches and leaves they need. However, if the thinning method is not used properly, it will not be able to recover. When thinning, do not cut close to the main trunk. Try to cut at a position of more than 1 cm.

5. Short pruning

Short pruning is commonly used in modeling. It shortens the longer branches, but not all of them, so as to maintain the shape of the entire tree and also maintain the shape of the tree. Plants that have grown too high can be dwarfed and their trunks stronger.

6. Pruning

Pruning is generally a pruning method that imitates the shape of trees in nature. The shape after pruning is the same as the shape of the naturally growing tree. There is no difference. This pruning method is generally carried out in the young stage of the tree. When the tree is the strongest in the young stage, the trunk is cut and some branches are retained.