Types of Plum Bonsai

Types of plum bonsai: Wandering Plum

The plum blossom trunk is required to be strong. When making it, the trunk is fixed with heald ropes, twisted to the right, and then the heald ropes are pulled upwards and tied to the appropriate position to fix the left bend. The trunk is then twisted to the left to form a right bend. Pull up the right-bend fixed heddle rope to form an S shape, and repeat the same method to complete the dragon body. Then trim the remaining branches accordingly for the dragon claws and tail. It will be done after years of modeling training.

Types of plum bonsai: Rolling Dragon Plum

Choose the Jade Butterfly Longyou Plum because its branches are all naturally twisted and do not require artificial shaping, only slight pruning every year is needed.

Types of plum bonsai: Plum

When the plum blossom seedlings are in the stage of being young, twist its main trunk from the rhizome into a circle, let the trunk grow upward, and slightly trim the branches.

Production type of plum bonsai: split plum

Select the main trunk of a large plum tree, split it in half, and cultivate it with the roots. After being polished by wind, frost, rain and snow, the wood of the main trunk will rot and branches will grow on the back bark, then you can put it in the pot.

Types of plum bonsai: Shunfeng plum

The main trunk of the plum blossom is curved and slanted, and the twigs control it and pull it downward, changing its growth direction.

Types of plum bonsai: Weeping plum bonsai

Choose the weeping plum variety, use straight-branch plum to cultivate the bamboo trunk and side branch skeleton, then bud-graft other weeping branches onto the twigs, and then prune.

Types of plum bonsai: exposed root plum bonsai

When the seedlings are young, use ropes to tie the thick roots into an eagle claw shape and plant them under the ground, forming a mound of soil around the roots that is higher than the surface of the pot. As the roots grow, the soil on the surface of the pot decreases and the roots slowly become exposed.