Growing Bonsai from Seedlings (Yamadori)

Home Bonsai from a nursery seedling

Good trees for growing bonsai can be found in nurseries of young garden plants. Buying a bonsai seedling is a fairly quick and relatively inexpensive way to increase your collection of dwarf trees, and you can immediately begin to shape it.

One of the main disadvantages of working with nursery bonsai is their age, as to achieve the desired shape you will need to remove large branches, which will result in visible wounds.

Once you learn more about bonsai and gain experience, it will be easier for you to find potential material. However, it is worth paying attention to the desired type of bonsai, the shape of the trunk, the crown andNebari.

You can buy plants in nurseries all year round, but the greatest number of offers is from early spring to late summer.

How to Grow Bonsai from Seedlings

To properly grow bonsai from seedlings, follow the instructions:

1. Buy a seedling from a nursery or dig it up in the forest. The seedling should contain the soil from which it was dug up. The length of the seedling should be about 15 cm.
2. Trim the roots to 7 cm.
3. Remove lateral shoots and shorten vertical ones.
4. Plant the tree, carefully spreading out the roots.
5. Water and loosen the soil in a timely manner.