subject: Newbie Guide For Gardening And Maintaining Your Bonsai Seedling [print this page] Owning a bonsai plant can be daunting for the beginner. Raising and training a bonsai plant requires a lot of knowledge. Bonsais growing in small, indoor pots tend to be more fragile and sensitive to the environment changes than trees growing outside. All of the steps required to properly care for a bonsai tree can overwhelm someone new to the practice.
Somebody who wishes to raise a bonsai plant and is new to it needs to remember just a few important tips. A bonsai plant grows extremely well outdoors. It is most beneficial for the plants to remain outside as much as possible, although you can take them inside occasionally if you would like. This will ensure that the bonsai plant can go into dormancy when it is required. A plant that is basically hibernating and recovering from any trauma it went through during the growing season is said to be dormant. A bonsai plant's survival depends on this stage, and if plants aren't allowed to go dormant they will die after a couple of months.
Once you have ensured your bonsai plant has the right growing environment, it is important that you water it properly. Due to the Bonsai's small stature and tiny pot, watering is often done with an eye dropper, a single drop at a time. You must be able to reproduce the natural conditions of your bonsai tree as it would be in the wild without over watering. Letting the bonsai plant dry out too much is also a common problem, which can be as damaging as over watering the plant. Finding the balance point takes some effort for a newbie bonsai owner, but caring for the plant will soon become second nature.
If you live in a region that is not conducive for the growth of a bonsai plant, there are some varieties of trees that can be grown indoors. These trees tend to be tropical, liking a static temperature and constant amount of sunlight year round. These tress are ideal for beginners, as they are very useful and can tolerate a fair amount of error. If you have a keen interest in growing a bonsai plant for the first time, investing in a tropical tree may be ideal.
If you are interested in bonsai tree care and do not want to learn through experimentation, there are a lot of resources available to you. You can inquire on bonsai tree care in bonsai circles, read online publications and books, or purchase instructional videos that will outline bonsai tree care in a way that is easy for you to understand.
You can learn about your bonsai plant online, or you can inquire for more information from a bonsai nursery. Lots of folks who do this as a hobby will gladly share what they know as they see their plants as ways to socialize with others who love them.
