Spring cutback on stewartia – Bonsai Tonight

It’s been just a few years since I shared an update about a twin-trunk stewartia in my garden.

The most most important admire the tree has consisted of cutback to 2-3 leaves on new shoots and leaf pruning in spring adopted by gentle cutback in drop (look “Leaf pruning” for most important aspects). I’ve completed this for the previous a few years now to invent out the silhouette.

I furthermore repotted the tree very top iciness real into a bonsai pot. It had been increasing in a wood pot for a few years to delay its vigor. Now that it’s increasing successfully yet again, it became time to achieve the tree to a bonsai pot.

Right here’s the tree earlier than and after cutback and leaf pruning.

Sooner than cutback

After cutback and leaf pruning – 34″

The most most important belief in the reduction of the spring work is that interior branches can die reduction if they don’t score sufficient gentle. By trimming new shoots and lowering the leaf dimension I will reduction the interior foliage score sufficient gentle to prevent healthy.

I don’t ask the tree to grow loads this summer season since it became repotted this year, but even though it does, I’ll wait till the leaves initiate to turn colour in drop earlier than pruning yet again to forestall the tree from producing new progress because it’s preparing for iciness dormancy.