To make a basin of beautiful bonsai with Portulacaria afra, you should first have a basin of plants with thick branches. Generally, such plants need to live in those 3-4 years before they can be shaped. If you have enough time and patience to wait, you may as well try cutting a pot at home, and you can start modeling in 2 years.
Jinzhiyuye bonsai doesn't need to change soil every year, so before making bonsai modeling, you should choose the basin with good permeability, loose and fertile soil, and apply the thin liquid fertilizer which is decomposed 3-4 times a year. A few years later, the growth of the plant was felt to be poor and then the pot was changed.
Pay attention to reduce the wound of the plant as much as possible when you put it on the basin, and then put it in the shade to change the basin for a period of time. For the novice, try to bury 2 /3 of the rhizomes in the soil, try bare root cultivation, simple operation, low cost, will not damage the original shape of the plant, is a good way for the novice to cultivate bonsai with Portulacaria afra.
According to the natural shape of the Portulacaria afra, prune the branches and leaves into clouds, just like the miniature of trees in nature. Or leave the top of the plant high, unequal in size, and the outline looks like the shape of a melon seed. Visual impact is also relatively strong. But try not to cut the plant into a round, square, which will appear very rigid.
In the process of pruning, the main body is inclined to one side consciously, generally slightly curved, and the branches and leaves are spread on the periphery of the flowerpot. The whole shape is breathtaking but stable. This kind of tree shape is vivid and vivid, and its momentum is dynamic and static. But in the process of modeling, pay attention to the importance. The branches of Portulacaria afra are relatively fragile, so we should step by step, not light in the front but heavy in the back, so as to break the branches.
