Potted plum blossoms are commonly grown in pots with diameters of 20-25 cm. After the blossoms have fallen, repot the plant on a sunny day. Remove the old soil, trim long, dead, or rotten roots, and trim one-year-old flowering branches leaving 2-3 buds at the base.
Use a mixture of fertile garden soil, leaf mold, and coarse sand, along with a small amount of bone meal for plum blossoms in pots.
Potted plum blossoms need their pots turned and soil changed every two to three years to maintain soil fertility and promote growth.
When turning pots and changing soil, use a larger container and take care not to damage the roots. Mix garden soil and leaf mold in specific proportions.
Plum blossoms thrive in warm, moist soil. Water regularly, about every two to three days in spring and autumn.
In summer, due to higher temperatures and more evaporation, water twice a day, morning and evening. Also, spray water to cool the plant during high temperatures. In winter, wait until the soil is dry before watering.
Plum blossoms need plenty of nutrients, but be careful not to over-fertilize as it can burn the roots. During the growing season, fertilize every two weeks mainly with phosphate and potash fertilizers. You can also use well-rotted organic fertilizer.
Apply organic fertilizer once before winter to provide enough nutrients for the plum blossoms, which will promote more blooming.
Regular pruning is necessary for potted plum blossoms to control their size. If there are branches growing too high, pinch off their tops to avoid them growing too tall.
Cut off all wilted, diseased, or non-flowering branches to avoid wasting nutrients and to make the plant structure reasonable, increase light penetration, and promote branching.
When a branch grows to 25 cm, you can pinch off the top part. Prune at least once a year, or you can prune according to your preferences to create cliff-style, curved-trunk styles, and so on.
The trunk of the plum blossom bonsai can be realized by cutting with a knife and peeling the bark. When carving or peeling, it is not suitable to complete the whole trunk at once.
Operate from top to bottom on one side, keeping the trunk’s upward water supply line. The operation line can be changed, such as spiral or winding.
After the wound has scarred, do the same on the other side. If you feel the vicissitudes are not enough, you can repeat the operation several times.
The rootstock should be composed of old stems that hang down from the root and intertwine with each other. Exposed roots can show the elegance and fragrance of the plum blossom tree in various forms.
The main thing for exposed root potted plums is to hang its roots on the surface of the pot like an eagle’s claw. When the plum stock is placed on the pot, it can only be formed by tying its parallel roots into a slanted form and cultivating them.
The styling of the plum blossom bonsai branches mainly relies on pruning. Pruning of plum blossoms is mainly done after the flowers wither. Pruning is mainly completed through shortening, thinning, retracting, bud rubbing, and heart picking.
This mainly involves removing overly dense branches. First, clear away dead branches, pest-infested branches, intersecting branches, and overlapping branches. Increase the ventilation and light transmission of the plant to promote its healthy growth.
Generally, branches over two years old are shortened to achieve rejuvenation. This pruning method is widely used in plum blossom pruning techniques and is also an important measure for plant modeling and tree maintenance. The pruning time is generally chosen in late spring and early summer.
This is easy to understand, remove new root buds, trunk buds, and axillary buds in time, while paying attention to retaining the direction of the buds, preventing new buds from sprouting intersecting branches, opposite branches, overlapping branches, and parallel branches, affecting the beauty of the plum blossom bonsai.
The main purpose is to inhibit the growth of lateral branches and shorten branches. When the bonsai grows 2-4 new leaves, control the time of pinching. Picking the heart of the plum blossom can stimulate the lateral branches to sprout buds, increasing blooming.
Peggie was once a high school mathematics teacher, but she set aside her chalkboard and textbooks to follow her lifelong passion for flowers. After years of dedication and learning, she not only established a thriving flower shop but also founded this blog, “Flowers Library”. If you have any questions or wish to learn more about flowers, feel free to contact Peggie.
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