How to grow a bonsai tree at home?

i need to know the growing of bonsai trees and about there caring and manure.|||A Yahoo search for "growing bonsai" (include the quotation marks in the search box) yields 47,200 results. If you do the same search, and are willing to spend a little time exploring, I'm sure that you will quickly find the information you seek.





Good luck with your search.|||I found this site to be useful. You can get "Bonsai Gardening Secrets" Book that gives all the details that you need and more.





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|||As near as I can tell, "bonsai" is a Japanese word meaning "to torture small plants to death." I LOVE bonsai, but I've never been able to keep one alive for longer than about a month.





Doesn't mean YOU can't -- I can't play the piano, but my daughter ROCKS.





So this answer won't be much help except to say that if you can succeed, I will envy you.|||first off, think of it basically, and I have many sucessful trees right now in my collection some as long as 25 years.


You need to know what kind of tree it is, Bonsai means 'tree in a pot' and any tree can be manipulated into a bonsai. When you know what variety of tree it is, you culture it as you would the same tree going in the ground or in a big pot. Give it the same conditions it requires, some plants like full sun, others don't etc... Water as needed, the soil should never become bone dry nor kept soaking wet all the time. depending on the weather it may dry out every day or go several days. Tropicals can grow in the house, but outdoors species stay out of doors, again giving them what they need. The pruning of a tree is just like any other, although instead of shaping into geometric forms, we prune to recreate what we see in full size-only smaller, so it's much more selective. The perfect Bonsai to you is a tree that reflects nature in miniature, and just about any tree can be shaped to use as a Bonsai. How's That!!!


You won't learn how to keep a Bonsai alive by reading a bonsai book, just what's involved in training a tree for Bonsai


I've never used manure to fertilize, just regular rapid-gro etc... used 1\2 strength one a week from late spring till fall.|||The BEST place to start learning is the library or bookstore with books on Bonsai. That said the basic care is as follows.





Water as needed. If the soil is dry or becoming so it needs to be watered. It is VERY species specific and requires some trail and error.


When watering if you have a few trees place the entire container into a pail of water and submerge the pot. Let it sit until it stops "bubbling". If more trees are involved then water with a gentle nozzle setting or a specialized adapter that "breaks" the water into smaller streams and set the hose to have a gentle "shower". If the soil is being disturbed it is too much. Water until there is a steady stream of water coming out of the holes in the bottom of the pot. Fertilize with on half strength liquid All Purpose fert. If insects become a problem on a single tree one can use soapy water that the tree is dipped in the same way as with watering. Safer soap or a systemic is best for many trees.





Those are the basics on basic care. For the most and best information a local Bonsai Nursery or local Library and book store. The local nursery will help with getting issues that are more area related resolved. Also look for local associations.