How should you maintain a balcony miniature bonsai in summer? How does it work?

There are several basic principles for caring for bonsai at home:

Number one: lighting

The maintenance of bonsai trees should be maintained with more than 5-6 hours of direct light per day, but this requirement will of course vary slightly depending on the type of bonsai tree, depending on whether the bonsai tree prefers direct or diffuse light, but it must not be stored in an excessively shaded place.

Usually the care of bonsai trees requires more direct light every day, if you put the bonsai tree in a place with little sunlight, you need to increase the light a little, keep the sun for a long time, you can make the bonsai tree grow better. However, you shouldn't expose your bonsai tree to the sun all at once. If you're moving from a low-light area to a high-light, direct-light environment, you just need to take it one step at a time.

Bonsai trees should also avoid too much artificial light lighting, as these artificial lights do not provide the spectrum required by bonsai trees.

The second point: pay attention to watering

Maintaining bonsai trees requires regular watering, usually until below the surface of the soil, 2 to 4 cm of soil is dry, watering thoroughly each time, avoiding watering only a little bit, and not letting the soil dry completely.

For example, in summer and winter, when there is more sunlight, the frequency of watering should be increased; When the temperature is low and there is less sunlight, the frequency of watering should be reduced. Check the dryness of the soil regularly, but avoid harming the roots. The best time to water is in the morning, during summer temperatures, and even in the morning and evening.

Water more than once a week during the hibernation season during the winter when the temperature drops, when too much water is very detrimental to the growth of bonsai. If sun exposure decreases, watering should be reduced; If the amount of sunlight exposure increases, the frequency of watering should be increased.

The third point: soil selection

To grow a bonsai tree, you have to use a specific potting soil, you can buy bonsai soil directly from the florist, each type of bonsai tree requires a different soil to grow. To grow a bonsai tree, you should choose a specific bonsai soil. Good bonsai soil can maintain good water holding capacity and good drainage, avoid soil waterlogging, and should also have a certain fertility and maintain an appropriate pH value, which is the pH of the soil, and it is most suitable to keep it between.

Point 4: Soil and potting changes

The maintenance of bonsai trees is generally 1 to 5 years to change the pot, if the usual maintenance is relatively normal, this is still different. Some grow faster, and the plants are relatively young bonsai trees, which generally need to be changed once every one to two years, and some older bonsai trees should be changed every five years or so. In addition to observing the renewal of growth, you can also look at its leaves, if new leaves keep growing on the bonsai tree, the young leaves that have just grown turn yellow, which proves that it needs to be repotted.

If small shoots also appear on the branches at the base of the bonsai tree, then the root system of the bonsai tree should be properly pruned when the pot is changed.

First of all, you need to make sure that the temperature of the sun is good, and then you also need to determine the time of day, and you can also put these bonsai on the balcony in the morning, and then on the ground when the temperature is higher, and you can also place some sun netting.

Proper shading can be carried out to improve ventilation and add a little nutrients. To ensure a certain humidity, do not water at noon, and choose special potting soil.

When maintaining in summer, you must pay attention to the weather conditions in summer, but also pay attention to the temperature in summer, as well as the characteristics of summer. The specific operation method is that it is best to choose not to water in the morning or at noon in the evening when watering to prevent burning roots, and then the sun is more intense at noon, so we must do a good job of shading, and also do a good job of ventilation, do not water too much, otherwise it will breed diseases and pests, but also fertilize more, maintain sufficient fertilizer, so that the plant can grow well.

1. Houseplants are generally waiting for the potting soil to dry and watered thoroughly, so as to avoid being infected with fungal diseases, more water is easy to rot the roots, less water but will not hang up immediately, I used my fingers directly to test the dryness and wetness of the soil at the beginning, if the potting soil under 3-5 cm of soil are dry slag, I will water the potting soil thoroughly.

3. Regularly check the dryness and wetness of the potting soil, develop good flower raising habits, basically will not raise dead plants, and be sure to check whether the soil is dry before watering.

4. Another key to indoor maintenance of potted plants is the location, avoid keeping them next to the air conditioning outlet or heating, try not to place plants next to large electrical appliances, if it is often completely dark, do not place potted plants, at least every day there should be bright lights, to avoid excessive darkness.

5. Some plants that can bloom can be placed in a position with appropriate scattered light, and plants that like light can be placed on the south-facing windowsill or balcony, such as the common triangular plum, tiger thorn plum and sunflower.

6. Indoor maintenance of foliage plants, try to avoid direct sunlight, especially those plants that have been kept in a non-light environment for a long time, and the hot sunlight in summer will scorch the leaves.

7. Indoor maintenance of potted plants should also pay attention to regular cleaning of leaves, do not let the leaves be contaminated with too much dust, otherwise it will affect photosynthesis, the leaves are easy to yellow, after cleaning the leaves should be placed in a ventilated place to avoid water accumulation in the leaves to infect fungal diseases, otherwise it is easy to rot.

8. In the hot summer, even if the indoor potted plants are placed in a sunny place for a few minutes, the plants will be burned, and the leaves are easy to get some small spots, and the sunburned plants will have scars, and there will be no way to recover their health.

9. The plants maintained on the windowsill should not be directly attached to the glass, the glass window will amplify the heat, and the leaves are easy to burn if they are directly attached to the window, and the same is true in winter, and it is easy to get frostbite directly on the window.

1. Requirements for light.

Light is very important to plants, whether a plant can survive or not depends entirely on whether the light conditions can meet its requirements. The summer sun is more scorching, for small potted plants, it is easy to be burned by the strong light of the sun, because of small potted plants, the space itself is limited, so the root system from the soil to obtain limited water, can not withstand the toss of the sun at all, so in the summer strong sunlight, will directly hurt the roots of small potted plants. Also when playing chess, it is necessary to shade small potted plants, and we can't put the pots directly on the ground of the balcony, it is better to find a flower shelf, or find something to support it.

Bridge noise. 2. Watering management.

Small potted plants, which have less soil substrate and therefore store less water, are susceptible to drought during the summer heat. Therefore, when watering in the summer, it is necessary to master a certain method. When watering in summer, we have to master that the temperature is too high is not easy to water, so it is not suitable to water at noon, we generally choose to water small potted plants in the morning or evening when the temperature is low.

But when watering, we do not water too often, which can easily lead to soil compaction and impermeability, resulting in rotten roots, which is also a small potted plant, to avoid sweat or waterlogging.

3. Fertilization and combustion management.

The temperature in summer is relatively high, and under normal circumstances, when the temperature is too high, many bonsai will be in a dormant state of self-difference, and this temperature critical point is 30 degrees. If it is higher than 30 degrees, we must stop fertilizing, because during the dormant period, many bonsai do not need to consume too much nutrients, and if fertilization is applied at this time, it will only lead to fertilizer damage such as plant burns. Fertilize small potted plants at ordinary times, but also do it thinly, so as to avoid fertilizer damage, because small potted plants have weak resistance to fertilizer damage, so we must pay attention to these conditions, so we can choose some slow-release fertilizer to fertilize small potted plants.

4. Prevention and control of pests and diseases.

Small bonsai are beautiful, but their roots are not well developed, so they are weak in dealing with pests and diseases. Then we can make a compensation through artificial prevention and control. We can use the cultivated soil for a sterilization treatment when cultivating, which can be treated with sun exposure or some fungicides.

Due to the relatively small size of small bonsai, as long as we observe more, it will be easy to find some insect pests, which can be removed manually, if it is more serious, you can use some insecticides to deal with it in time, because it reduces the damage of bonsai.