Eric demonstrates that there's more to making healthy, fast-growing juniper bonsai than just water, fertilizer, and sun: container size! The difference is clear when you see a side-by-side comparison of junipers from the same cutting batch (thus the same age), same growing grounds, and same watering schedule. The trees in the 1 gallon grow bags are 10 TIMES larger than their siblings who are in 2" growing containers!
00:01:09 The driving force for growth of wood in the trunk of Junipers is strong tips and elongations.
00:02:03 Close-up of trunk of larger tree.
00:02:33 Eric works on a smaller Juniper.
00:03:17 Eric adds movement to the branches through wiring, focused on ensuring interior growth doesn't get shaded out by stronger outside growth.
00:03:56 Larger tree - Eric redirects the dense mass of growth to keep it from shading out branches he may want to keep.
00:05:00 Wiring 6 whips to bend down and out. Detailed explanation.
00:06:28 Rearranging the growing configuration of 9 large Junipers involves placing the trees in their 1 gallon grow bags together into 3 gallon grow bags - how and why.
00:07:30 Takeaway - how to let your Juniper trunk get bigger. A larger container creates a greater volume of growth, faster.
00:07:58 And a Caution: carefully consider before removing whips. This will have a big impact on the tree's speed of growth.
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25 май 2023
