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If you can do all this and keep you plant alive in its nursery container for a year, then you will probably be ready for the second phase of learning root work. The instructions are at Links. Continue to refine your plant by pinching back the new foliage to force more growth closer to the trunk and to make it denser and more compact. That is a poor way to begin this fascinating hobby and usually doomed to failure. A two year old juniper cutting plunked unceremoniously into a bonsai pot is not bonsai. There is an enormous amount of material to be digested here. Bonsai Plants But you can begin by copying and following the Rules. If you have the dedication, it can be done. It most likely will not be straight but rather curved with flowing movement. You can learn these by reading about bonsai, but mostly by looking at them and visually analyzing them. Try to find a club in your area; it will help immensely. That is a triangle with unequal sides, angles, and make the three corners of the triangle occur at different levels. You can also find some that already have decent size trunks that are reasonably priced. Lastly, prune your bonsai so that it forms a scalene triangle of foliage.
Next look at as many bonsai as you can, even if only pictures. Don't pot it until the trunk has reached the size and shape that you desire. Join the Internet Bonsai Club. Of course everyone wants bonsai inside, preferably on their coffee table, but bonsai is basically an outdoor activity. Bonsai Pots Remove anything growing up out of the pad and remove anything growing below the structure of the branch and its secondary branches (which are usually in a flat plane). If this seems daunting, well, it is. Of course you can find 'mall bonsai' everywhere, even grocery stores. It takes years to learn most bonsai skills, well, two years to learn the basics anyway. Many images are available on the web, analyze them critically. Good bonsai don't go into bonsai pots until they are basically finished. Bonsai Plants In a shrubby plant there is rarely only one 'bonsai' in a plant. . Finished is a relative term in bonsai because they are never really "finished". After you take your plant home you can begin the job of revealing the trunk line by removing competing trunks and branches, but before you do, give some thought as to which branches you will want to keep.
Indoor bonsai is quite difficult and is limited to tropical species. You will have a healthy compact plant with excess root capacity ready for a soil change and root reduction. Chinese Bonsai One of your first tasks will be to find a trunk line. Your plant should thrive and become compact. You will have to visually eliminate all the unnecessary trunks and branches to see the trunk line. I have made it as simple as I possibly can, but the rest is up to you. You should pinch and prune to form pads. It usually will be a single trunk, but sometimes there will be a dominant trunk and a secondary trunk. Bonsai Tools Try to determine just what it is that you like about them. Your nursery plant will have many trunks and branches if it is a shrub, but a single trunk if it is a young tree. If you only do this, you will have a plant that will resemble bonsai and already be miles ahead of the typical $29. I recommend that you get a shrubby plant first; it will give you more to do from the very beginning. Styling skills are learned over a lifetime. Virtually all beginners are impatient to get them in bonsai pots.
Japanese Bonsai Bonsai is not about 'owning' bonsai plants, but rather the enjoyment of caring for them and especially creating them. Well then, how do you start? First and foremost read as much.