![]() This makes working with wild or nursery stalk challenging because to make these trees into a Bonsai you need to cut back the taproot.Ĭutting back the taproot takes time, if you take too much of the taproot you kill the tree because you won’t have enough secondary roots supplying the tree with nourishment. In a young tree the taproot can be as long as the tree is tall. When planted this way the taproot grows down and the secondary roots grow out from the taproot supplying the tree with nourishment. In a nursery they place the seeds in starter trays, once the trees sprout they are transplanted to a growing field, and once they are ready for market they are transplanted to pots for sale. Place the cones in a dish and bake them in the oven at 350⁰, this will open the cones so you can just tap the cones hard to make the seeds fall out. I am going to use the same process to harvest my seeds. In a forest fire the heat from the fire causes the cone to open and after the fire passes the seeds fall to the ground replanting the forest to grow until the next forest fire. The cones protect the seeds from birds and stay on the tree for a couple years until they open and fall off the tree or a forest fire opens them. ![]() The mature cones look much like the skin of an Armadillo. They start to produce cones when they are quite tall, 15 to 20 feet tall, the cone starts off small and green in the spring and grow during the summer turning brown in the fall. Spruce trees like many other pine trees, needs a forest fire to spread their seeds most of the time. Other than rain forests, many conifers have a symbiotic relationship with fire and the white Spruce is no different. Green cones are immature and the seeds may not be fully developed, and open cones can lose their seeds to falling out and birds. For this reason I grow my Bonsai indoors.įind a tree you like, look for a tree that has the traits you want in your Bonsai, and gather mature cones from the tree, they should be brown but not fully open. So keep your pets and other animals away from your Bonsai, or kiss your Bonsai good bye. Our goat got into where I was wintering my Bonsai and ate all of them to the point every tree died. I went through a great deal of work getting an Oak, a Maple, and a Willow, started when I lost all my Bonsai. My oldest Bonsai was a Japanese White Pine I had been training for 10 years. ![]() Most were North American trees that I started as seeds or seedlings. ![]() I had 10 one handed Bonsai, (5 to 8 inches tall) at one time. Larger Bonsai can be trained from nursery stalk, but smaller Bonsai one hand or less can be easier to train from seedlings and seed stalk. This gives you time for other things in your life. Trees and shrubs that need to winter can go for four to six months when you winter them. The only good part is other than watering you only touch them about once every couple months so they can recover from pruning. Most Bonsai take years to train before you can call them finished so this is not the hobby for an impatient person. ![]()
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