Hard Pruning: The Secret to Mastering Bonsai

Today I want to show you how we build the structure of a bonsai.
Hard pruning your bonsai is imperative if you want to build a high quality bonsai.
This operation looks drastic, and it is, but this is how to build a better bonsai structure.
Be brave and hard prune your tree. Just be careful because the tree needs to be in perfect health to get this operation to be a success.
By letting your bonsai grow a lot and then pruning hard, you encourage the tree to back bud.
Your bonsai has dormant buds all over the place and when you are doing this, you wake up a lot of those buds.
In this example, we have a Chinese rose bonsai. It's an old tree at about 28 years and it's made out of a house plant.
I have some primary branches but now I need to get secondary branching, and high quality secondary branching needs to happen near the trunk.
This is how we get a good and compacted bonsai tree.
Bonsai is made in stages:
1. The trunk
2. Primary branches
3. Secondary branches
4. Tertiary branches
5. Fine ramifications
And we need to build this amazing bonsai structure one step at a time.
Also, the Chinese rose is a plant with a very brittle wood and it's very hard to wire the branches when they are this old because they brake easily.
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