Indoor Bonsai Care
The first step towards Indoor Bonsai Care is to make sure you place the Bonsai Plant in the appropriate location. Your Indoor Bonsai must be placed in a well lit area because if it does not get enough sunlight, it will die. The Indoor Bonsai should be kept warm in the daytime, as well as humid, to simulate the region in which it normally grows. Spray the leaves with water often, and keep the spray bottle next to your Indoor Bonsai. The soil itself should always be damp to the touch but never soaked. At night your Indoor Bonsai can be allowed to cool off but spray again first thing in the morning before the sunlight hits it, as would occur in nature with morning dew. If you notice any moss growing near the base of your Indoor Bonsai make sure it is not in direct contact with the truck of the Bonsai Plant by lightly scraping it away.
Indoor Bonsai Care also includes both pruning and wiring to maintain the shape and size of your Indoor Bonsai. When pruning it is important to do so during the appropriate season, each Bonsai Plant will have a different requirement. To start you must locate the front of your Bonsai Plant as the trunck line should be exposed from all branches and foliage at this angle. Begin by pruning away branches as well as foliage at or around the base of the Bonsai Plant about 1/3 of the way up. If your Indoor Bonsai has visible trunks and you see growth in those locations, you should prune those as they will cause the trunk or primary branches to grow in an undesired direction. Next, prune away all the foliage close to the trunk on any of the primary branches and then prune all foliage that is pointing straight up or down except the foliage that is pointing straight up at the top of the tree. Branches on a Bonsai Plant should never be located directly across from one another, but alternate from left to right to back or vise versa, prune away any that do not visually conform to this as well. If your Bonsai Plant has had a lot of upwards growth you may find it necessary to create new primary branches from foliage growth. To do this you will need to use the wiring technique. To do this start by gently coiling the wire around the base of the trunk below the branch and continue around the branch in the same direction as the growth pattern of the new branch. Continue wiring your Bonsai Plant as close to the end of the branch as you can and avoid contact with any foliage growth. Then carefully bend the branch into the desired final position, which you will need to leave in place for a full growing season. Do not leave the wiring in place longer than a growing season or you might see wiring pot marks as the Indoor Bonsai continues to grow around the wire. After wiring it is recommended that you do not expose your Indoor Bonsai to direct sun light for at least a month as it causes stress to the Bonsai Plant. To remove the wire you can either carefully unwind it for reuse or clip the wire using a Bonsai cutter.
Another step in Indoor Bonsai Care is that you will have to re-pot it every two years which also assists in maintaining the small size, and this should be done at the beginning of spring. When you re-pot, you must also prune the roots at the same time. To do this, unseat the Bonsai carefully and lightly brush away some of the soil from the rootball to expose only the ends of the roots, but do not brush away all of it. Remove approximately 1/3 to 2/3 of the root tips and try to create an almost perfect sphere shape. You can then re-pot the Bonsai Plant using a soil mixture containing one part loam, two parts sphagnum peat moss, two parts granite grit in the same or similar sized and shaped Bonsai Pot.
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