Orlando Bonsai » leaf reduction https://www.orlandobonsai.com The purpose of this site is to share and enjoy the art, history and horticulture of bonsai and to provide current bonsai news and information. Sun, 19 Sep 2021 06:47:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Defoliation https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=279 https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=279#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:42:44 +0000 http://orlandobonsai.com/blog/?p=267

With all of the new growth recently on this tree I decided to defoliate the tree. I did this for two reasons, first is to shrink the size of the leaves. However I also did it to send more energy to the thread grafts. As you can see in the picture to the left, two of the three grafts are going strong. One didn’t make it. However by leaving only leaves on the graft branches they will thicken up and grow faster as the rest of the tree is producing leaves. I did this last year and it worked very well. I also have on branch with leaves that I will use to finish the third and final graft. It should be ready in about 2 weeks. June 2004


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