Creating Bonsai From Nursery Stock

How to select a nursery plant in order to create a bonsai.

Creating bonsai from nursery stock.

Position the tree off centre in the pot about a third to the one side. Instead it was created to show that quality bonsai can indeed be created from common nursery or garden center stock and that such sources of material should not be readily dismissed as a source for quality material. Step one for repotting a pre bonsai olive from nursery material into bonsai training pot is to check where the main roots are located. Nursery stock tried and true stock for bonsai.

This article however deals with the question. How do you make a bonsai from nursery stock. Spread roots evenly and fill the pot slowly with the bonsai soil. In this video jason goes over the step by step process for creating a bonsai from a 1 gallon juniper juniper procumbens nana nursery stock.

Great stock comes from where you find it there is no price or purchase location that will assure that any stock is of high quality. In some cases you are lucky and the base of the tree displays an enormous swell creating a monster nebari. He discusses the thought process on designing the tree at each step and how to approach nursery stock. Nursery versus bonsai stock.

In this video jason goes over the step by step process for creating a bonsai from a 1 gallon juniper juniper procumbens nana nursery stock. Found a good deal on a great nursery stock pre bonsai trident new member too maples. Jason goes over the techniques such as cleaning branch selection and pruning. There are many ways to create a bonsai tree such as growing from seed cutting back a tall well developed tree or air layering branches or even the trunk of and older tree but these take many years before you can even start training them into shape.

Go to another forum disillusioned you ask yourself why do they keep telling me this is not a bonsai and refer to this as a mallsai. In another article i might expand a little and share my thoughts on mallsai. Bonsai branch selection. I selected these trees because they showed some surface roots and the base of the tree showed some swelling.

My first tree nursery stock new to bonsai. How to create a bonsai from nursery stock.