Buying Bonsai From Nursery Stock (prebonsai)

Nursery stock are young garden plants (also named prebonsai), that occasionally have fantastic qualities for Bonsai purposes. Acquiring Bonsai nursery stock can be a rapidly way of ‘propagating’ a tree and also you can start off appropriate away with coaching it.

Exactly where to locate preBonsai / nursery stock

Excellent high quality nursery stock may be difficult to locate, attempt taking a look at modest loved ones owned nurseries (huge industrial retailers typically do not sell rough material). Some (on the internet) Bonsai shops sell nursery stock at the same time, but this comes at a cost larger than at tiny nurseries.

What to appear for in nursery stock?

This can be rather difficult to clarify, your abilities to seek out possible material will enhance after you find out much more about increasing Bonsai. Even so, essential elements to appear for will be the species of Bonsai tree, shape from the trunk, tapering from the trunk, the tree’s branching structure and its Nebari (root flare or surface roots). The photographs under show examples of great good quality preBonsai, extremely appropriate to become educated as a Bonsai.

Location the newly purchased nursery stock outdoors (unless it truly is an indoor tree certainly) and maintain it damp, but not wet. The trees might be fertilized making use of standard quantities as described within the fertilizing section. It depends upon the season in which you purchase the nursery stock whether or not or not you are able to begin education the tree correct away. When purchased through the early spring you are able to prune and repot trees instantly, but in the event you get trees later inside the year you ought to wait till the following spring.