Pruning Mature (Scale) and Immature (Needle) Foliage Pinching such growth will require a lot of effort and very often the green bark will come away leaving a very thin piece of lignified wood behind. Foliage or shoot growth that has hardened, or is too strong to be pinched out using the technique described below must simply be cut with scissors. Junipers should be pruned using a mixture of two techniques, scissor pruning and pinching out. Pinching and Scissor Pruning Juniper Foliage It is therefore important to thin out the foliage mass periodically to ensure even distribution of air and light to the foliage as a whole. However, after repeated pruning the foliage mass becomes very dense and can block air and light from getting to the lower and interior branches causing them to weaken and potentially dieback. The foliage mass can be repeatedly pruned to shape throughout the growing season. This is followed by new extending shoots through the Summer until early Autumn.
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Junipers begin to come to life from early April as temperatures begin to rise at the beginning of the growing season by producing a full flush of new buds and leaves. Professional bonsai artist, many people will remark that they once had a bonsai, but it died and with some regret, they gave up".īased on the Bonsai Basics section of the hugely successful website and an e-book of the same name, 'Bonsai Basics: The Foundations of Bonsai', written and developed over the past 15 years is out now!Īs with all conifers, branches should always be left with enough foliage to support them, never prune so heavily that a branch is almost devoid of foliage or it will die off.
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