Elm Bonsai Beginners Guide (Pruning, Unwiring and Scar-care)
Many beginners start of with an elm bonsai (Often mis-labelled as zelkova bonsai!). That leads to fundamental questions for bonsai beginners: How do you prune an elm bonsai? When is the wire on too long? And how do you handle large cuts on elm bonsai?
In this video I will show in detail how to prune, when wire should be removed from bonsai and how to treat large cuts to heal over.
0:00 Elm (often called Zelkova) is a great bonsai for beginners
0:50 Elm are top-dominant trees
1:35 How to prune an elm bonsai?
2:35 Directional pruning Elm bonsai
5:00 Trunk development pruning of Elm bonsai
6:20 How to heal a big cut on an Elm bonsai?
8:06 How long to leave wire on an elm bonsai?
9:14 What does wire biting in look like on an elm bonsai?
10:35 Do you need to unwire the whole bonsai at the same time?
10:57 How to wire in a bonsai with little roots?
11:35 Treating cuts to heal on Elm bonsai
12:30 Structural pruning for taper of an elm bonsai
14:14 2 weeks after pruning an elm bonsai
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