How to raise golden egg bonsai
1, planting place. Golden marbles like sunny and ventilated environment. The golden marbles placed on the roof platform have dense branches and leaves, and blossom and bear fruit early. If the gold marble is maintained in the gap between buildings, it is best to put it on a high platform to facilitate ventilation and lighting.
2. Water and fertilizer management. In the stage of promoting branches by stocking golden marbles, water and fertilizer management should be carried out to facilitate the rapid growth of branches and meet the requirements of transitional coordination as soon as possible. Water and fertilizer should be properly controlled during the fruit and ornamental period, and no watering is allowed. In summer and autumn, watering should be done before sunrise or after sunrise in the morning and evening and at sunset in the evening. When the sun is strong, watering should be stopped, and topdressing liquid fertilizer should be carried out in the afternoon when the sun sets. Watering in winter is usually done at noon or in the afternoon when there is sunshine. It is not advisable to water too much in winter, and the basin soil can be slightly wet, because there is more frost and fog in the evening in winter, and the basin soil will regain its moisture on its own.
3. turn over the pot and change the soil. Don't cut the roots and branches of the golden marbles any more. You can change the pots all year round. Places with poor environmental conditions can be cultivated in spring and autumn. The interval between turning pots is usually once every three or four years, which can be advanced or postponed for one or two years according to the specific situation. Generally, bonsai is trimmed once when the pots are turned over and the soil is changed. If the roots and branches are too heavily pruned, finally use oxidized deep soil, and after the bonsai resumes growth, adopt the method of applying fertilizer thinly and applying it frequently for maintenance.
4. Pest control. Generally speaking, there are few pests and diseases of golden marbles, but in the case of poor ventilation and lighting conditions and long-term water accumulation in pots and pans, it is easy to produce leaf wax, skin rust and other pests and diseases. Generally, it can be prevented by spraying fast killing and cypermethrin solution or improving ventilation and lighting conditions.
Golden marble grows well in both acidic and alkaline soils, and has nothing to do with soil.
The sandy soil formed by the weathering of grayish brown purple sandstone in Shaximiao Formation is low in organic matter, available phosphorus and available potassium. Golden marble growing in this soil has long roots and light piles, which can be taken out completely. It is suitable for root bonsai, and it is usually cultivated with roots instead of stems.
In the red aggregate soil developed by purple mudstone weathering and the sand aggregate soil formed by mudstone weathering in the middle of Suining Formation, there are few fine roots, heavy piles and deep roots, so it is difficult to dig out complete roots, and the roots that have not been taken out of the soil will germinate and continue to grow after root cutting. Piles are usually thick and thin, so it is difficult to have a long foundation. In order to improve the quality, individual piles can also be planted upside down.
Good gold marble can often be seen in the cracks and tuyeres of rock slopes, with peculiar growth and few deep roots, which are often flat roots (because the soil is mainly organic nutrient soil washed down from the mountain and dispersed in the surface layer, the main roots can not continue to penetrate into the rock, so the container effect is generated, and there are certain fine roots on the surface layer), and there are often bent, dry, blocky and grotesque piles, and many good piles are obtained from the cracks in cliff rocks.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Golden Marbles