Bonsai style

[dangerdan]

Any body got any info as my mate was talkin about it.....Is he for real or what??

Do u need a type of strain???

[bufo marinus]

Yes bonsai is a happening thing, although I wouldn't class it as true bonsai

I've kept very small mothers for 18 months successfully, some people have stated they have kept mothers for 10-15 years.

The reason I say not true bonsai, and I could be wrong, is that the plant is kept tiny but as new shoots start growing they grow out normal size.

Wish I'd kept some old pics but imangine a plant as round as a soccer ball with 6-8 branches, tiny new shoots everywhere with small leaves the size you'd find right at the bottom of a stalk, with a few end shoots growing out to normal size. That very tiny plant would be good for 4-8 clones per trim every 3-4 weeks, kept under flouros feeding at half strength nutes. About every 5 months it would need a root trim and repot into a small pot with perlite.

[godonacid]

just put up an old overgrow post on this a day or 2 ago, in the grow technique area i think

[bufo marinus]

https://cannabis.community.forums.ozstoners...c=14805&hl=

[smoke p]

is it a type of food u use aswell

[67Special]

I don't think so you just don't feed them much.

 

I haven't tried bonsai with a mully, but I grew bonsai figs in straight sand with no feed at all for about 5 yrs.

 

In that OG post by oldtimer, he said 1/2 strength nutes twice a month

 

[MongyMan]

Some strains will bonsai better than others, but yea its not hard to do. As 67 said dont feed them much and dont give the roots heaps of room to grow into. I've never done them in hydro but in soil it is easy.

[Dave The Nefarious]

Trimming the roots and some older foliage helps keep it small too. Ive currently got a Lowryder x Master Kush growing in a 30ml shotglass, in a base of clay pebbles (tiny ones, hand picked). "You're an idiot Dave"

[buck]

i have done a fair bit of bonzia propargation and i find with many plants including mullies that if you pinch the tops it will reduce the size of the new shoots and make them bushier i use this method with my grows to get the scrog going and have played with it outside on some to , i also use this on my mothers in the past to produce more tips for cloning more clones as well as to keep them smaller than letting them go feral..