Raising Ficus Ginseng to become a bonsai

Where can I get a Ficus Ginseng as a bonsai?

You can grow a Ficus Ginseng yourself from a young plant as a bonsai. To do this, however, you need a lot of patience, which a beginner often does not have. It is therefore advisable to buy a bonsai right away. The Ficus Ginseng is often offered in this form, so it is not difficult to get one.

The essentials in brief:

• good to grow as a bonsai
• often found in stores
• sensitive to frost
• suitable for room culture
• can go outside in summer
• Location: bright, without direct sun, at approx. 18 ° C to 22 ° C
• water and fertilize as needed
• carefully and purposefully prune

Can my Ficus Bonsai go outside?

The Ficus Ginseng is very sensitive to frost, but is welcome to spend the summer in the garden. However, you should treat him to a well-protected location here, he doesn't like the blazing sun, wind or waterlogging. Slowly get used to the air changes and bring your bonsai back into the warmth when the night temperatures drop to around 10 ° C to 12 ° C.

How do I care for my ficus as a bonsai?

Even if the ficus ginseng is not difficult to use maintain is, he has some claims that you shouldn't neglect. So the floor can dry out slightly, but never really dry out. It is best to always water when the top soil layer feels a bit dry.

Fertilize your Ficus Ginseng from April to September in the form of sticks or liquid fertilizer about every 14 days. Special bonsai fertilizer is not necessary for this, more commercially available Flower fertilizer(€ 71.80 at Amazon *) is completely sufficient. The bay fig is not fertilized in winter.

Cut and wire the ficus ginseng

By Cut and wires, the young, still soft shoots of Ficus Ginseng can be brought into shape very well. Start wiring in early spring and don't leave the wire on the plant for more than four weeks.

The main cutting measures:

• Conservation cut: from May to September about every 6 weeks
• if pruned too seldom, no shoots out of old wood
• Regularly remove growing or unwanted shoots from the desired shape
• do not remove too many young shoots at the same time
• do not let thick twigs stand over thin branches
• Always cut 3 mm above an outward-facing eye
• Cut back shoots with 5 to 7 leaves to 2 to 3 leaves