Bonsai seeds

Tree seeds used for bonsai are a great idea. While a bonsai seed as many people understand it doesn’t exist, regular tree seeds will be helpful for any people interesting themselves to bonsai.

The common understanding of bonsai seeds is that they are special tree seeds that once sown and germinated, will yield a tree looking like a bonsai tree. Many kits in a box can be bought for cheap. Usually these kits will contain a small bonsai pot, a few seeds, soil, a small pair of shear and a paper with basic instructions on how to germinate your seed. These kits will usually have a seed or two of a popular tree species used for bonsai and labelled as bonsai kit in a box.

The reality is that any tree seeds will do to grow a bonsai. Any tree seeds of your favourite species will yield a regular tree if left untrained. The secret for a tree looking like a bonsai is the training and the application of bonsai techniques.

Tree seeds are useful for bonsai because it can produce a lot of potential trees for cheap. Tree seeds can also be good to find special tree. Out of the number of seedlings, you can find a few that have special bonsai characteristics like rapid grower, smaller leaves, leaves of different color, smaller internodes, really bushy plants etc… And if you are very lucky, you will find one that has all those special characteristics. This is how new cultivars are born and found. You can then propagate this special seedling with tree cuttings and hope that it become widely popular and maybe the new cultivar will sport your name.

However, while tree seeds are good to do bonsai for several reasons, it is not the best way to learn the bonsai art. Learning bonsai is best done at your local bonsai club, by attending beginner’s course and of course reading bonsai books.

Another learning method or process is actually doing bonsai. Trying to style a tree into a nice looking bonsai tree will further help in learning how to actually do bonsai. Be aware, you will learn by mistake and sometime learning by mistake when dealing with live plants means you will kill a tree. Actually, you will probably kill a few when you will try some aggressive bonsai training techniques. A little bit of patience is also useful when doing bonsai.

Patience is indeed a key in being successful in bonsai. Some say that doing bonsai is like painting; however, you can only do one or two brush stroke per growing season. Having patience when doing bonsai is also essential since you must take time to reflect and visualise on the future and the next step to be taken for your bonsai trees.

Since patience is essential in bonsai, it is also essential when doing bonsai and starting a tree from tree seeds. A few years are surely needed just to gain some girth on your seedling trunk. Bonsai Training techniques can be applied on a young seedling if you intend on doing a small bonsai, see a mame or shohin size bonsai tree.