Creation art bonsai has arisen in China for two centuries BC. In pots Buddhist monks initially were engaged in cultivation of trees, later this occupation became fashionable among the rich nobility.
1. If you want to grow up the first bonsai, as they say, from scratch, go to the park or the forest where the adults giving acorns oaks grow. Find the arisen acorn to be sure that it is live. But it is better to choose ready sprout with clean, not sick leaves, as about 15 cm high.
2. At yourself you need to have bayonet blade and plastic bucket. At first gather in it lands in meter from sprout together with fallen leaves, without eliminating anything how many will be located in capacity for future bonsai. This soil is necessary for tree as it from his usual environment, here it was born.
3. Now accurately dig out small oaklet, do not pull it from the earth for trunk at all, the sprout has to be taken out together with earth lump, its roots should not though how many and that to suffer. Houses slightly shake off the earth from tree, wash away the remains cold water. Find the central root which grows down, cut off it obliquely edge from razor or stationery knife, having left the 7-10th lengths.
4. Ware for bonsai has to be wide, but small depth, at most the 10-15th, in shop special bonsaynitsa are on sale, but it is possible to use also the available dish type ware. On bottom fill drainage layer: about 1 cm of sand, small pebbles in one layer, then the brought earth. Fill it the hill that excess water after watering did not accumulate around tree roots.
5. In one or one and a half months it will be clear to you whether the sapling has taken root, in positive case it is possible to start actions for change of exterior of tree. Begin with trunk form, for this purpose make around it one round of wire and fix it for edge of ware, having slightly pulled, the bend needs to be done very gradually not to break bonsai. Tighten wire only when the tree trunk ceases to be unbent back.
6. In process of emergence of new branches form bonsai krone. Excess branches can be deleted accurately with edge, to bend the others by means of wire under which it is necessary to enclose pieces of soft matter not to damage bark. For giving of nodosity to trunk and branches make an incision bark of bonsai also edge, but not round, differently the movement of juice of tree will be broken, and it can die. In order that the oaklet has slowed down the growth, it is necessary to buy special fertilizing in which the amount of the substances favoring to growth is reduced. You hold Bonsaynitsu on windowsill for the best lighting, transfer tree to balcony in the winter, water not more often than once a month.