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108 Creating your own bonsai

Making cuts and sealing wounds

Make clean
cuts flush to
the trunk

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Use a small-toothed saw to remove any Keep cuts as small as possible, but the Shave the rough edges of the wound
branches larger than pencil thickness. priority is to ensure wounds can heal in using a sharp, sterile knife, and shape so
Removing large branches can cause an attractive way. By making a slightly that it is completely flush to the trunk.
dieback; here, the branch directly below larger cut flush to the trunk, this scar will This speeds up the callusing process and
the wound ensures this is not a concern. become almost invisible in the future. ensures the final scar is less obvious.

Improving shape and taper

Leave at least
one healthy
bud if you want
new branches
to form

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Prune the remaining branches into To encourage compact branching and
shape. Here, the aim is to introduce a introduce natural changes of direction,
natural-looking change of direction by look at reducing straight sections. Most
encouraging upward and outward deciduous trees produce more secondary
growth, and create a tapered shape. branching when pruned to healthy buds.