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What are the taboos of growing bonsai in summer? Keep these five points firmly in mind

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1. Avoid fertilizing. In the high temperatures of midsummer, the leaves lose water quickly. Fertilizing at this time will make the solute concentration of the trunk's cells lower than that of the surrounding environment, causing water in the plant cells to flow back into the soil, and the trunk will die of dehydration due to fertilizer damage. 2. Avoid drought. Watering when you remember and not watering when you forget, sometimes leaving it alone for several days in a row, and only quickly replenishing water once the leaves are found to be wilting, after which the leaves return to normal - this is a response of the trunk to adapt to the environment, but if this goes on for a long time, the excessively strong transpiration will eventually make the trunk difficult to recover from serious damage and die of dehydration. 3. Avoid water

1. Avoid fertilizing. In the high temperatures of midsummer, the leaves lose water quickly. Fertilizing at this time will make the solute concentration of the trunk's cells lower than that of the surrounding environment, causing water in the plant cells to flow back into the soil, and the trunk will die of dehydration due to fertilizer damage.

2. Avoid drought. Watering when you remember and not watering when you forget, sometimes leaving it alone for several days in a row, and only quickly replenishing water once the leaves are found to be wilting, after which the leaves return to normal - this is a response of the trunk to adapt to the environment, but if this goes on for a long time, the excessively strong transpiration will eventually make the trunk difficult to recover from serious damage and die of dehydration.

3. Avoid waterlogging. Some people think that watering frequently during high temperatures is beneficial to the growth of the trunk. In fact, when the potting soil is too wet, the roots remain in a state of anaerobic respiration for a long time, the trunk's root function of absorbing water, inorganic salts and minerals fails, and it eventually drowns and dies.

4. Avoid sunscald. When the ambient temperature exceeds 28°C, the bonsai should be shaded. Otherwise, the amount of water the trunk obtains from the soil is far less than the water lost through transpiration. In mild cases, the leaf edges are scorched and withered; in severe cases, the trunk is scorched and dies from severe damage.

5. Avoid sudden shade. Normally, to avoid high-temperature damage, when the ambient temperature exceeds the maximum temperature the trunk can tolerate, the bonsai should be moved to a lower-temperature area with weaker light, about 2°C lower, to benefit the trunk's growth. But if it is suddenly moved indoors or to a lower-temperature area, within a few days the leaves will naturally fall off and the tree trunk will shrink and die.

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