Autumn Care Tips for Crabapple Bonsai: Master These Key Points

Autumn has now arrived. When the weather turns cold, we should promptly move the crabapple indoors for care, and the minimum temperature should be kept above 7°C, because crabapple has poor cold tolerance and is easily frostbitten in winter. Apart from this, what else do we need to do in autumn for the care and management of crabapple bonsai?

After entering autumn, as the temperature gradually drops and the weather turns cooler, the watering of crabapple bonsai should also be adjusted accordingly, because watering should be done as appropriate according to the season the plant is in. After entering autumn, the crabapple enters its growing period, so the amount of watering can be appropriately increased, as long as the potting soil is kept moist regularly.

And precisely because autumn is the growing season for crabapple, the consumption of nutrients is relatively greater, so timely topdressing also plays an important role in restoring its growth vigor. We can keep applying a dilute compound fertilizer to the crabapple once a week, but avoid splashing the fertilizer solution onto the leaves to prevent burning. After entering the colder winter, stop fertilizing in time.

Generally, after leaf fall in autumn, we need to carry out necessary pruning of the crabapple bonsai, mainly cutting off old, weak, diseased and dead branches. This is done mainly to reduce nutrient consumption, so that the plant has sufficient nutrients to strengthen its vigor. At the same time, it can also improve the plant's ventilation and light penetration, which is more conducive to the crabapple blooming, making it bloom more and more brilliantly.

For crabapples that are growing too vigorously, it is also necessary to repot and change the soil. Since crabapple is not very demanding about potting soil, we generally only need to prepare fertile, loose, deep sandy soil with strong air and water permeability, because crabapple prefers to grow in such soil.