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Here is a complete DIY guide on how to make your own coconut bonsai.

How to Make Coconut Bonsai - Bonsai is one of the interesting ornamental plants. Bonsai is a small miniature plant of the original plant form. Types of bonsai also vary, many different plants are minimized by the method of crops or trees.

Plants or trees that can be bonsai for example is a coconut tree. Coconut bonsai plant has a unique shape, and is suitable to be home decoration. There are also interesting branched coconut bonsai with a more unique shape.

Bonsai coconut.
Quite a lot of interest in the market of ornamental plants, especially bonsai lovers.

Of course all readers think, how can a plant as big as a coconut tree converted into branched coconut bonsai that has a small size. Of course the reader is curious. Well, Listen this article to finish to know how to make coconut bonsai branching.

Specify Coconut Type.
Initial stage to make coconut bonsai. There are several types of coconut that can be bonsai. Such as red ivory coconut, coconut milk ivory, and albino coconut. There are characteristics to know the type of coconut.

For red ivory coconut has a yellowish red color. When it becomes a red ivory coconut bonsai will be very beautiful and unique. But for the treatment of red ivory bonsai coconut is also quite troublesome.

The most difficult in treating the red ivory bonsai is to maintain its red color. To maintain it we need to use a lot of fertilizer. Because of this plant when the lack of substances contained in the fertilizer, the color of plants will return to green.

As for milk ivory has a white color and this plant grows in many subtropical areas. In addition to bonsai, this type of coconut is also used as a substitute for palm trees to be placed in the park.

Then the type of coconut albino has the same color with milk coconut is white color. Coconut albino has a white color that is not pale plain. The color is lighter or close to the silver color. Of course when it becomes bonsai, this type of coconut is very interesting and unique.

Well, readers already know the types of coconut that can be bonsai. Next choose the reader likes or in accordance with the tastes of readers to be bonsai.

Coconut seeds need to be selected the best, if the origin of the choice may not grow well. The best coconut seed for bonsai is the old one. Due to the old coconut will be faster to grow new shoots.

It would be better to pick coconut seeds directly from the tree. When the seeds that have fallen, may be seedlings will grow with a less than perfect shape. Or it could also coconut shells have been fragile or broken due to impact when falling.

For seed size, choose the size of the shell that is not too big or small. But it has big and powerful roots. Seedlings with small coconut shells will also facilitate when the shape of the stem later.

Determining Coco Position.
The starting place for the development of coconut is in the shell. So it is necessary to determine the position of the shell according to the desired bonsai pattern.

First, place seeds that do not have buds on soil that has a lot of water content. Seedlings will grow shoots approximately approximately 1 to 2 weeks.

Then, put the coconut shell in a vertical position, coconut shell will be surrounded by roots. Or it could also be placed horizontally, later the coconut bonsai shape will be like a snail's house.

Coconut husk freshly cleaned when coconut shoots have appeared. to saturate the coir can by peeling with longitudinal incisions around the shell.

When cutting the shell, it is necessary to be careful not to concern new shoots and roots. Furthermore, after slashed, can directly peeled all coconut husk attached to the coconut shell.

The next step after the coconut husk looks clean is to clean the fine hair on the coconut shell. The fine hairs can be removed using a knife until the coconut shell is clean. Can also after clean of the feathers, crushed shell again using sandpaper.
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Provide a pot with a size appropriate to the size of the shell, or able to accommodate coconut shells. then fill the pot with a mixture of soil, water, and manure, with a measurement size of 2: 1: 1.

If the pot is filled, next is to prepare a bottle of mineral water to be used as a cover of the coconut shoots. why coconut shoots closed? The reason for it to grow quickly. Bottled mineral water was cut the top of the bottle with a height of approximately 5 cm.

Coconut shell sprout can be directly inserted into pots that contain a mixture of soil, water, and manure. The coconut bonsai growers branched off slowly. Place the coconut shell with a sloping position. Then when putting into the planting medium, do not make the roots break.

Forming:
This stage is important enough to make coconut bonsai. What is done so that the bonsai form remains small, it is necessary to make syringe in the older shoots.

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