Pruning techniques for developing azaleas

This video discusses several techniques for pruning azalea bonsai during their development.

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Howto & Style

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• jgeanangel
• bonsai
• azalea

[severusjsnape]

John- Thank you for the video, I'm becoming quite a fan of your no-nonsense approach please keep these vids coming! How late in the season can we safely cut back hard to the trunk removing all green foliage? Whats a rough cut off date for that first severe pruning and reduction and when you do it do you also trim the roots just as hard or leave them be?

[jgeanangel]

@severusjsnape Difficult question to answer specifically...you need to do it early enough that the foliage has time to harden off before winter. I suspect in my climate(zone 8) I could potentially go as late as early Aug. and I have done drastic work through the month of July. Typically I will work on the roots at the same time...when I do this I am thinking about trimming the roots enough to get them into a small pot in the future. Of course they will grow back some during the development.

[09flintstone]

Great video John. One question, with this clip and grow pruning do you allow the tree to flower at this stage .

[jgeanangel]

@09flintstone I do not worry about flowers during the development stage. If flowers are a concern I would not prune after mid to late June.

[sanjaybhalerao707]

I hav recently purchased a bonsai and it has only 2 stems and 4 flowers on 1of the the stem.pls help me.its my 1st bonsai pls help me out

[pyromaniac53]

i think you should transplant the azalea the way it is at 4:05

becaue of the shape and the the curve in the trunk

[bigdearmond]

I always feel that I have gone to far when pruning my azalea. After watching what you have done in this video, I feel a little better.

[M3I15]

wow still amazed by how much u learn from someone else thanks for the post John keep them coming

[hotjohnnyb77]

thats going to look good john

[09flintstone]

Thanks John. Look forward in seeing the progress.