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bonsai; defoliating an overview

Defoliating your bonsai keeps it small. This is perhaps one of the most important tasks for some species. By removing leaves you both keep branches shorter, encourage growth further back on the branch and ensure ramification. This leaves you with a tree bereft of leaves. Of course defoliating a bonsai does more than just keep the tree silhouette. Removing leaves causes ramification and reduction in leaf size. Smaller leaves are sometimes absolutely essential to achieve the illusion of age. Without small leave son a small tree things just don’t look right. Removing foliage helps to balance growth. By taking away the leaves you slow the growth of an active branch. Leaves provide the energy conversion (photosynthesis) and without this the growth slows. The process of defoliation can be very basic or very specific. Only parts of leaves, only some leaves, some branches, one half of a bonsai or the whole tree. Parts of leaves, the stem or whole branch tips.