Forsythia x intermedia - cuttings cuttings When raising a Forsythienbonsai in Shohingröße is always worth the way over the cuttings.
cut your cuttings after flowering. In my experiments I have cuttings of weak growth and cut by fast-growing branches. The cuttings of low-growing branches look more interesting from a Shohin. They have short internodes and already some movement. While cuttings from strongly growing branches always look very sparrig. The internodes are often very long and so is the first piece of stem from our cutting straight and can no longer be formed. Here they must find a middle ground.
In Torfquelltöpfchen we see immediately if the cuttings have rooted. Now they are including the potty just planted in a flower pot and stay there until next spring. 
the first repotting it is very important to remove the vertically growing roots. The only way to be able to develop a broad Nebari.
beginners tend to accept this when they cut a cutting and they eventually grow a bonsai. This is of course nonsense. To get a good Bonsai should be cut a lot of cuttings, at least 20 pieces. During the development of the cuttings can happen a lot. Each seedling is developing, in spite of identical conditions, different. Sun sieved the good cuttings over the years, again and again and it will be less and less. In the end, the best pupil is over and we are proud to have developed a beautiful bonsai from a cutting.
The early summer is a good time to cut cuttings. The fresh branches should be slightly lignified.
cuttings they can cut with a sharp knife or scissors. Always cut on a diagonal right nodes (leaf nodes). Do not cut between the nodes, since there the hollow areas of the branch are located. Root hormone can be used to obviously, but it is not absolutely necessary. Your cuttings are so rooted in three to four weeks. As a plug substrate, they can take simple Torfquelltöpfchen or just wet pumice. The forsythia rooted in virtually any substrate. Of course, should the plant substrate do not contain fertilizer.
If your cuttings are rooted, plant them this until next spring in a flower pot. Until then, they do nothing to the roots, which are intended to strengthen the first, a little. 
After the first root section. Only radially growing Roots are obtained. As you can see this delicate little plant wants to grow like a wide Nebari. 
A cutting in the first year. The holey leaves are formed in a hail storm. 
the second repotting has already developed a small root thickening. 
optimal root development. Again all are removed vertically growing roots. The following year they take the cuttings from all over the world. Now begins directly Design. Here, we make nothing but the stems that are not yet interested. Important first is a proper design of the root approach. All vertically growing roots, we must remove, they are not good enough to take root thickening at, in addition to our tree so later fit into a shallow dish. In the radially growing roots, we must establish a balance. From all sides, the roots grow right tight. Fits you at this early stage, not the fast-growing areas of the weaker, later you will reach no more Nebari really good. Did you cut the roots, is given to the young plants back for a year a suitable pot. As a substrate for such young plants has proven himself to me for the first two years, a mixture of coarse peat and Akadama. 
After a year in the pond planting basket. Looks OK so far, but it would be much more growth possible. The leaves are a little pale in the summer heat. 
Potted in blazing heat. So far, all cuttings had survived. This action has also been no failures. Forsythia are enormously resilient. has 
The root ball develops in most cuttings very good. forsythia have a tremendous root growth. They often stand out in the summer out in small pots. One should therefore make its seedlings plenty of room for a decent root growth are available.
At the time (2004), I had achieved very good results in the rearing of young plants pond plant baskets. So it was for me absolutely clear that my Forsythienstecklinge would develop rapidly in a pond planting basket. Also, I was sure that they would thereby reach a very impressive, wide Nebari. So I pots in the summer of 2003, all in pond plant baskets order. and in the summer of 2004 I pots to all cuttings in summer.
you read that right, in the summer.
I did this to determine how robust forsythia really are. On this day, I tortured my cuttings really. Under my roof terrace were above 40 ° C heat. The trees did hang the leaves anyway, since I usually only pour into the evening hours. But despite this ordeal, there were no failures. Until then, I had already potted forsythia in late May and nothing happened. But in early July that was daring. Now I ask, on the claim that one can repot forsythia twice a year. In the bonsai pot they cancel often in summer out because of the enormous growth of roots. In an older plant I've ever tasted, even here there were no problems. Whether this is always be made as possible, I need to prove but still with several attempts. This should be described here but please understand it only as an indication of the vitality of the forsythia. The best Umtopfzeit is still the end of April, right after flowering. Before repotting, you can remove all withered buds with your fingers. This ensures a better shoots from leaf buds on old wood.
victim shoots
forsythia have the urge to grow again and again new shoots from the roots emerge. If these Shoots at appropriate points of the stem base, they can very well grow as victims branches. They then help to broaden the base of the stem faster. These drives can not be too wide and remove them in time, so that no large-section scars. Very soon, then again there are new shoots, which in turn is used as a sacrificial branches. grow 
Since Forsythia in Nebaribereich always new shoots, these can be very good as a "victim shoots" of course. They thicken well the stem base. 
they have done their work, to cut it off. It will not take long to develop new shoots, which are then used again as a victim shoots.
Forsythia x intermedia - Plants procurement The forsythia in the bonsai design As seen in the plant probably good portrait is the bonsai for forsythia design quite good. So far it has only rarely been described in many trees and not Strauchlexiken and only rarely in the bonsai literature. Many bonsai enthusiasts have forsythia previously estimated to be barely configurable, with proven techniques as they often did not follow the desired path of the designer. Often, it helps in the death of the entire stem of the tree and then drove out only at the foot of the trunk again. The they have a forsythia but may very well raise the bonsai, I would like to explain to them the following.
If you pass on his skills as a writer, it is probably so that you then tell his mistakes would not want to. Here I have to do it though. Just when I explain my error in my experiments with the forsythia, it is inconceivable to them why you must use the Forsythiengestaltung often unfamiliar techniques. It is the path of "trial and error" which leads ultimately to success. to come plant procurement
on suitable plants for bonsai design is on Forsythia no problem. The shrub grows wild everywhere in April and can be controlled in such copies, the flower color. If you have found a good color, you simply cut a few cuttings. The forsythia is indeed an olive tree plant and like all members of this genus it is rooted very fast and reliable. Forsythia rarely form in the free state of a single, strong stem. If one has found such a copy and dig it wants, of course you need permission from the owner. Such thick specimens can also collect very good. At their habitat they can be most safely chop out of the ground, they root very quickly. A disadvantage is very large interfaces are not comfortable in old copies of a überwallt Wundkallus. There is a risk that the tree rotted over the years from within.
are seeing very few large forsythia in exhibitions. They are usually in Shohin or pulled in Mamegröße. prepare
seedlings in a stool bed is another way of raising plants. It can be a plant two to three years and looks to be rampant, what I can do it. Only if, in the usually more sturdy young plants root approach has examined, one realizes that here is often very interesting "raw material" has grown up. 
A young multi-stemmed plant. Such a material provides the bonsai friend in the rule to be unsuitable for a design.
The young plant has become after two years of growth in stool very well. Now the root ball to be washed out to assess him. Only at this point of interest. The stock number and the subsequent level of the bonsai will be important later. 
comes after washing out a nice, wide roots approach to light. This could be a tree with 'linked root " be.
In four years from this can be a beautiful multi-master Shohin.
Forsythia x intermedia - Tree Portrait The forsythia - Forsythia x intermedia
The rough beauty of bonsai design Reiner Vollmari
The forsythia is one of the family of the olive family (Oleacaea) to. The genus Forsythia has nine species that are found mainly in East Asia. Forsythia europaea is from the Southeast European region. The forsythia, which we admire in April as spring flowering bulbs is a hybrid (F. x intermedia), which viridissima has developed from the species F. suspensa and F.. Here I have deliberately called "our native forsythia" omitted. shows exactly the date, namely 1833, when the forsythia came from her native Japan and China to Europe. At that time she was named after the English gardener William Forsyth. Their attractive flowers caused a rapid spread throughout Europe and America.
The forsythia is a shrub that grows to a height of 1.5 to 3 meters. Late March to early May, the forsythia blooms abundantly, even before the leaves. The flower has four sepals, two stamens and four petals are bell-shaped adherent. This has the shrubs also the German name "Gold Bell" is introduced. After pollination the flower forms a fruit capsule.
The leaves of F. x intermedia have a narrow, lanceolate outline and reach a length of 7 - 12 cm. Only in particularly fast-growing shoots are three divided leaves.
The bark of the trunk and branches color varies from light brown to slightly olive tones.
important in shaping the bonsai is to tell the difference, the buds of forsythia. The ocher-colored buds have ever ordered against several bud scales on. In addition to lateral and terminal buds also Beiknospen enrichment and buds are present. Beiknospen are usually arranged slightly below the lateral buds, while enriching buds are in the axils of the stipules. The Beiknospen enrichment and buds are often used to flowering. The flower buds are already created in the late summer of last year. Winter frost can cause the buds do no harm. This is probably for us a very favorable circumstance Bonsai friends. The forsythia has to be suspended in winter temperatures well below freezing, so abundant in the spring bloom. Once the flowers have opened, however, should the forsythia from the risk of late frosts be protected. For in the flower it is very sensitive to frost.
All are in their branches from forsythia no full marks. With F. x intermedia find a useful marker only in the nodes (bud nodes). The internodes are usually hollow, while the crossing points of the nodes have a range of marks. The branches are square 
bud mutations of Forsythia x intermedia. Left a normal leaf. The right blade shape to the most driven shoots. In the bonsai design dreigelappte leaf shapes come very rarely. You would hardly even use, because during these leaves very long internodes. 
In all the books indicated that forsythia reach a height of 1.5 to 3 meters. In a protected location, they can also be six feet high. The forsythia loves full sun. Even if they shade also gets along well, the bonsai friend noticed a full sun location, a beautiful flower and leaf color.
The shrub is tolerant ground. This means that he gets along well with all types of surfaces when the humidity is right.
The forsythia is in all parts slightly toxic. However, one has already a large amount of leaves, flowers and wood eat before they cause discomfort to severe nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. While the shrub is planted exclusively in Europe as an ornamental plant, the Chinese won fruits of F. suspensa acting antibacterial and fungicide. These are used in inflammation, fever and poisoning.
diseases occur in the forsythia extremely rare. In rare cases (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum) to branch death. This is a fungal disease that can affect many others besides the forsythia shrubs. This fungus penetrates the bark, and it comes very quickly to the death of the cortex. It is believed that the infection is on the flowers, because one could observe that the first infection usually occurs at the flowering nodes. It has yet to make any major concern. An infected drives the forsythia bush quickly below the affected areas again. Thus, the damage is limited.
form in the dead bark is called sclerotia. If you cut this, it can be seen under a black crust, a bright mycelium. This form apothecia, which in turn develop ascospores, which are damaging to the host plant on.
so it is important to remove if found, all dead branches immediately.
As other disease can only be called root rot. This is the bonsai friend but most of themselves in debt because he then used an inappropriate plant substrate.
Meanwhile, there are many different cultivars of the forsythia. These are mostly cultivars of F. x intermedia. They vary but usually only on the flower color. So there are very strong, dark yellows or more pale colors.
The nurseries provide as even a large selection. Actually you need but no nursery to come to beautiful specimens of forsythia. Everywhere wild bushes are found. Leaving aside a very nice Flower color, you simply cut a few cuttings and already one has in a short time, many new Forsythiensträucher possession.
Of the pure species, particularly the Chinese Hängeforsythie (F. suspensa) interesting. As a bonsai can be shaped into a weeping willow good shape. There are also different hybrids on the market, and F. spectabilis x should be very interesting. This hybrid brings large flowers have a beautiful yellow-orange color.
The unpopular foreign
the end of the tree portraits I like to make also some critical voices. If you have a Forsythia have, they will surely have already noticed that this shrub is completely ignored by all insects. This has the simple reason that the shrub does not belong here, he is a stranger. No bee can be found in the honey, even aphids disdain the forsythia. No caterpillar eats the leaves and twig blight mentioned above is also found in their original location. Here in Europe it is immune to most diseases. Even though the forsythia has made its way over almost the whole earth, this increase is actually being called not good. It displaces native flowers and shrubs, birds find food in their branches, ecologically, it has in our region is absolutely no value. In the selection of my trees, I actually always look after, that there are varieties that can be called home. The exceptions make as Acer palmatum, and Forsythia. Especially the forsythia has indeed because of these reasons, a very good condition for bonsai design.
