Bonsai Wire Scars

Basically two kinds of wire can be used.

Bonsai wire scars. Mel wire scars are all too common on figs. During the growth season branches grow thick quite fast and as a result the wire will cut into the bark creating ugly scars. Check on your tree regularly and remove the wire on time. Two once the initial wire injury occurs and heals a bit the tree stops further healing over the scar.

He shows how the wire has affected the branches and trunk on a raw material prostrata juniper bonsai. Bonsai wire scarring how to remove wire to minimize damage to branch. This occurs especically with slower grower trees trees in bonsai pots and trees growing indoors. However it is aesthetically unpleasing to the eye.

In this video jason demonstrates how to remove wire that has grown around the trunk of a tree due to the wire being on the tree for too long. One they grow so quickly during certain seasons of the year that wire scarring is likely unless one watchesalmost daily for signs of wire getting too tight. One way to avoid wire scars is doing bed springloose coil wiring as shown above. Wire scars are never desirable features on a bonsai and can be impossible to correct so prevention is the best cure.

Thicken the whole trunk from top to bottom focus on thickening the section below the scars remove the section with scars. Anodized aluminum and annealed copper. This shapes the branch by loosely wiring the branch and gently holding it to the desired position but not applying the wire tightly to the branch as in classical bonsai wiring. Bonsai scarring scarring occurs when wire is wrapped too tightly or left too long and the tree starts to outgrow the wiring.