At Bonsai Direct, we’re dedicated to helping you on your bonsai journey, offering expert advice on care, styling, and cultivation. In this tutorial, join Holly as she demonstrates how to train a Jade or Money Tree bonsai. She guides you step-by-step through the process of redirecting branches and repositioning the tree in its pot. With our expert guidance and quality tools, you’ll embark on your bonsai styling journey with confidence.
So I’ve just teased this lovely jade tree out here. What I’m struggling with is the fact that although I have tried wiring this trunk up, it isn’t very straight. So, you can see the bottom starts here and it comes out and back in again. Which means to try and get the centre of the top of the tree, which is here, straight in the pot it means the bottom here has got to go to the side.
I am going to put it back into its training pot.
So I’m going to tease out along here so that this will sit quite close in the pot. This should allow the top of the tree to sit centre in the pot. Okay, so he’s going to go up there and then we will wire down this branch here. Probably this branch as well. Create another pad here and then look at this wire to come down as well. And then we’ll have to wait a few months probably until this top of the tree here fills out.
This side of the roots needs to come up a little bit higher, so I’m going to put more soil on here to raise that up and you can start to see the centre of the top of the tree is becoming in line in the pot.
Whilst I am teasing this bonsai, I’m constantly looking at the top to make sure it’s in the right place it’s quite easy for it to fall over as you’re working in the soil.
Okay, that’s looking a lot better now i’m just going to wire down these side branches.
So if you can see with this branch here its growing off quite a lot of thick twigs up the side, I’m going to make this here the main branch. ‘ve wired out straight and then here we’ll bring it out from the side to create a really nice pad.
I think this branch here needs a little bit more shaping, so I’m going to come round from the trunk instead. So now I’ve just got this branch here to pull down. Okay so now we have our branches in the right place, i’m just going to trim back the top. Jades in particular can get very top heavy and that is often why it is caused with the tree trunk bending over like this. And there we go. So in a few months, we should then be able to take off the wire, and it should be all styled. And then we just need to wait for the foliage to grow back.
The Money Tree or Jade bonsai is an excellent air purifier, absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and contributing to clean air.
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