Lime Sulphur was originally developed as a winter wash (fungicide and insecticide) and used to spray trees during the Winter to kill any residual moulds, fungi and overwintering insects or eggs.
Lime sulphur: Chemical used to used to preserve your Jin and Shari (dead wood) on your bonsai. It whiten the stripped branch or trunk in order to mature a jin or shari.
Lime Sulphur - Jin seal
Lime sulphur imparts a silvery white colour.
Bonsai Glossary: lime sulphur - Used to paint jins and deadwood areas to bleach and preserve.
Bonsai Glossary: mame - A miniature bonsai, which can be held in the palm of a hand.
Deciduous species can have lime sulphur applied to help preserve the wood and to treat the wood but the effect of bleaching white is often unsuitable for these species.
I treat dead wood areas with lime sulphur mixed with a drop of black acrylic paint to darken the jin and give it a more natural appearance.
George suggested that we help Nature along by spraying the debarked twigs with lime sulphur. This would preserve the twigs and fade them rapidly to driftwood tones. We have allowed nature to take its course and the twigs are aging gracefully! ...
As for the driftwood on this one, the whole tree is practically one big piece of driftwood, with a small lifeline on the very left side of the tree. Just for the record, I didn't use any lime sulphur on this one.
A strip of bark can be removed from the trunk on the stressed side, but be careful not to strip bark from just below a branch or the foliage on that branch will die. This is called shari. Several applications of lime sulphur will help preserve the ...
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