Bonsai! (Anyone else into torturing small trees?)

Bonsai with a difference Fuchsias, the society that I belong to puts on a display at Malvern Spring and Autumn Shows. In the display are quiet a few Bonsais mostly in the Spring Show.

The plants used are Encliandra Fuchsias that have small leaves and flowers that lend themselves to Bonsai.

Will see if I can find some photo's of them.

Trevor
 
Hope this works , Last Autumn show at Malvern. All Fuchsias we received a Gold medal for the stand this is only a portion , the other part was normal Fuchsias



Trevor
 
trevormc said:
Bonsai with a difference Fuchsias, the society that I belong to puts on a display at Malvern Spring and Autumn Shows. In the display are quiet a few Bonsais mostly in the Spring Show.

The plants used are Encliandra Fuchsias that have small leaves and flowers that lend themselves to Bonsai.

Will see if I can find some photo's of them.

Trevor
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Now that I'd like to see.
I do like fuschias :-)
 
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trevormc said:
Bonsai with a difference Fuchsias, the society that I belong to puts on a display at Malvern Spring and Autumn Shows. In the display are quiet a few Bonsais mostly in the Spring Show.

The plants used are Encliandra Fuchsias that have small leaves and flowers that lend themselves to Bonsai.

Will see if I can find some photo's of them.

Trevor
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Cool :)
And try again with the image. @trevormc
I'd like to see it too :)
 
Trying again.

First Stand from last Autumn then Large Bonsai Flashlight.

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Done it

Trevor
 
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Omg that second one is beautiful!!!
 
I keep trying to grow bonsai's but I have quiet a few holidays every year and they die on me while away ( nobody to look after them ).

Will try to take a photo of one I'm trying at the moment before I go away next weekend. If I can photograph it and a close up of an Encliandra Fuchsia I'll try to post them during my holiday.

Trevor
 
Very nice Trevor :)
Thanks for posting them up (y)
 
Very nice always fancied growing some bonsai but never got round to it. This year I am trying my hand at super hot chillies.
 
Nope quite different but still demand your attention..and nice to grow your own.
 
And yet another 4 weeks goes by.
Where does it go?

After a false start, and realising that I hadn't "cut" deep enough,
(The first cut is the deepest Rod? I don't think so :D)
I re-cut the potential siblings
Back at post 68

Today was the day the Teddy bears had their picnic.
It was time for another look-see.
The most prolific "grower" had died in the last couple of weeks,
I had a feeling I may have cut too deep into that one.
But as it was the first time I had tried anything like this, I wasn't really surprised.

So I opened the "second in command" thinking that would have the most roots.
WRONG!
I was quite disappointed by what I saw TBH, just a couple of hair like roots,
although it was an improvement on the last time.

Un-deterred I decided to take a look at the others.

That's better!


IMG_4909a by Cobra on Talk Photography


However I was surprised to see that the roots had grown from the bark, (on all of them)
not where they are supposed to "by the book"


IMG_4907a by Cobra on Talk Photography


All five produced large enough roots to be potted out.

Even the field maple which I've grown from a stick,
took to Air layering too.


IMG_4910 by Cobra on Talk Photography.

The only failure (so far) and the one that I thought would be the "easiest"
is the Lanlandii (thingy) no roots whatsoever showing.
I've slit the bark, painted on more hormone and giving it another chance,
but after 4 weeks, the top is coming off, anyway and I'll just use the bottom part.

All 5 siblings were liberated from the the parent plant, and potted up in a
nice rich compost.


IMG_4909 by Cobra on Talk Photography

I'll leave them alone now save for watering and the odd feed occasionally to put more roots down.

Sometime next spring, (if they have survived)
I'll check the roots again.
Hopefully they will be dense enough and strong enough to start their training.

Here's a couple of the newly potted potential Bonsai's


IMG_4916 by Cobra on Talk Photography


IMG_4917 by Cobra on Talk Photography


IMG_4913 by Cobra on Talk Photography

And the newly potted field maple off spring


IMG_4912 by Cobra on Talk Photography

Finally, as for the "Sacrificial parent bush" as its been sprouting well,
I decided to trim it right back, and train it into a more up right tree type thing.
And just leave it where it is.
Its earned the right to live :D
 
All in all id call it a success Chris!

The maple looks grand :-)
 
Thanks Ruth,
I'm pleased with the overall result I must admit :)

And nothing there is over 6 inches tall either :)
(thats about 15 Cm's for you yung'uns :) )
 
Blimey a miniature forest in the making, you obviously have green fingers to go with the green skin (y)
 
LOL Thanks Ingrid, its early days yet,
so who knows what'll happen, but so far so good :)
 
Cartus said:
Sorry Cobra but I think your field maple might be a sycamore (or plane if you're in Scotland)!
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Thanks Tim :)
I re potted it and it changed species. How cool is that!

I said I wasn't very good at this didn't I? :D

The adult leaves don't look as pointed as the sycamore,
which made me think it was a maple?
 
Sycamore is a maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, and the field maple, Acer campestre. The latter plant has the benefit of generally smaller leaves and bright yellow autumn colour. All maples have leaves that grow opposite one another on a stem.

Sycamores respond well to leaf cutting about this time of the year, where you cut all the leaves off and just leave the stalk. Very quickly, a well established plant will produce a new set of much smaller leaves.

That concludes Sunday's horticulture lesson!
 
Cartus said:
Sycamore is a maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, and the field maple, Acer campestre. The latter plant has the benefit of generally smaller leaves and bright yellow autumn colour. All maples have leaves that grow opposite one another on a stem.

Sycamores respond well to leaf cutting about this time of the year, where you cut all the leaves off and just leave the stalk. Very quickly, a well established plant will produce a new set of much smaller leaves.

That concludes Sunday's horticulture lesson!
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Duly printed and filed!
 
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