You may find that you'll need a chainsaw to separate the trunks.

Regards,

Bart

----- Original Message -----
From: "EESiFlo (North America)"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 11:32 AM
Subject: [IBC] collecting azalea


Thanks again Jim

Wherever possible, it was my intention to make these single trunk plants.

My concern is that I'm being forced to pull out of the ground in a week or
two to make room for new garden plants/trees.

Do you think I can "cut them way, way, way back -- maybe to that single
trunk", dig a nice large root-ball and stick them into 15 gallon pots for
the remainder of the season? Or, I can re-plant them into the ground in
the
back of the yard where they'll get lots of sunshine, Miracid, TLC, etc?

Mark



-----Original Message-----
From: Internet Bonsai Club ] On Behalf
Of
Jim Lewis
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 10:55 AM
To:

I guess Steve's trees where in better growing conditions than
mine because
mine are only 2 feet tall with 1 inch multiple trunks.

Multi-trunk azalea make OK bonsai at best. You'll do better by
selecting one of the trunks and chopping the others -- tho it
will take longer.


During the past winter a number of them suffered from severe
freezing and
most of the leaves are brown and apparently dead. I think this
was a
combination of cold temps and wind. They don't look too
healthy.
I first thought that most of the branches were dead, but near
the ends of
some of them there are one or two leaves with a single flower.


If you dig them this year they won't survive. I'd cut them way,
way, way back -- maybe to that single trunk, mulch the roots --
then give them several doses of Miracid over the summer, mulch
them heavily over the winter and try next year -- assuming you
got growth this summer. If little or nothing happens this
summer, the liklihood of success in digging them up is small, but
so is their overall survival, so you might as well have a go at
it.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
David Thoreau - Walden


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