Well, I don't have any fukien tea cascades, but one of the ways that I have
created a cascade is to grow the collected material so that it lies flat.
Foliage is trained with the final position of the tree in mind. Then I tilt
the pot by propping it with a brick to take the tree downwards. Over a
period of time you slowly move the tree closer to the vertical. Eventually
you repot, but tilt the new pot in the opposite direction so that the tree
is at a similar angle to what it was before you repotted. You continue the
tilting process until it is vertical.

voila!

cascade

two caveats.

1. some species don't grow down, when you start to tilt they stop growing at
the end. I think your method might work better here.

2. You usually end up with roots at the top of the cascade that are exposed
and can be unsightly. I'm hoping they'll thicken and look a little more
presentable in the future otherwise, I may have to remove them eventually or
hide them with an apex.


well anyway that how I've done it.

Leslie St. John
Barbados
West Indies


"Per Arne Pedersen" wrote in message
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Hi Billy & all,

You say that you don't grow cascade "that way"...
Can you please tell me a better way to create a cascade? Honestly, I
thought this was the only way (please refer to my first posting for
descriptions).
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