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[IBC] Tropical Questions
Unbeknownst to me, I volunteered to do a presentation
of some sort to my bonsai club in June concerning Tropical Bonsai, from which I know nothing. I have ten green fingers and toes outside the house, but pretty brown fingers inside the house, so I have been looking around to see what’s available. Here are some of my discoveries, comments, help suggestions welcomed. 1) The fragile Grewia I bought on impulse is being used as a landscape plant at the YMCA near my work 2) I always thought bougies were little sticks out here, but saw several 15’ high with 4” trunks growing outside. So… besides the Grewia I now have a coffee tree with a marvelous trunk, a 40% off scraggly bougie, a shefflera, and a money tree. The coffee, shefflera, and money tree are on the dining room table, getting misted and getting filtered southwest exposure. I want my bougie to be fatter. It is in a 2 gal pot, not pot bound, semi defoliated. Our cold rains have started, but might not hold. I have this one on the front porch under an overhang with the cymbidiums. Should I pot it up now and start feeding? Wait till spring? Pruning? The grewia will go into the lean to green house or porch in December. It feels newly potted in a 1 gal can. It has no taper, could be fatter, suggestions? The pachera (?) money tree is a multiple trunk in a 6” pot. I asked advice about this plant before with no response. Is anyone working with these? All advice on or off line appreciated. Kitsune Miko ===== **** "Expectations are resentments under construction." Anne Lamott ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by Boon Manakitivipart++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
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It has no taper, could be fatter, suggestions?
The Grewia will probably never have any more taper than it does now. I believe you are in Zone 9, and I don't think Grewia is frost hardy. You might get the trunk to thicken a little by growing it in the ground in a frost-free location, or putting it in as big a training pot as you can carry. With Grewia, what you see is pretty much what you get. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra |
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It has no taper, could be fatter, suggestions?
The Grewia will probably never have any more taper than it does now. I believe you are in Zone 9, and I don't think Grewia is frost hardy. You might get the trunk to thicken a little by growing it in the ground in a frost-free location, or putting it in as big a training pot as you can carry. With Grewia, what you see is pretty much what you get. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra |
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