AusBonsai

Here something you lot should be doing as well.

Let the top grow out to encourage trunk thickness. This is sprouting a metre high above the normal apex of the tree. The tree is quite a large specimen with the lower trunk as thick as my leg. This has been achieved in 10 years from a small root cutting.

I should add that I haven't got much in the way of growing projects thesedays.

I have gone from owning and growing several hundred bonsai down to 12 of my best trees.

That is so cool, thanks for that Brian, appreciate your input.

Was just reviewing the posts on page 11 when I noticed an error. Sorry, must have been to much of that Diet Coke I think. The tree in the first pic, which I identified as Glomerata is actually Ficus umbellata 'australis', not that it makes much difference I guess.

I just put two of last year's Port Jackson cuttings into colanders applying this method. Here's hoping for some good summer growth.

For those wondering (if there are any ) I was going to do an update of this thread this weekend, but I had a cancer cut out of my arm during the week, so am unable to lift heavy weights ( ). Stitches out in around 10 days, so will update after that.

Wow cool thread! Graeme I am glad your stitches are out and you are about again. I hope you have apermanent recovery. I am in the U. S. guys. I would really like to know . What is a chook ?¿ And where can I get one. Lol. I want to try this method. I have trees in foam boxes. But i fed them pond water Compost Tea. And they grew like it like weeds. I haven't fone the tea for a while. But I want to do a bigger setup in a heavy duty plastic 55 gallon garbage can . I plan on making a thread to show everyone. Has anyone tried pond water?

SpongeMann wrote: I would really like to know . What is a chook ?¿ And where can I get one. Lol.

A chook is a Chicken. What the heck do you guys call them
I though everyone called 'em chooks!

Ken

kcpoole wrote:

SpongeMann wrote: I would really like to know . What is a chook ?¿ And where can I get one. Lol.

A chook is a Chicken. What the heck do you guys call them
I though everyone called 'em chooks!

Ken

We just call them chickens, Ken. I looked that one up myself a while back.

I am going to call em chooks from now on! It has a good ring to it. But yeah we just call em chickens.Here in the U.S. In my home island of Puerto Rico we call them gallinas. Pronounced(gayinass) .

Learn somthing new every day!
I figured that Americans shorten just about every work in the english, that Chooks must be a given

Ken

Lol, we do shorten just about every word. Or we make a slang word for it. Have a good one Ken

Is there any update for those that were experimenting with the fast grow method?