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Now everything I have read says that they won't flower in a pot. This is a growing on project that has been neglected. I have another one that has not flowered.
Perhaps neglect is the secret ?

Wow. That's a impressive display for a potted Jacarandah and at least it's been proved possible.

I remember someone saying that if you ever got a potted jacaranda to flower, let alone one trained as bonsai, that you would achieve the impossible and gain world wide fame.

Congrats bougy, set up your junk mail filter, because your world famous now

"TO DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM" Nice one Tony and a first here on A.B. So, it can be done and how, neglect could be the missing ingredient.

Tony, do you mind if I ask the age of the tree, my understanding is they don't flower until 5 yrs plus?
Watty

It would be at least 5 yo - I have been cutting it back when I remember but it has been neglected lately. I only fertilised it when I noticed all the buds. Other than the occasional drink of seasol it has just been watered and will be very root bound too

I've recently read that (potted/bonsai) wisterias will only flower when they become root bound. Something about the tree throwing a hissie-fit thinking it's about to die so it changes from growth mode to reproductive mode as a last ditch attempt at immortality. Perhaps the same could apply to (this) Jacaranda?

Wayne

Great thread.
Mine flowered for the first time in 6 years in the same pot last year with 31 flowers. Pruned to 3rd nodes during winter like articles say but this year ----nothing. Fed it up with potassium during spring months too.
Do I repot this next winter or give it another year.? Prune the same or let it well alone.?

I used to give the talks at the Sydney Royal Easter Show around 10 years ago, where I talked about a flowering Jacaranda my father had produced. I remember Dorothy Koreshoff insisting that it wasn't possible, then enjoying the look on her face when she saw the photos. Hasn't flowered very much since then, though - but it was nice while it lasted.

Of course, if you were to try and style and train a Jacaranda in strict Japanese style, it wouldn't be possible. But give it room to grow its roots, plenty of sun and water and allow it to do its own thing - and it should most definitely be possible.

Well done tony.
Nice to see that if left alone they will flower in an pot.

@southernsky has it right that a trained tree will never flower. They only do so on the end of the new seasons growth and as we are continually trimming that off then flowering will not happen.

For a trained Bonsai Jacarandah, here is my thread on it
viewtopic.php?f=129&t=5621

Re Wisteria, I have never heard of then needing to be potbound, and this year were certainly not and they flowered well.

Ken

Alan Peck wrote:Great thread.
Mine flowered for the first time in 6 years in the same pot last year with 31 flowers. Pruned to 3rd nodes during winter like articles say but this year ----nothing. Fed it up with potassium during spring months too.
Do I repot this next winter or give it another year.? Prune the same or let it well alone.?

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Hi Alan,

Nice Wisteria!

They do flower best when pot-bound in a deeper pot and not every year the same - I'd give it another year!

Cheers

First time for mine,potted for quite a few years.

Great to see some jacaranda's flowering. Mine only started to send out new leaves two weeks ago No flowers this year but then it has only flowered once in about ten years.

Very pleased to read all the above!! Iv'e hung on to 2 jacaranda's in pots for about 4 years now and was seriously considering uprooting them and reusing the pots. They are both about 1mt tall with fairly good branch structure and still in the original pots, they leaf up nicely each year, and I prune them back annually, but never any blooms. All your posts have given me hope (and the plants a reprieve)!! One thing I have learnt is that by trimming the leaf fronds back to about half length from the leaf stem, they return finer each time.