Unkillable Something....

[MJL]

Hey folks - any thoughts? I should know - it is in my garden! It’s in a no longer used fruit/veg patch but for the life on me I cannot think what it may be .... it could have self-seeded too. I have no clue.

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Here’s a close up of a branch in removed a month ago.

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I cut it back to nothing - zippo green stuff - one month ago. The trunk is a fist and a half wide

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Vigorous growth now.

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Should I dig it out and try and Bonsai it? My feeling is leaf is too big.... and it’s grows like a weed thing!


Bonsai teaches me patience.

[MJL]

Also - just a quick note. For some reason, posting photos from my phone using Tapatalk has become tricky in the past few weeks. Probably some software update bug ... it means that sometimes the photos are not in order or it says a photo has been deleted - which they have not. Strange - my apologies - I'll try to use the laptop if Tapatalk remains weird. Cheers, in advance for any help with the species ID above.

[Watto]

I'm going to have a guess at peach or nectarine?

[Kieranrulz]

Give it a go. What you got to loose? Worst case it doesn’t work and you learn and teach. Don’t see why it wouldn’t though. I’m with Watto on I’d only because I wouldn’t know and he would lol

[melbrackstone]

looks like a peach to me...

[si90]

If It's a peach or nectarine it may be worth making into a bonsai for the blossums during leafless phase. They can be pretty amazing. Have you noticed any flowering on it yet?

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[MJL]

If It's a peach or nectarine it may be worth making into a bonsai for the blossums during leafless phase. They can be pretty amazing. Have you noticed any flowering on it yet?

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This is the strange thing with the current ID’s - and thanks everyone for helping. In truth, I have never noticed blossom on it and I certainly never purchased a peach or nectarine. I honestly cannot remember when I first noticed it growing - I thought it might have been a chilli that I planted but I think they die off in our climate down here. In the last few years I have always cut it back because it’s so vigorous.... maybe I’ve never given it a chance to flower or fruit. This year, when I cut it back - many of the leaves were mal-formed - all crinkled up; I was not sure if it was disease or pest but I cut it right back to bare wood; thinking I might kill it! Ah, no - it just loves the haircut. Hmmm... I might dig it out next weekend. As a number have said, I’ve got nothing to lose!


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[KIRKY]

If you want to keep it you should dig it out next winter when it is deciduous. The leaves being distorted is curly leaf a fungal problem with stone fruits like peaches, nectarines, not sure possibly almonds?
So dig it out come winter and spray for curly leaf.
Cheers
Kirky

[si90]

I don't know how long it has been growing in your garden but apparently they can take 2 to 4 years till they flower and fruit. They will also onpy fruit on branches that are a year or more old. So perhaps it is too youn or has been cut back too frequently to have seen flowers or fruit.


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[MJL]

Kirky, si90 and all. Cheers. Next winter it is and I’ll spray for fungal disease too. You’re all ace.


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[KIRKY]

You spray the tree before leaf bud next year. After digging it up.
Cheers
Kirky

[PWC]

how is this one going? if it is a peach or nectarine it should just about lost it's leaves by now.

[Matt S]

Hey MJL,

This is the first time I've seen this thread and I may be crazy but it looks like a basket or crack willow. They are ridiculously easy to grow from a cutting and it would only take a small piece to take root.

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Unless it flowers of course, then I'm way off.

Matt.

[MJL]

Thanks Matt. Mate the thing is feral. Grows at such a pace. Not sure how I’d bonsai it. I think you might be spot on with what you’ve identified. If I can get it out, I might just bang it in a foam grow box and see what happens.

Talking about feral, Melbourne’s weather this morning. Rain, hail wind.... freezing.




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[anttal63]

I'm going to have a guess at peach or nectarine?

I agree in which case you would be cultivating as a blossom bonsai. I would leave it in the ground and develop size and trunk line. Could make a great blossom shohin also!