Eucalyptus camaldulensis - progression
Posted: January 9th, 2020, 4:37 pm
River Red Gums are my favourite tree and I've been enjoying the number of examples that have popped up recently on ausbonsai, so I thought I should capture the progress on one of my starters before it gets too advanced.
This tree was grown from seed collected about 12 months ago from a huge tree in a local park that dropped a massive branch. My daughter and I scoured the branch (that was as thick as my waist) and found a few seed capsules that were ready to go. A handful of seedlings resulted and I kept only 2 of the strongest.
The seedling was transferred to the current black pot and left to grow, and I chopped all the major branches (bar one) about 3 weeks ago.
Not much to see so far but the intention is for a tall slender, asymmetrical tree, something like this hastily-drawn-and-photographed-in-bad-light-sketch:
Matt.
This tree was grown from seed collected about 12 months ago from a huge tree in a local park that dropped a massive branch. My daughter and I scoured the branch (that was as thick as my waist) and found a few seed capsules that were ready to go. A handful of seedlings resulted and I kept only 2 of the strongest.
The seedling was transferred to the current black pot and left to grow, and I chopped all the major branches (bar one) about 3 weeks ago.
Not much to see so far but the intention is for a tall slender, asymmetrical tree, something like this hastily-drawn-and-photographed-in-bad-light-sketch:
Matt.