That's the one just send us some bloody rain will ya.Paul W wrote:Hey Mr Pup is that the Searles Flourish for Native Plants 16N 0.5P 20K that we have over here in the east where it rains too much.
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Thanks for that Mr Pup,and while you are in the mood for answering my stupid questions ,it has got quite cold over here in the last few days and I am getting quite a lot of leaf drop but overall the calli looks healthy enough,do they leaf drop for that or any other reason .would appreciate your thoughts from your vast knowledge.Pup wrote:That's the one just send us some bloody rain will ya.Paul W wrote:Hey Mr Pup is that the Searles Flourish for Native Plants 16N 0.5P 20K that we have over here in the east where it rains too much.
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Most tree have natural attrition unless it is like Autumn drop not to worry .Paul W wrote:Thanks for that Mr Pup,and while you are in the mood for answering my stupid questions ,it has got quite cold over here in the last few days and I am getting quite a lot of leaf drop but overall the calli looks healthy enough,do they leaf drop for that or any other reason .would appreciate your thoughts from your vast knowledge.Pup wrote:That's the one just send us some bloody rain will ya.Paul W wrote:Hey Mr Pup is that the Searles Flourish for Native Plants 16N 0.5P 20K that we have over here in the east where it rains too much.
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[/quote]Most tree have natural attrition unless it is like Autumn drop not to worry .[/quote]
Thanks Mr Pup, is Autumn leaf drop fairly heavy as it was quite noticeable for about 2 days but seems to have stopped now.
I hope the loss of your mate is getting easier for you and the missus as the days go on.
Thanks Mr Pup, is Autumn leaf drop fairly heavy as it was quite noticeable for about 2 days but seems to have stopped now.
I hope the loss of your mate is getting easier for you and the missus as the days go on.
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Most tree have natural attrition unless it is like Autumn drop not to worry .[/quote]Paul W wrote:
Thanks Mr Pup, is Autumn leaf drop fairly heavy as it was quite noticeable for about 2 days but seems to have stopped now.
I hope the loss of your mate is getting easier for you and the missus as the days go on.[/quote]
Going by what you have said there is nothing to worry about. Just keep an eye on it.
As for it getting easier, just so many things remind you, but it does as I can now talk without getting teary.
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Re: Bottle Brush Pruning
Will a bottlebrush grow new growth if cut off low on the trunk?
I have dug up a bottle brush which is being systematically destroyed by council workers. the first fork and branch are easily 2 foot high. How low can I cut it and get growth?
I have dug up a bottle brush which is being systematically destroyed by council workers. the first fork and branch are easily 2 foot high. How low can I cut it and get growth?
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As low as you like. they will shoot from bare timber with no issue
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Hi Back-Bud,
Botanists regard Melaleucas and Callistemons as very close, and there is some discussion about possibly combining them as the one genus one day. Bonsai growers tend to treat them much the same. That said, Pup has posts about some WA Mels that do not shoot from bare wood - he cuts back to the last few leaves, waits for the back buds, and keeps reducing by steps. Test out carefully, unless it's a species that's been shown on this site to bud on bare wood.
Which does raise the question - which Melaleucas and Callistemons are you growing as bonsai in Sweden? I knew some Eucalypts and Acacias have become weeds in Africa and America, but I did not realise that peaceful Scandinavia had been invaded by busloads of beer-drinking Bottlebrushes...
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Botanists regard Melaleucas and Callistemons as very close, and there is some discussion about possibly combining them as the one genus one day. Bonsai growers tend to treat them much the same. That said, Pup has posts about some WA Mels that do not shoot from bare wood - he cuts back to the last few leaves, waits for the back buds, and keeps reducing by steps. Test out carefully, unless it's a species that's been shown on this site to bud on bare wood.
Which does raise the question - which Melaleucas and Callistemons are you growing as bonsai in Sweden? I knew some Eucalypts and Acacias have become weeds in Africa and America, but I did not realise that peaceful Scandinavia had been invaded by busloads of beer-drinking Bottlebrushes...
Regards,
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Ho-ho! Hello Gavin.
Thanks heaps for the info! I'll have a look at Pup's posts to get further insight. Right, the question of which Melaleucas I am growing. I took a handful of seed pods from a single bush in Turkey, summer 2014. They're growing – lots of them - and have started to lignify this year. I plan on binding them round a thick length of deadwood next summer and see if they might eventually cover the whole thing. It'll be an indoor bonsai, only left out for a free-range run during the warm season. But “which one?” - if I can figure out how to post photos I'll put up a couple of the parent bush. Perhaps from those it can be determined?
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Thanks heaps for the info! I'll have a look at Pup's posts to get further insight. Right, the question of which Melaleucas I am growing. I took a handful of seed pods from a single bush in Turkey, summer 2014. They're growing – lots of them - and have started to lignify this year. I plan on binding them round a thick length of deadwood next summer and see if they might eventually cover the whole thing. It'll be an indoor bonsai, only left out for a free-range run during the warm season. But “which one?” - if I can figure out how to post photos I'll put up a couple of the parent bush. Perhaps from those it can be determined?
Regards,
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Looks like Callistemon vitalis.
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On closer inspection I'll have to say that you must be rightdansai wrote:Looks like Callistemon vitalis.
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Correction viminalis not vitalis
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If you read this post it will show this tree when it was put down as a cutting and this is it today
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Great read (again).
Great read (again).
One of the fabulous things about growing bonsai is as you get old and decrepit your trees get old and beautiful