Kunzea questions
Posted: May 20th, 2020, 1:19 pm
Hello all.
I ache some questions regarding my couple of Kunzea out the back waiting for some care. They are each 4 years old as grown from seed and left since not being looked after. I have 3 bush tick Kunzea ambigua and a scarlet Kunzea Baxter (this is the one that wants to look like a literati unintentionally). I have read up all over and got some info that doesn't seem to be the same.
Back budding. some places say that the ambigua does and doesn't back bud. I have some that are coming up on old wood but unsure if I should cut right down to those which may or may not set. Whereas any baxteri should be able to do this but isn't. bring a newby this is awfully confusing. I need some movement in the trunks but am loathe to touch them.
the Baxteri is going well with the tall trunk and puff at the top of green. i am not sure what to do with this one. I could leave it alone and literati it as that is what it seems to want to do. If i cut the crown though will it force growth or just keep what it has and sprout from way up there? the ticks are growing all over the place.
First one looks like it could have everything taken off it except the growth below the heel of the branch? Just cut off the dead stuff and reduce the amount of living stuff? This i am assuming is ok but should be cut at the heel where the other shoots are coming from, leave the right but trim it by half. or take the right part off and leave the small shoot coming from the left and hope the back budding under it grow bigger? Last one (for this post anyway) to be taken off down by the growing shoots under the heel? If i am making these cuttings will they grow as cuttings? if this is the case and they do i should wait until late winter to do the cuts?
Thanks so much for the help and photo bomming but this isheloping me immensely.
Ta P
I ache some questions regarding my couple of Kunzea out the back waiting for some care. They are each 4 years old as grown from seed and left since not being looked after. I have 3 bush tick Kunzea ambigua and a scarlet Kunzea Baxter (this is the one that wants to look like a literati unintentionally). I have read up all over and got some info that doesn't seem to be the same.
Back budding. some places say that the ambigua does and doesn't back bud. I have some that are coming up on old wood but unsure if I should cut right down to those which may or may not set. Whereas any baxteri should be able to do this but isn't. bring a newby this is awfully confusing. I need some movement in the trunks but am loathe to touch them.
the Baxteri is going well with the tall trunk and puff at the top of green. i am not sure what to do with this one. I could leave it alone and literati it as that is what it seems to want to do. If i cut the crown though will it force growth or just keep what it has and sprout from way up there? the ticks are growing all over the place.
First one looks like it could have everything taken off it except the growth below the heel of the branch? Just cut off the dead stuff and reduce the amount of living stuff? This i am assuming is ok but should be cut at the heel where the other shoots are coming from, leave the right but trim it by half. or take the right part off and leave the small shoot coming from the left and hope the back budding under it grow bigger? Last one (for this post anyway) to be taken off down by the growing shoots under the heel? If i am making these cuttings will they grow as cuttings? if this is the case and they do i should wait until late winter to do the cuts?
Thanks so much for the help and photo bomming but this isheloping me immensely.
Ta P