As I said when you first posted this tree... I knew it was going to be a ripper. You have not disappointed us.
To me, this tree appears to be styled very much like how a Snowgum grows in the wild. Beautiful
Eucalpytus always look really good in round pots so you can kind of go with whatever front you prefer. With more ramification this will be even more stunning in time.
I'm with Melbrackstone, in that I prefer the look of Eucs with the peeling bark left on. From my experiences with Eucs, they are like soldiers with new buds, and the new buds will easily split through the bark, or push it off completely as they come through. You're just being an overprotective parent Sno
For your particular tree, and nearly all Eucs, they always look better on the taller side. Even the smaller mallet Eucs in the wild look nice and elongated. They don't usually take on a squat appearance, so I'd be inclined to keep the tree taller and more natural looking, but thats just my opinion. You do see squat Eucs, but not as often.
Not in regards to this tree, but for Eucs in general, the overall size I keep a Eucalyptus at will usually depend on the foliage size : if its going to be a non-stop battle of trying to reduce the foliage, then I grow the tree much bigger so it is more in proportion. That way you aren't always sickening the tree by constantly cutting back foliage to maintain reduced leaf size.
treeman wrote: ↑December 8th, 2017, 9:39 am
So which ones are the far easier ones Rory? Can you show an example where you have say cut a primary branch say 4 or 5 times and have it ramify 4 or 5 times?
oops... just realized I didn't reply to this.
For me, the purpose of growing a Euc as a bonsai, is to have the bonsai look like a Euc and not to simply grow the Euc as a bonsai because I want a Eucalyptus bonsai.
The two highest recommendations I would give are crebra and nicholii.
I adore the 'scythe' look that you get from a lot of varieties of full grown Euc foliage. So if that is one feature that really attracts you to Eucs, it helps to have material that don't need to be grown large to give off this nice 'scythe' look. The best material I have ever found for this to develop the sycthe without being enormous is E. crebra.
E. nicholii is probably overall one of the greatest Euc to grow. It backbuds well and has small foliage. The foliage isn't strongly scythe looking but its adorable with the short internodes and small foliage. And because of the short internodes its propensity to shoot from a cut branch at the point of the cut is much higher than most Eucs.
For grace and beauty, its hard go past E. melliodora.
The problem with a lot of Eucs is that the foliage grows so long that a lot of people try to constantly reduce the leaf size, and the reduced leaf size ends up looking more like a stubby odd version of the large graceful mature foliage. Its for this reason that I give up on certain Eucs that don't have a nicer look to their reduced foliage size.