Choubai

[KIRKY]

Very nice Mike. I prefer the new pot
Cheers
Kirky

[bodhidharma]

I would love to see a front shot of the setting Mike, I am building one at the moment and am scratching my head design wise.

[treeman]

I would love to see a front shot of the setting Mike, I am building one at the moment and am scratching my head design wise.

Check out the first pic on page one Bodhi. All I can suggest is plant very close together and not worry about design. They design themselves after a while by sending up suckers here and there in unexpected places. If you don't like where they are you can cut them off or move them with some wire at the next repot.

[KIRKY]

Mike, is this just one plant over the years or a group/raft that you have developed?
Cheers
Kirky

[treeman]

Mike, is this just one plant over the years or a group/raft that you have developed?
Cheers
Kirky

It's all in post #1. After it was made, all you could see was a pot with some dirt in it.

[KIRKY]

Thanks Mike, I should have reread the post before asking
Cheers
Kirky

[bodhidharma]

Check out the first pic on page one Bodhi.

Hi Mike, i did but since the repot ,and a year has elapsed, i thought there might have been changes to take into account and i wanted to see the difference the new pot had made. Love the flower colour.

[Boics]

Queue stupid question..

Where do I find a rhyzome on my little tree?
Save me looking back through the thread - best time to re-pot?

[Matthew]

Nice Mike. these are great trees for clump style and some of the examples in Japan are mind blowing . Yours is coming along well. I know these are slow

[Mbunro]

Does anyone know if the same effect can be created in the same way using other Flowering quince cultivar?
Im sure if i had a propper look i could find a chojubai, but so far have only seen other varieties

[treeman]

Queue stupid question..

Where do I find a rhyzome on my little tree?
Save me looking back through the thread - best time to re-pot?

After a few years of free growth the plants start to send up suckers horizontally and then they emerge as new shoots away from the mother plant. These suckers can be cut into pieces for propagation. Same with roots of say about matchstick thickness.

@Mbunrow, yes you can use any flowering quince.

[KIRKY]

Mike, I read somewhere that suckers should be removed because leaving them may kill the adult plant. Do you remove the suckers and then replant them? Or cut through the base and leave them in place?
Cheers
Kirky

[treeman]

Mike, I read somewhere that suckers should be removed because leaving them may kill the adult plant. Do you remove the suckers and then replant them? Or cut through the base and leave them in place?
Cheers
Kirky

That's very true Kirky. Too many coming up weakens the older parts tremendously so they should be controlled by pruning them to a couple of buds if you want to keep them and just allowing one or 2 new ones each year.

[shibui]

I've been trying to grow some as single trunk trees but they don't want to play that game - lots of suckers every year
I guess I'll just have to go with the natural growth habit and let them develop into clumps.
The orange flowers are spectacular, especially on bare stems and small enough to be in proportion to small sized bonsai.

[Sno]

Hi Mike . Beautiful clump . I like it in both pots . That blue is an amazing color .
Are there benefits to using the rhizome cuttings rather than stem cuttings ?
Cheers Craig