Smarty Pants stump 19 months after

[kvan64]

This smartie was dug and potted in March last year. It hasn't stop flowering since Jan this year.

[Craig]

Kvan, looking quite nice mate, considering when you dug it , great color on the flowers, should make a sweet little bonsai,

[Luke308]

Excuse my ignorance, but what species is that?

[Craig]

Excuse my ignorance, but what species is that?

That would be Bougainvillea

http://www.nationaltropicals.com.au/vir ... rtie-pants

[krittas]

good pick up...looking good mate

What are you using to feed it???

[kvan64]

good pick up...looking good mate

What are you using to feed it???

Chicken pellets mate. Lots of chicken pellets!

And thanks guys for the thumb-ups. It had a lot of swelling and reverse taper when I dug it. Carving didn't solve everything but did improve the looks. I'm trying to build ramification for this guy. Being a boug, this shouldn't be too hard.

[alpineart]

Hi kvan64 , Very nice little Bougy .What are the dimensions of the tree ? , Is Smarty pants a mini boug or a standard variety ? Brissy is the place for growth on these , mine has struggled since i purchased it from up North , just re potted it in Winter into scoria and its taken off getting some growth out of it now and a few flowers as well . Come Winter next year it will get a good carve and re-style onto a rock .I hope to make a trunk on rock combination by carving the out the base and sealing a scoria boulder into the hollowed section that died back as it looks unbalanced .

Cheers Alpineart

[Bougy Fan]

Ian smartie pants is a dwarf thornless variety.

DK did you seal the hollow with anything ?

Tony

[Jamie]

DK,

this is a cracking development in some good time! you should be very proud of yourself with this tree, very impressed my friend

any more plans for future carving?

[Matthew]

Ian mine has also started flowering for the first time since i moved south. in rocky they flower for 9 months of the year! mine goes decidious each winter here losing its leaves and i keep it in the hothouse than. nice smarty by the way. i had one over 500mm across but sold it b4 i left.

[kvan64]

Hi kvan64 , Very nice little Bougy .What are the dimensions of the tree ? , Is Smarty pants a mini boug or a standard variety ? Brissy is the place for growth on these , mine has struggled since i purchased it from up North , just re potted it in Winter into scoria and its taken off getting some growth out of it now and a few flowers as well . Come Winter next year it will get a good carve and re-style onto a rock .I hope to make a trunk on rock combination by carving the out the base and sealing a scoria boulder into the hollowed section that died back as it looks unbalanced .

Cheers Alpineart

Hi Alpineart, Smarty pants is a standard boug variety (I could be wrong). It has very small leaves but trunk can get very huge just like Matthew said. This one is only 28cm (280mm) but I've seen on that has a diameter over half a meter in a bonsai pot. In facts, this is the only variety that has decent hardwood which don't rot easily like others in the family. These like fine sandy soil. I tried them in 5-7mm scoria but they don't seem to like it. They take roots very easily even with thick cuttings so roots over rock will be successful but make sure you use a much bigger rock as the tree will grow very fast and out grow the rock and looks funny. I'll show you a picture later to show what I mean.

DK,

this is a cracking development in some good time! you should be very proud of yourself with this tree, very impressed my friend

any more plans for future carving?

Jamie, I have done extensive carving to this one. Will let it recover and develop more ramification before any more carving to be done on it

DK did you seal the hollow with anything ?

Tony

Tony, I used steri-prune at the time of digging and potting but didn't use anything at the time of carving. The wound heals quite well.

[lachie1998]

thats a cool looking bonsai