[Neli] Pomegranate nana2

[Neli]

• Species name Pomegranate nana
• Original height of stock 65cm
• Where you obtained it from: Dug a big clamp from the garden and removed this trunk
• Cost of stock= free grown by me from cutting
I trimmed it after planting to reduce the foliage mass in order not to overburden the few roots it has. I dug it out two weeks ago.It is part of the same clamp as pomegranate nana1

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[Neli]

It is rooted and doing well. Trunk chop in spring.

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[Neli]

Not much progress.

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[Beano]

Mine's not doing anything... I don't know if its a nana, but its had the same bloody buds making pom-poms on the trunks for over a month now. Send out a branch for goodness sake!

[Neli]

Pomegranate nana is the slowest shrub to thicken a trunk on. This was a part of multi stem shrub that is over 20 years old. I Have finally realized that it has no apical dominance but basal dominance. Why do I think that? First of all it has the tendency to branch from the bottom, and gives suckers becoming multistem. I have chopped many trunks, that are old. Unless you leave growth like juniper the trunk dies and shoots from the bottom. Some never shoot any where, but just die. I want to try now air layering the long trunks, and see if then they will shoot higher on the trunk, since there will still be branches on top producing auxin. I have chopped many....and the result was consistent. But if a cutting is planted, it shoots from the top even if it is an old one. That makes me to think that it has to do more with the ratio between auxin and citoxin, that generally governs all functions of a plant.

[Beano]

Mines only a little tiny "bonsai", but already I love the roots. If it would do anything, I want it to be a broom and I would clip and grow. Because of all that, it's already in a bonsai pot.

[Neli]

Yes roots on PN form natural nebari, always grow radial and on the surface. It will thicken very slowly in bonsai pot. Plant it in the ground. They are easy to transplant.

[Neli]

I am scared to trunk chop it. It will not get shoots on top. So decided to airlayer it and see if I will get some shoots under the airlayer.

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[Neli]

Removed the airlayer...but not much pogress. At least it got a tiny shoot on top....which is a surprise. I think the airlayer helped.