Can anyone ( Pup maybe ) reccomend some Melelucas to start.

[Pup]

Melaleuca Linariifolia is my favourite. Got to be careful to keep up the water to them though. They can dry out very easily. They don't like the sun much either. A little burning can take out more foliage than you would expect.

I have never had that trouble with linarifolia, I have with parviflora though, water that is, never burning of the foliage.

Cheers Pup

My personal experience is of one tree totally dying from one day of too much sun, and the most recent one i have got a little bit of burn and i lost about 2 inches of foliage, when i would only have expected to loose the leaves that got burnt. I make sure now to keep it out of the sun and it seems happy enough. To me it seems that any over sunning makes it go into shock. The trees came from two different nurseries, so i don't think its the medium.

G,day Krusty that is strange. As mine sits it the sun all year one of the few trees I have, that do. When we get to December here temps are usually in the high 30s, so I put up 25% shade cloth. This one along with, a couple of rhaphiophyllas a cuticularis and a callistemon and a Calitris sit in full sun all year. Never had leaf or needle burn.
As i have stated mine never sit in water trays either. They sit on trays of gravel that have water in them, they sit on the gravel. I have 15 different varieties of Melaleuca growing like this.Even the Mame, and Shohin. Never suffered sun burn, have suffered needle wilt, when I forgot to water on a 45% day as we were away, and the sprinkler blocked up. Perked up as soon as they got drenched.
Cheers Pup

[Glenda]

Mine sat in Nth Qld sun happily all summer, and are healthy except they are getting a bit leggy. Pup has put me on the right track to rectify that. In our hot humid weather I water twice daily, now only once daily.

Glenda

[Krusty]

Melaleuca Linariifolia is my favourite. Got to be careful to keep up the water to them though. They can dry out very easily. They don't like the sun much either. A little burning can take out more foliage than you would expect.

I have never had that trouble with linarifolia, I have with parviflora though, water that is, never burning of the foliage.

Cheers Pup

My personal experience is of one tree totally dying from one day of too much sun, and the most recent one i have got a little bit of burn and i lost about 2 inches of foliage, when i would only have expected to loose the leaves that got burnt. I make sure now to keep it out of the sun and it seems happy enough. To me it seems that any over sunning makes it go into shock. The trees came from two different nurseries, so i don't think its the medium.

G,day Krusty that is strange. As mine sits it the sun all year one of the few trees I have, that do. When we get to December here temps are usually in the high 30s, so I put up 25% shade cloth. This one along with, a couple of rhaphiophyllas a cuticularis and a callistemon and a Calitris sit in full sun all year. Never had leaf or needle burn.
As i have stated mine never sit in water trays either. They sit on trays of gravel that have water in them, they sit on the gravel. I have 15 different varieties of Melaleuca growing like this.Even the Mame, and Shohin. Never suffered sun burn, have suffered needle wilt, when I forgot to water on a 45% day as we were away, and the sprinkler blocked up. Perked up as soon as they got drenched.
Cheers Pup

Yeah im not sure what it is. The linarifolia is one of the most sooky trees i own. The only think i can think of is that they are acclimatised to the Melbourne weather. My trees just sit on a wood plank. No shade cloth though. Will be putting up shade cloth soon as i found last summer to be a killer for looking after my trees. If i remember tomorrow, i can show you a photo of the burn on my latest tree.

[Greth]

Oh, gosh, Pup, you can see how we need your Melaleuca book. And I can see how much you need my spelling, hahaha.
Not hassling you, your decision is final and I respect it, just having a little tease, forgive me.

[Pup]

Oh, gosh, Pup, you can see how we need your Melaleuca book. And I can see how much you need my spelling, hahaha.
Not hassling you, your decision is final and I respect it, just having a little tease, forgive me.

Yea two lls and an I close together willl get you every time, As for the notes well never say never but, I do have issues to sort out.

Now what was I doing oh yea I was going to the toot, too late

[craigw60]

I lived in footscray for many years and had a north facing back yard. I grew linarifolia there in full sun all day and never got a burnt leaf. I think this species make wonderful bonsai
Craig

[Pup]

I lived in footscray for many years and had a north facing back yard. I grew linarifolia there in full sun all day and never got a burnt leaf. I think this species make wonderful bonsai
Craig

There ya go Krusty, what I think you may have, is a soil mix problem, or even some long standing root problems. I have found them to be one of the easier of the Melaleucas I grow. Try the dunk method to see if the roots are getting proper watering. When you get leaf or needle burn it is usually some thing in the soil not staying moist enough. Like Maples you add sphagnum to the mix or sit on top.

Cheers Pup