AusBonsai

Shame on You! You are going to make me go look for liquidambar tree now...I want some autumn color...and yours looks cute.

Neli wrote:Shame on You! You are going to make me go look for liquidambar tree now...I want some autumn color...and yours looks cute.

Sorry Neli

Ken

Hi Ken, how is your liquidambar doing this spring?
It was a pleasure meeting you at Ray's nursery a few weeks back.
Eddie

It is looking real nice, am out today but will see if I can get PIC tomorrow

Ken

Ok Thanks 43C and your going out? Bring along the portable aircon

EdwardH wrote:Ok Thanks 43C and your going out? Bring along the portable aircon

It was 42 deg on the bike coming home @ 4 pm so probably hotter than that. (twas the hottest November day on records @ Windsor. it Was 45.3 and I would have been close to that ( within a degree or 2)
My Display trees are in full sun all day but as they are in Diatomite, they should be fine

Ken

Trimmed all the larger leaves again last week and tip pruned.

I am Taking to School tomorrow night for "Display night", and it is looking nice

Ken

It's looking good. What are its dimensions?

EdwardH wrote:It's looking good. What are its dimensions?

400mm from soil to apex, 300mm across the widest foliage section.
Pot is 220 mm x 140mm

Ken

Checking out my trees this morning and the colour on this one is very nice this year and so far has not dropped all its leaves.
it it supposed to rain for a few days so this might be as good as it gets

Enjoy
Ken

took this little fella to school last week for a trim.
I have only defoliated once this year, and the leaves have stayed pretty small. It has been a fairly mild summer here and the leaves have not been burnt at all, but I defolitated and trimmed back the branches to force back budding anyway.
I hope that I will get a new full crop of leaves before autumn as this colours up really well for me.

Ken

Not hijacking a post...Just a pic of my twin trunk LA
3rd defoliation this summer with bigger leaves pinched out.

Re Steve.

Mine was like that last year, but i did not repot last winter so can only put it down to that
I also took out the terminalbuds before they opened in spring.

This year it has behaved nicely

Ken

I have a nice little one bought from local nursery here, I chopped it quite short to a nice bend and a couple of branches, it has budded profusely from everywhere except the top where I was hoping for a new leader to emerge.

I defoliated back in around December and it has gone crazy since, I have left it grow with all large leaves to thicken some branches up.

There is one branch I might be able to bend upwards but It might be a bit convoluted, any tips for promoting some budding from the top?

MacGuyver wrote:any tips for promoting some budding from the top?

no secret, they just shoot everywhere on mine, I am always rubbing them off.
maybe try and nick the bark with a knife to try and promote one near the wound

Ken