AusBonsai

I too have a fascination with all the Brachychitons. Some of the things I've learnt so far . They love the heat, can give them plenty of water during hot times bur in the colder months only need watering once a week (let them dry out) to get ramification you need to cut them back hard continually till it seperates to two shoots then continue same on each shoot. will not produce a shoot at base of leaf unless you cut back to just above. also cut back into the soft moist wood of the base (to the shape you would like and double seal )

Best of luck with your tree

Milo

Current image of the tree. It isn't good as far as bonsai goes haha. I find it interesting though and I figure it will never look like a tree so may as well just go crazy with it.

Lot better than when it started!
So your heading in the right direction.
Keep it up!

It's come leaps and bounds, would love to see it fatten right up in years to come

Love these trees. Not sure how well I'll go making bonsai out of them but currently growing a number from seeds, hope I live long enough to see them mature.

Hard to believe they are closely related to another of my favorite trees, the Illawarra Flame Tree (Brachychiton acerifolius). Have a number of seeds for these in too. I must be a sucker for punishment, I have so many seeds/seedlings for trees that will take 15-20 years to start looking good.

Cheers

Thanks guys. I'll keep working on it

Drac0 wrote:Love these trees. Not sure how well I'll go making bonsai out of them but currently growing a number from seeds, hope I live long enough to see them mature.

Hard to believe they are closely related to another of my favorite trees, the Illawarra Flame Tree (Brachychiton acerifolius). Have a number of seeds for these in too. I must be a sucker for punishment, I have so many seeds/seedlings for trees that will take 15-20 years to start looking good.

Cheers

Yes very cool species. You will be surprised/amazed with the growth rate too I got a sister tree to this at the same time i bought this one to grow large (dream feature tree for first home). It is being power fed in the ground for now at my folks house and is already over 6ft tall and 10ish cm in diameter.

Just wondering if anyone has tried the fusion technique with a bottle tree? I have a number of small seedlings and I just don't have the space to keep them all as single plants once they grow a bit more. Was thinking of using 1 or 2 as individual trees then maybe trying to fuse the others next year. Otherwise I'll just have to sell the rest.....

Cheers