AusBonsai

Yeah I got a little crazy with the dremel a while back, carved a hollow where the old eye poke branch was. The edges are healing well, should look all right with time. Not sure what type of crepe it is, but pretty much all my crepes except 2 tolerate any abuse I give them. I know one of the two slow ones is a hybrid with white flowers (mildew resistant), so maybe that's why it's a bit slow. It's too skinny so I'm working on fattening it for the time being.

yes nice little trunk, not many are ready to chop back so hard

Well you've picked the direction to go in. it should come up well with some fertilizer and lots of tip pruning.

Love this tree! Just keeps growing stuff where I want it to.



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Arghh! The right side lower branch died back to the trunk. Darn it!

Beano wrote:Arghh! The right side lower branch died back to the trunk. Darn it!

I have that happen on some of mine that are small like this one

So far all good this winter but still dormant at the moment so cannot be sure.

Ken

Nice little tree there. I love the smooth bark the get when they age a little more.

Bit sad about the branch dying but with time it should look ok. It's happily shooting again.

Repot this week. I finally found the base, it was so pot bound when I bought it it's taken two years to find where the roots actually start, as they had started growing upwards around the trunk when I bought it.