Clerodendrum - fixing a nasty reverse taper

[bingh]

Jamie

Will post a new photo soon. Those pics are highly compressed. It should show better detail

Brian

[Chris H]

Brian
Was the smaller tree a cutting of the larger?
I am thinking of doing this with a Chinese Elm but worried that the "corky bark" wont blend

[Jamie]

hartos,

from my understanding of the grafting process once taken it grows as one tree and being a corky bark would help blend this, as long as the tree used to graft with is of the same type. if you could get a cutting to strike, which shouldnt be a problem with elm, then it will blend it very well and once the corkiness of the mark starts to build up you wouldnt even see where the graft was


jamie

[anttal63]

Wow bingh you da man. A great tree there and great work! thanks much for sharing it with us.

[bingh]

Hartos

I don't know for sure if it was a cutting from the main tree but it has the same DNA as I propagated hundreds from several generations all of which came from the original tiny cutting. Providing trees are of the same species grafting if done correctly should take

Brian

[kcpoole]

Well done Brian
I am doing the exact same thing on Procumbens Juniper. The scion I am using is a cutting of the original tree, and has been on now for nearly 2 years and is only now just looking like it going to take and work

Ken

[bingh]

Pruned today

Brian

[bingh]

Closeup

[Rod]

Gidday Brian, good posts on your tree. It was good to be part of all that in those days, some great memories. Hope you're not reattaching to the tree - it's ok to let go, Brian, it's going to a good home!

Maybe you could share a photo of your big privet, it was a brilliant tree with a natural look. Loved it!

Cheers Rod

[bingh]

G'day mate

Hope all is well. They were great days. Shannon rang yesterday - coming for a visit.

Will find a pic of the big privet and post it

Stay loose

Brian

[Shannon]

Great progression Brian very informative.......I Would also love to see some pic's from the good days in Bundy (15-20 odd years ago).
We were a pretty advanced group for a country town.

Glad to see your sharing your wealth of knowledge on Bonsai.

Looking forward to seeing you soon

Cheers.

[bingh]

Thanks mate

I am sure that I can dig up some of the old history.
I just found a photo of the clero in the ground. This was to be the front but became the back, Note the scars from cutting off trunks and branches. When ground growing you should leave all trunks and branches if you want to bulk up the base of the trunk then cut them off when you reduce the height thus gaining great taper

Brian

[bingh]

An earlier photo

Brian

[Shannon]

They are brilliant tree's for bonsai.

[Jamie]

nice tree brian! i can see how to get the ramification on them now

it shouldnt be to long for the couple i have

cheers!

jamie