Chaenomeles japonica. Experiments.

[bodhidharma]

I have always loved the flowering ability of these guys and conducted an experiment a few years ago. I love both the white and the red flowers and proceeded to graft together a white and red trunk to see if i could have them become one. That way i could have something unusual and unique. There was no info on grafting root systems together so i applied logic and cut the stumps with two flat sections and joined them with stainless steel screws. They were then left to do there thing. First couple of years only the red one flowered and i wrote off the experiment as a failure but..lo and behold..the white one burst into life this year. It can stay in the black pot until next year and i will source a pot to compliment the flowering. It will be wired out when the flowers are finished and i will weave the red and white flowers together. The second is an old quince i have had for a while and is pretty this year.

[kcpoole]

How cool
I have heard of this being done with Azaleas too.

Ken

[Laurie J]

How exciting!

[Djs19992]

This is amazing! My quinces have all refused to flower this year


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[Watto]

First day of spring and some beautiful spring flowers, so thankyou. Very interesting as well.

[bodhidharma]

Better flowers this year and they have come out together again. A very successful experiment. Now to start developing it and intertwining the branches so i have red and white flowers evenly over the tree. I will have to mark them somehow and then wire the strategically.

[Firecat]

This is amazing! My quinces have all refused to flower this year


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I'm thinking Djs that this may be a normal cycle for Red Quince.
I have a couple of big jobs in the front yard and zero flowers last year.
Only a few the year before and thinking back good abundances the year before that.
But this year it is just a mass on just about every inner branch..and the outer shell of leafy branches have none.
My larger potted trees have no flowers but I go a pair of lighter pink from of my smaller
trees and it's twin got zilch.
Incidentally all trees pictured are from the big girl in the front yard...temperamental they are.
The 3 shots of my smaller trees show fat trunks.. This was achieved with help of grubs.
'Yes grubs'. I was looking for a clump to dig out and spotted a pair of thin branches that had what i thought were galls.
Turns out that the branches had in fact been ring backed by a fat grub that was still munching away for who knows how long.
It got squished but the branches had swelled a callous.
Hm I'm thinking I'd just airlay it..Got all the gear ready and 'snap'.. The 10mm ring back was dead wood.. to cut a story I snapped off the other..flat based them and added a bit of hormone and into a pot..from 15 to 30mm nabari in a year.

Steve.

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