AusBonsai

I bought a medium size red flowering quince sometime this year. I trimmed it down and used the branches for cuttings. The cuttings has been in the soil for about 3 months and dropped all the leaves. I didn't see any new growth until last week. The interesting thing is the new growths are some leaves with a lot of flower buds. The weird thing is the mother plant is still in full leaves and has no sign of flowering.

Should I leave the flowering buds (they look nice ) or should I remove them to reserve the energy for the cutting? I noticed that there are a lot of roots going down the bottom of the pots.

i would remove the flowering buds before they even got that big DK, the quicker you get those ones off the less energy is wasted

I would remove the buds too
No need for them

Ken

Chaenomeles, take ages to thicken, if your cuttings have already made roots I would enjoy the flowers taking them off is not going to have a huge impact on the plants.
Craig

kcpoole wrote:I would remove the buds too
No need for them

Ken

it would send energy back to root growth.
Remember you wont get a great deal of thickness and its really the best thing about these. They look their best in clump form being their native habit, with very fine ramifacation.