Potentially awesome Azalea

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Potentially awesome Azalea

Post by NakMuay »

I picked up this Azalea at Bunnings on the weekend. I've been looking at alot of different nurseries lately for an Azalea with potential and have come up with nothing until i found this one.
What does everyone else think?
Hopefuly i'm not the only one that thinks this will look great.
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Great pick mate. This has good movement in the trunk and should come up a real winner with some training. Congrats :tu:
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Post by leamos »

Looks great, I'm always on the look out for new stock whenever i'm in bunnings or a nursery too, symptom of being bitten by the bonsai bug. Given a few seasons in a grow box for that trunk with thicken up and this will look awesome, nice choice
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do you know the variety?
definitely stick it in the ground or a box for a few years.
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Its an Indica flowering prince
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Post by Glaucus »

With similar shaped azalea I have pinched out the growth tips on the competing trunks so they stop growing from that trunk and help the main trunk get fatter instead.

I don't know if this actually works, but it has a lot of logic behind it.
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