AusBonsai

a few days ago, in a burst of energetic well feeling, I used the mattock to heave out some chinese elms that I grew from seed approx 3 yrs ago, and planted in the ground, Due to my illness etc, I decided to clear them (plus the fact that spraying them repeatedly with roundup only made them thrive) I dug 4 out, one, when i was looking at it, I thought, hmm there is a nice little trunk... didn't have a massive root spread like most of the others either... but by this time I felt pretty sick, so left it on the fire pile... yesterday, I felt better and came across it... and thought, what the heck... (hubby was chasing me to go take it easy..) so I grabbed it, a cup of tea, and a little pot... I massively hacked at the roots, but did leave some feeders etc in close the trunk, but would mainly now classify this a a cutting I guess. I smeared some rooting hormone on the ends of the cuts, and stuck it in the pot (tiny pot) I'll try to take a photo of the end result later... I similarly hacked back the top... no finesse at this stage, but a leader was left showing buds...

any suggestions of how long it will take to declare this a surviver?

You will know within the month Paddles. But you can have every right to feel confident. Piccy would be nice and dont forget to give it a seasol bath.

gday paddles

mate as bodhi said, you will know soon! but dont stress as it will shoot no prob, it looks like the buds are swellling somewhat now from what I can see

you might need to carve a little as there is some minor reverse taper but that would be from the ground growing and all the branching from above that point. this should make a nice little broom