Azalea contest 2020-2025

[hinmo24t]

No, I make up my own rules and the rest of you guys play it by the book. I cheat, too. I lie when I have to.

I'm thinking about squeezing this Girard's Pleasant White into the action. I've had it for a few years, but honest, I never touched it...
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I'll post it again in a few days when all the flowers are out. It's a left-over from when I landscaped my house in 2008...
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looks awesome in that pot

 

[Forsoothe!]

It's not really in that pot, it's just a virt to enhance the view. It's really just in an old nursery pot, untouched for years.

 

[Rivka]

Zounds! We can do two? Let me know!

I just pried an unknown cherry red single apart from a Hexe azalea in the landscape out front! It was misplaced in the pot.... this is third time the local nursery sold me an azalea that had two different cultivars planted in the same pot and was advertised as one type. The amount of roots left on the unknown red azalea after the separation were sparse to say the least.... so this lil guy may be on the edge all summer. It wont be the first time!

In any event I took a number of cuttings just in case I have to lean on another generation of the azalea.

Here’s a photo of this awesome single. Also you can see the Hexe flower in the bottom right of the frame. It’s a hose in hose.

cheers
DSD sends
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Dam that leaf color!!!

 

[hinmo24t]

im in. heres my two, $10 specials, purchased in fall 2020. still have to scope the rules, could render down to 1 for this contest
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now (about 1 year from above picture)
i had to get rid of extra branches on single tree, will have to carve or hardcut or let the transition even out
with that one

 

[Pitoon]

now (about 1 year from above picture)
i had to get rid of extra branches on single tree, will have to carve or hardcut or let the transition even out
with that one
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@hinmo24t is one of these two going to be your contest entry? If so, you can start your own progression thread. Ensure you post pics of what it looked like before you cut back. One entry for the contest.......pick the one you feel best. If it dies you can replace it with a new untouched one.

 

[hinmo24t]

@hinmo24t is one of these two going to be your contest entry? If so, you can start your own progression thread. Ensure you post pics of what it looked like before you cut back. One entry for the contest.......pick the one you feel best. If it dies you can replace it with a new untouched one.

10-4. the one on the right is what ill commit to! and it has accompanying original in here; wont post progress pics in here,
noted!

 

[FreshAirSunshine]

Would anyone mind if I made a joke contest post about my learning how to do azalea bonsai? I don’t have anything that’d fit the contest (everything was bought at a nursery since June but everything had some level of work done due to stupidity/pot issues/etc.) but I think it’d be fun to track their progress through 2025. I’d make the title very obviously a joke submission

 

[Glaucus]

What do you mean with 'joke submission'? If it is an actual azalea and you are just a late entry and 'not very good', but you want to share with others, why is it a 'joke submission'? If it is actually satire and/or not even a real azalea plant, uuh maybe try to general discussion thread? If it is too late to be an entry, and you want to post about an azalea, try the 'flowering' subforum. If your material doesn't follow the rules of the competition, same, just post in the 'flowering' subforum.

That's my understanding. But Pitoon runs the competition.

 

[FreshAirSunshine]

I guess it may be more relevant to the flowering forum then - it’s more that it’s now 2022 and my submission had some work done on it when I got it earlier this year (pruned/repotted) before I found the competition so it wouldn’t really follow rules. I’m not interested in the competition so much as just having a place to track development of the azalea over a few years though.

 

[FreshAirSunshine]

What do you mean with 'joke submission'? If it is an actual azalea and you are just a late entry and 'not very good', but you want to share with others, why is it a 'joke submission'? If it is actually satire and/or not even a real azalea plant, uuh maybe try to general discussion thread? If it is too late to be an entry, and you want to post about an azalea, try the 'flowering' subforum. If your material doesn't follow the rules of the competition, same, just post in the 'flowering' subforum.

That's my understanding. But Pitoon runs the competition.

Yeah my initial post was highly confusing now that I’m rereading it - sorry.

 

[Pitoon]

Would anyone mind if I made a joke contest post about my learning how to do azalea bonsai? I don’t have anything that’d fit the contest (everything was bought at a nursery since June but everything had some level of work done due to stupidity/pot issues/etc.) but I think it’d be fun to track their progress through 2025. I’d make the title very obviously a joke submission

I would prefer that you don't, thanks.

 

[coltranem]

Hi Everyone 2025 is right around the corner. Is the goal to create the "final" shot when in flower next spring? Or are folks still planning some winter pruning to improve ramification?

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

Believe the contest was setup for submissions during flowering. Not sure how much winter pruning will improve a show of ramification of an azalea while blooming. Also considering how pruning could have an impact on flowering, would be very discrete when using the pruning scissors.

Given this, there is much to be said about discrete bud pruning if the display is overly crowded, where the flowers crush against one another.

Cheers
DSD sends

 

[coltranem]

Believe the contest was setup for submissions during flowering. Not sure how much winter pruning will improve a show of ramification of an azalea while blooming. Also considering how pruning could have an impact on flowering, would be very discrete when using the pruning scissors.

Given this, there is much to be said about discrete bud pruning if the display is overly crowded, where the flowers crush against one another.

Cheers
DSD sends

This was what I was thinking. Pruning would be for better ramification later in the year post flowering. So in theory a better tree but little to no flower display.

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

Yes, it might be necessary tol remove suckers or districting growth.

Typically harder pruning and clean up of the structure is done in the spring.

It may be necessary to cut off new satsuki branchlets if they extend impede the blooms.
These will grow back over time.

For my entry the rabbit attack stymied growth between year 1-2 so it’s been more of a catch up project…. along with a great learning experience,

Cheers
DSD sends