Yes. You saw the picture I posted early this year that I got it just coming from the seeds of a tamarind we ate late in the summer.
ANd I think if you measure the trunk that is visible on your initial picture it is even around just over 1 inch. Happy to see my visual cues still are not lying too badly. But.. Nice result for one season! (It was one season, right?)
Leatherback got me real curious so I brought my caliper out. It is 1 3/8" at 2" above the base.
Nice tree, is it outdoors already?
Them weeds is problematic. You have two of the worst weeds: Black Medic and Bittercress. BM spreads with underground rhizomes and puts deep carrot shaped roots into the upper roots of your trees that break off easily and take years to get rid of, once establish. Yours is established. The seeds will find their way to every pot you own, and your yard, forever. Bittercress has skinny exploding seed tips and may be even worse doing the same thing. Use a Bernz-O-matic butane torch them on the surface until they are exhausted.
Awesome! Did you chop down to a stump with no leaves? I have several seedlings that I'm training though they're far from being this size, diameter of the trunk (if it can be called a trunk) is just a couple mm.
They had been in the land when I first got here! Yeah it is tough to fight them.
Yeah. Tamarindus indica will bud easily. They grow quick too. This thing is only 1.5 year old. I planted it from seed in the fall of 2018.
Great! Now I have something to look forward to, there's not a lot of info about tamarinds out there.
Copy this "cây me bonsai" and search YouTube. You will see amazing tamarind bonsai and detail work on the tree. I must say my taste is a little different than theirs since in the preference there is for exotic shape they call "quái". I'm more a naturalist so I go for the shape of the tamarind trees I saw in my youth.
Thanks! Now I see that there's actually a lot of info.
Another question, did you do any root work on it?
Not yet. I'm planning to do that next year. All I did was spreading out the young roots evenly and planted it in a shallow pot.
It now looks like a Brazilian rain tree. I already see the branches that I will cut back to this coming winter to improve taper.
