couple Zelkova seeds

[Darth Masiah]

i followed the directions on the package and this spring after planting out nothing happened. so i soaked some seeds out of the pack in the 5:2 humic/ kelp mix for 48 hours and threw them in a pot on april 14th.

5/8


5/18

 

[Darth Masiah]

potted up

 

[Skillachie]

Nice. Where did you buy the seeds?

 

[Darth Masiah]

sheffields.com

 

[Skillachie]

sheffields.com

Thank you

 

[Darth Masiah]

my fair lady z #1 gets worked

 

[Darth Masiah]

growing nicely.



a few others needed some work



1mm wire is too hard to work with at this early stage, so...



perfect size

 

[Darth Masiah]

going to cut these back again soon and rewire. in my climate they'll still be growing through september

 

[Thomas J.]

You have a start to what appears to be some really nice looking Zelkova, hopefully some day you'll have some that look like this one I saw online. Anyway what is this humic/kelp mix you mentioned for the soaking as I'll be getting some seeds soon also and would like to be as successful as you were. Also how long did it take for the seeds to sprout? TIA

 

[Darth Masiah]

You have a start to what appears to be some really nice looking Zelkova, hopefully some day you'll have some that look like this one I saw online. Anyway what is this humic/kelp mix you mentioned for the soaking as I'll be getting some seeds soon also and would like to be as successful as you were. Also how long did it take for the seeds to sprout? TIA

i was soaking the seeds in RAW brand powdered humic acid and kelp at a ratio of 5/2 before i planted them in the spring. helps plants root among other things. they sprouted a month after i planted them.

i like the thin branched, dense ones. if i just keep after it for the next ten years i should have a couple nice shohin pre bonsai

 

[Darth Masiah]

first one to get cut back again and rewired

 

[Darth Masiah]

 

[Darth Masiah]

a few shoots were getting long so i cut back a little

 

[Darth Masiah]

wrapped up a couple of these with the most color to see what im working with.



saw a really cool tree by Chen Yueh Chu, 2001 exhibition

 

[Darth Masiah]

oooh, the babies

 

[Darth Masiah]

 

[John P.]

Zelkovas are fun. Good luck with them!

 

[Orion_metalhead]

They root very easily from cuttings too... if you want even more that is!!!

 

[Darth Masiah]

i actually had some success taking cuttings from two zelkovas i got from Evergreen Gardenworks the other year ( bonsai time is different), but lost the cuttings to that late march freeze we had this year. one of the mothers, too. the other mother attracted some type of borer and their whole clan moved in. had little pillars of sawdust sticking out of and all up and down the trunk. i had planned on airlayering them and chopping the tops. i think i like the the structure from seed better.

 

[Darth Masiah]