Double white flowering prunus

[Carol 83]

I tried three grfts and have failed on all of them.
I need to be tought by someone experimented

Have you been drinking

 

[barrosinc]

Have you been drinking

I just suck at aftercare... They were approach grafts with shimpaku and my friend that came watering while i was on holiday didn't see the little pots hanging from the tree. Second case the branch moved while being grafted.

 

[Carol 83]

QUOTE="barrosinc, post: 484974, member: 16837"]I just suck at aftercare... They were approach grafts with shimpaku and my friend that came watering while i was on holiday didn't see the little pots hanging from the tree. Second case the branch moved while being grafted.[/QUOTE]
Just commenting on your spelling, teasing

 

[barrosinc]

Sorry, English is not my first language.
Besides the grft typo, what else is wrong?

Edit: ohhh taught!

 

[JudyB]

probably going into a flat box! I might be able to transplant today. I will post pics.



I think I will be leaving:

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I like what you're seeing in the tree here. When you transplant, please take some pics from lower.

 

[barrosinc]

here is a picture that is more straight on...


Too late to repot?
The tree looks healthy...

 

[Giga]

I've actually never seen an ume with flowers and leaves

 

[thumblessprimate1]

I've actually never seen an ume with flowers and leaves

He said it's not ume.

It is not mume. I believe some sort of hybrid of mume and plum.

As the prunus blireana is a hybrid of mume

Prunus × blireana, the purple-leafed plum[1] or double-flowering plum,[2] is an ornamental cultivar in the genus Prunus. It is a cross between the Japanese apricot and the purple-leaved plum (Prunus cerasifera var. 'Pissardii').[1]

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Really pretty flowers and nice trunk. That is a trunk I would enjoy trying to train if it were on my bench. Great find.

You have leaves open, too late in my opinion to repot.

There is the possibility of summer and autumn repotting, I successfully repot many times, and many species in summer or autumn.

I don't know your climate, so use your judgement. Anytime after most shoots have the first 4 or 6 leaves hardened off the "summer season" has begun. My summers are mild, rarely over 32 C, or 90 F. So summer repotting is easy for me. If your summers are mild, repot away, usually beginning a few weeks after summer solstice. Repot up to autumn equinox. Prunus x blireana is very cold tolerant, I would not worry about your winter after the repot, you are rarely more than a few degrees below freezing.

If your summers are blazing hot and dry, don't repot until late summer or early autumn. Repot when night temperature regularly drops below 18 C, roughly 65F. So think about your climate, and decide when your second best season for repotting begins.

 

[MichaelS]

I have cut back and repotted many trees at this stage of growth. These are very tough. (soil looks exhausted) I would not graft it. It is nice enough as is.

You have to cut everything off if you want to repot. Seal the cuts too.



Also you have a lot of dead area which will need attention.

 

[barrosinc]

I have cut back and repotted many trees at this stage of growth. These are very tough. (soil looks exhausted) I would not graft it. It is nice enough as is.

You have to cut everything off if you want to repot. Seal the cuts too.
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Also you have a lot of dead area which will need attention.

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A bit too late! but some nice info.
I chopped most of it back, left less than what you show.
I was wondering if that part was dead to carve a bit out of it.

 

[Shun]

Nice material! I have a white Prunus also but I do not know its subspecies.. maybe Prunus Serrulata? Idk really.. this is a photo of its flower. Long gone now but I saved it for reference.

Its not an ume also.

 

[discusmike]

I think this will end up being your nicest tree

 

[SFJim]

My little cherry from a rooted twig I snapped of a street tree in 2007. What is it, Prunus ?

 

[barrosinc]

I have cut back and repotted many trees at this stage of growth. These are very tough. (soil looks exhausted) I would not graft it. It is nice enough as is.

You have to cut everything off if you want to repot. Seal the cuts too.
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Also you have a lot of dead area which will need attention.

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Working on the dead wood with manual tools.



Thoughts on the pot? I think i like the fit.

 

[MichaelS]

Working on the dead wood with manual tools.

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Thoughts on the pot? I think i like the fit.

Yes a good fit but you will need to repot yearly!

 

[mrt1]

Plz post pic when potted!

 

[M. Frary]

I think i like the fit.

Until you try to get it out.

 

[barrosinc]

Until you try to get it out.

Hhahahhaha hadn't thought of that. Is it terrible to use a sickle to cut it out??

Yes a good fit but you will need to repot yearly!

Why? Does it seem to small?

 

[M. Frary]

Hhahahhaha hadn't thought of that. Is it terrible to use a sickle to cut it out??


Why? Does it seem to small?

Maybe he's referring to it being a bag pot too.
I have a nice one.
I'm not sure how I'll get the tree out when it comes time but Ill figure it out.
Maybe a sickle. I think they make an actual tool for this problem.