Euonymus Broom Progression

[MHBonsai]

Current state 2021:



2018 I found this burning bush growing as a volunteer in the side of the house. About 8’ tall and multi trunk, I chopped it early spring and let it grow in ground for a year. It responded with a ton of new

2019 I started the dig.

 

[MHBonsai]

Roots were better than I thought. Pretty flat and with a cool low wiggle in the trunk.


After some cleanup, got into a pot pretty easy.

 

[MHBonsai]

Chopped it down and picked some primary branches. Couldn’t get used to the tall straight section and ended up chopping it again.

 

[MHBonsai]

Trunk is about 4” across after the root flare. Let it grow all season 2019. This is the next spring’s flush after a hard cutback.






Cleaned up the chops and structural wired.

 

[MHBonsai]

The big chop is closing. Faster than I assumed it would.

My mode of operation for this guy is to basically let it run all year, when branches fork select the one I want as the dominant line and trim back the others. I have only gotten one flush per season but it is super consistent to back bud.

The new growth is so pretty on these.

 

[MHBonsai]

Repot this spring should be fun!

 

[ABCarve]

Love to see some fall color. Should be quite a show.

 

[MHBonsai]

Love to see some fall color. Should be quite a show.

I wasn’t able to get it enough sun this year to really pop. (Most of my benches are partially shaded with the heat we have here.)

I’ll try more full sun this year and see how it responds!

 

[MHBonsai]

Repot!

 

[MHBonsai]

The coloring is kind of a mystery to me. The lower part of the trunk is a nice pale white and cleans up really well. The upper trunk was covered in green algae, I scrubbed it down and it has this nice reddish bark. Looks like maybe as it ages it will continue to whiten.

These grow such nice fibrous roots. Eventually I will get this in a much smaller pot. The root ball is good and flat now.

 

[MrWunderful]

Looks great. I have some E. fortunei that I am developing, hoping to go for a similar style.

 

[MHBonsai]

Needs some wire:

 

[canoeguide]

This is fantastic and I love where this is headed in the next year or two! I just started with the species this spring and the roots are crazy prolific. Mine all have similar bark as yours where I exposed during repotting.

 

[MHBonsai]

 

[MHBonsai]

Cut it back hard after letting it grow all summer and it's pushing another small flush of growth!

 

[Jiminsauga]

Cut it back hard after letting it grow all summer and it's pushing another small flush of growth!

When you say cut back hard, does that mean you're cutting back to the first set of leaves?

Also, do you know if leaving say two sets of leaves means you'll get four secondary branches the next year? I have budding at each leafbut I don't know if that translates to a new beach each or just flowers next spring.

 

[BeepBeepBonsaiSheep]

That dual color is pretty cool

Also, I love your avatar. One of my favorite works of art

 

[MHBonsai]

When you say cut back hard, does that mean you're cutting back to the first set of leaves?

Also, do you know if leaving say two sets of leaves means you'll get four secondary branches the next year? I have budding at each leafbut I don't know if that translates to a new beach each or just flowers next spring.

I think it depends on how strong the tree is. On this cutback I’m going back to anywhere from one to six nodes.

This spring it pushed new growth on just about every available node/bud

 

[Jiminsauga]

I think it depends on how strong the tree is. On this cutback I’m going back to anywhere from one to six nodes.

This spring it pushed new growth on just about every available node/bud

Thanks, that's reassuring.

Your tree is making great progress.

 

[Kodama]

Good documentation on the process. Thanks for sharing! Did the leaves reduce size from when it was originally in the ground?