TinyArt
Chumono
As I find myself on the same path, why not travel in good company?
So here we have my seeds —
So here we have my seeds —
From Seed Division: TinyArt’s Texas Ebony Forest
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LindaPat
Mame
did they come up?
TinyArt
Chumono
Thank you for asking --
I have to confess that I haven't started them.
Plans and circumstances keep shifting -- at first, I thought I'd better wait, rather than leave seed(ling)s in someone else's care -- but now with Delta running rampant here, I guess I'll get back to work.
Pictures when planted, and sprouting!
LindaPat
Mame
I like Texas Mahogany. Saw some Mahogany (not Really mahogany which is tropical I think) inColorado and thought it would be a beauty as bonsai. But I think it grows slowly. Haven’t seen any place to buy a bush.
Atrox
Mame
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TinyArt
Chumono
TinyArt
Chumono
These are Ebenopsis ebano, Texas Ebony -- formerly known as Pithecellobium flexicaule, according to Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Growing Bonsai Indoors, 2013 edition. (A helpful book, as I'm new to bonsai and need to hedge my bets with species that are likeliest to tolerate my climate and my care...
)More on the species:
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TinyArt
Chumono
Atrox
Mame
This is a bit more recent of the tall one, it is about 20 years old from seed. The "Oak" stile is about 15, from seed. Here in Tucson these grow fairly fast with good drainage and lots of water. They volunteer here occasionally, big plants to trees produce tons of seeds, but to ensure germination one must nick the seed, then, for me, they are about 50%. The tall one grew in the ground for 10 years before I started to work on it. The other about 5. Wasn't doing bonsai then.
Thorney! but worth it. If one is sure that a new branch will not be needed the thorns can be cut very close, sometimes they will throw a leaf there again but not usually. With the zig zag growth clip and grow works as well as bending if one goes slow. I let them both go crazy for a few months then deleaf enough to see what I am doing for new major work.
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Thorney! but worth it. If one is sure that a new branch will not be needed the thorns can be cut very close, sometimes they will throw a leaf there again but not usually. With the zig zag growth clip and grow works as well as bending if one goes slow. I let them both go crazy for a few months then deleaf enough to see what I am doing for new major work.
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TinyArt
Chumono
@Atrox -- thanks, this is exciting!
Mine exist only as potential -- but seeing the scale of the foliage, the character of the bark, etc., etc., of yours, I'm really encouraged!
Glad you mentioned ground-growing. I have a planter with excellent drainage, and have had thoughts of laying tiles in it, with suitable soil layered over it. There's plenty of room to experiment --
But that leads me to a new question: were your young seedlings getting direct sunlight, or were they safer as "understory" plants at first?
Mine exist only as potential -- but seeing the scale of the foliage, the character of the bark, etc., etc., of yours, I'm really encouraged!
Glad you mentioned ground-growing. I have a planter with excellent drainage, and have had thoughts of laying tiles in it, with suitable soil layered over it. There's plenty of room to experiment --
But that leads me to a new question: were your young seedlings getting direct sunlight, or were they safer as "understory" plants at first?
Atrox
Mame
Here in Tucson seedlings of any kind need shade cloth for a year sometimes. Also we have sooooo many Quail that anything tasty is eaten soon as it comes up. Our rains just started but before that we had 6 weeks of 100+ and very low humidity. As you can see I really don't grow "bonsai" hahahaha I just enjoy working with the trees and shrubs to grow just literally "little trees" I also work with a tree that here is called hackberry , manzanita, createsolid brush ,mountain mahogany, Palo Verde.
TinyArt
Chumono
*hands on hips*...And why do I not see your entries in the Native Tree/Native Pot threads???
Pretty please, show us your trees!
LindaPat
Mame
I believe this is the “mahogany “ I saw in Colorado, mountain mahogany. https://blog.twoknobbytires.com/2008/12/11/true-mountain-mahogany-cercocarpus/
LindaPat
Mame
Here is another of the three cercocarpus species:
Mountain Mahogany | Sierra Vista Growers
Native to the Western U.S. mountains and Northern Mexico. A compact evergreen shrub or small tree with shaggy red bark. Leaves are dark green above, covered with a dense wool below, simple, alternate, obovate to elliptic, serrate, 3/4" to 1" long, 1/4" to 1/2" wide. Inconspicuous white flowers...
www.sierravistagrowers.net
TinyArt
Chumono
@LindaPat time to get some mahogany for yourself, and start a thread or two!
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LindaPat
Mame
Haha! I bought one mail order from a Garden center in Colorado, but very young. Three little tender limbs. Maybe should take a pic and post for the native tree contest. Doubt it will make it in the Philly climate tho. Somehow thinking it will succumb to a fungus away from its desert air.
TinyArt
Chumono
Best wishes for a happy & hardy little tree!
LindaPat
Mame
SO little. 
LindaPat
Mame
Based on growth this summer i will be lucky if it reaches “pencil in pot” stage this decade. Haha. Also is not native within 200 miles of Philly. But I couldn’t resist. And above the string is a sacrifice branch. Haha again!
LindaPat
Mame
So the closest thing to a native within 200 miles is a deer browsed hop hornbeam collected from New York state about 4 springs ago. I have several of these. This summer I read you could put the pot in a pan of water to keep the edges of the leaves from browning. I read it after the browning happened, as it does every summer. I have since wired the straight branches Realize now that the deer were what put the nice curves in it 
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