Japanese Flowering Quince cuttings in training.

[bonhe]

Today. Continue blooming! Crazy!


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[keegan]

Have you ever tried field growing these quince here in SoCal?

 

[discusmike]

You have a amazing quince collection,I have only seen red n white chojubi for sale

 

[bonhe]

Have you ever tried field growing these quince here in SoCal?

I am guessing that you are talking about Chojubai. I don’t do field grow most of my trees because I don’t have any space! If I had, I would grow Chojubai in the ground. However, I would take more precautions for this! As you may know, Chojubai likes humidity and cool . In our area, it is too dry and hot! To grow Chojubai in our area, you must give it these requirements! Knowing that fact, I would not put under the direct sunlight and would give it plenty of humidity via automatic misty system ! I hope this info will help your decision!
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[bonhe]

I am planning to transplant some of flowering quince from plastic to clay containers this afternoon !

This one still has a lot of green leaves at this time!!!


I defoliated it. Let see what happens next.


The Unkyo quince will have flowers soon!

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[bonhe]

I transplanted 5 Nichi-Getsu-Sei quince into the clay pots yesterday. I cut a lot of roots. The soil is pumice: mini pine bark: fir ground with ratio 1:1:1. As always, I used twine to stabilize the tree in the new pot.
I know they still need a lot of work but in the mean time I can enjoy their flowers.


Four of them are having the flower buds at this time. They may bloom early this year!


I still have 2 more to be transplanted!
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[Cadillactaste]

So you have never had an issue repotting now verses fall then?

 

[bonhe]

So you have never had an issue repotting now verses fall then?

Not at all !
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[bonhe]

This contorted quince starts blooming now. Because the flower petals are thin compared to TN, its white color is not thick! You can see a little light pink in it. The white color will change to light pink in a few days.

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[bonhe]

I just transplanted another TN from plastic container to the clay pot this morning.
Before


I use DG : pumice : orchid seedling bark : fir ground with 1:3:2:2 ratio for this tree
After


It has flower buds at this time


I also made some cuttings at this time. Hopefully they will survive!


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[bonhe]

Seven days after transplanting, fee of them starts having swollen flower buds!





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[thumblessprimate1]

Not at all !
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Me too!

 

[0soyoung]

Me too!

... though I don't have one opening yet

 

[bonhe]

The 1st flower for this season.


Another one is having swelling flower buds. I am so excited to see the flower pattern of this tree!

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[bonhe]

This one is full of flower buds at this time


I will do air layer at this branch


Red flower to be


White and red patels ; white flower to be


White flower to be


White - red stripe; white flower to be

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[bonhe]

I expected this small one blooming right in the 1st day of Vietnamese New Year, but ....!!! We are getting a lot of rain, cold wind here in the last few days, so everything are slowing down!


Pictures of other quince

Enjoy!
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[bonhe]

I consider I am very lucky to get this fantastic quince, Nichi-Getsu-Sei, from my teacher in 2010. It was in 3 gallon container at that time. Then, I placed it into the 15 gallon container 2 years later to have mother tree for my study and propagation. After almost 9 years of extensive experiment, I think I get enough experience for this kind of quince but still need more learning. I started placing the cuttings and airlayerings into the bonsai pot in 2016. Last fall, I transplanted 5 more into the bonsai pots.
This is one of them to which I took pictures under light rain this morning.


These flower buds are from another tree.

I hope you will enjoy them as I do.
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[bonhe]

This quince started having two kinds of flowers this afternoon.

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[bonhe]

Early morning!


The flower of this one has darker pink stripe this year!

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[bonhe]

Outside temp was about 35 F at night for more than a week already. It slows down the quince flower progress. However, I am fine with that, since I enjoy looking at the flower buds as well!
This group of buds are fantastic to be looked at!


And this


The small bonsai


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