Japanese Flowering Quince cuttings in training.

[bonhe]

I propagated most of my SMS via air layering because I can choose whatever flowering pattern for them. To get the air layering root out, take many months ( over 6 months ). Sometimes I wanted to separate the air layered in 4 months, it just had a big callus , but it would be survived (in this case, it sometimes took one year to show the life!)

This is SMS mom yesterday. A lot of flowers now


4 air layered branches were cut down . I air layered these in July 2021


The white young root was seen when sphagnum moss was removed from one of them .


They were placed in the 1 gallon plastic pots. I used the old soil got from other bonsai pot transplant. I never throw away the used bonsai soil! I always keep them in the big plastic pot and use it for cutting ! Because most my bonsai soil does not have akadama. I have been using pumice, lava cinder (sometimes), mini pine bark, ground fir. After five years, pumice , lava cinder are still intact , of course; pine bark decomposed but still in a shape to be used. By doing that, it saved me a ton of money for other uses, without compromising the tree health .


I also did some cuttings in the same time .


They were placed in the shade area.


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[bonhe]

Today, I recognized a few flower buds on this branch have same characteristics as the current flower!

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This afternoon.
All of pink petals have short white lines go from the edges down. I really like this. It makes me think of the cat’s ears . Hahahaa I think I am having a gene mutation of SMS! I have never seen pink petal on SMS !


Down the branch, it has a flowering bud, with possible red stripe on white petal


One internode down, there is another one : probably white petals ; with another one, I can not say what it will be .

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[bonhe]

This afternoon.
All of pink petals have short white lines go from the edges down. I really like this. It makes me think of the cat’s ears . Hahahaa I think I am having a gene mutation of SMS! I have never seen pink petal on SMS !
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Down the branch, it has a flowering bud, with possible red stripe on white petal
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One internode down, there is another one : probably white petals ; with another one, I can not say what it will be .
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The bud opened today.



I love pink with red together!
Whole branch


How is about this bud? I can see there is one red stripe ! Let see it tomorrow.


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[Carol 83]

I love pink with red together!

Me too!

 

[エドガー]

I still want an air-layer of your SMS

 

[LittleBee]

This one is having the second blooming this year!
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It is interesting to see the color of the filaments are same color of petals accordingly.
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Bonhe

Hi, been admiring your bonsai collection for a long time. I have tried to buy this variety of toyo nishiki flowering quince for 10 years now but have not been success. I got 10-15 of them from different local and online nurseries but all give pinkish-white. None can give clear white and red like this. Lately I learned that there is a so called: toyo nishiki "improved" or a.k.a Nichi-Getsu-Seisu (Hán Việt là Nhật Nguyệt Tinh). Wonder if you know if this is it? and wonder if I could xin a couple cutting?

 

[エドガー]

With other species, I usually/always started cuttings late-spring ("semi hardwood")... but, just for kicks, after pruning my very vigorous in-ground/garden quinces last fall (def thicker "hardwood" cuttings), I thought to myself, "what the heck... let me stick some clippings in soil/pots and see what happens next spring" (I had hundreds of clippings from pruning them bushy things).

I was surprised all of them have rooted, are sprouting and/or have buds waking up. Like hundreds of cuttings (just gotta divide them soon into separate lil pots).

I wasn't expected them to take root so easily... as if it was an ordinary perennial or herbaceous plant, or even as easy as a succulent.

I am so used to difficult cuttings and air-layers, that I've become so used to failure, haha. (eg: ume (notoriously difficult cuttings), satsuki [these def root somewhat easy; but also die easily later on cuz of hot SoCal weather), J maples (v difficult to keep cuttings alive in SoCal), black pine (almost impossible), junipers (junipers are pretty easy tho).

I guess it makes sense tho... since chanomeles sucker like crazy... and sucker'y plants are supposedly the easiest cuttings to root, or even make root-cuttings from.

 

[LittleBee]

Wow, what type/color of your quince?