Japanese Flowering Quince cuttings in training.

[MichaelS]

Nice! I'll gladly take some seeds off your hands if you have some available.

Send me a PM

 

[bonhe]

Yes this is one of them. I think it has some chojubai blood in it but I can't remember. I crossed it back to chojubai this spring and it has a big fat fruit on it now. I can send you some seeds if you want.

Very nice!
I love your offer, but I can not take it! Thanks anyway.
Bonhe

 

[milehigh_7]

I am just wanting to get more quince again... I mean to hit Brent up sometime soon. Maybe get some contorted and 'Not Minerva'... I just love em!

 

[bonhe]

I am just wanting to get more quince again... I mean to hit Brent up sometime soon. Maybe get some contorted and 'Not Minerva'... I just love em!

I am also thinking of getting contorted quince for a while now. I saw contorted quince with white and pink flowers, I think. The reason I am hesitate is that I am afraid of being overwhelmed !!
Bonhe

 

[namnhi]

I am also thinking of getting contorted quince for a while now. I saw contorted quince with white and pink flowers, I think. The reason I am hesitate is that I am afraid of being overwhelmed !!
Bonhe

Wise thinking I think.

 

[bonhe]

Wise thinking I think.

You know what, I will see them this morning and will make final decision
Bonhe

 

[bonhe]

I decided not taking contorted quince, but I took other interesting stuff to which I could not decline! The ume rootstocks!
Bonhe

 

[bonhe]

I strolled around my garden this morning and looked at this Toyo nishiki "Nichi-Getsu-Sei".
It is time to do air layering for it.
This picture was taken on 2/6/16. It has at least 5 places to do air layering.


The first branch had this type of flowers (picture was taken on 2/10/16)


The fourth branch had this type of flowers


This morning. I can see it has a good movement of the future trunk line!


This tree has a lot of flower buds at this time. I don't think it will give me flowers during Tết!


Bonhe

 

[bonhe]

A group of flowering quince came from the roots escaped from one flowering quince pot which used to be there 3 years ago. I will remove them into 3 - 4 groups for bonsai purpose soon!


I will have a lot of flowers in few weeks.
Bonhe

 

[bonhe]

one flower appeared this evening.


Bonhe

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Mine appears this morning. Chúc mừng năm mới, đại ca! Happy growing.

 

[bonhe]

Very nice flower. I can see it has light pink in the border of the petals.
Cám ơn tiểu đệ. Chúc mừng năm mới!!!!
Bonhe

 

[bonhe]

I start new year with a hybrid project on flowering quince.
I found very interesting flower this morning on the Toyo nishiki "Nichi-Getsu-Sei". It has 3 dark ivory color stripes (arrows) which I never saw in the past.


I took one flower from Chojubai quince.


Side by side comparing.


I touched Chojubai to Nichi-Getsu-Sei. I did the same thing to the white flower of Nichi-Getsu-Sei.
Bonhe

 

[thumblessprimate1]

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Bonhe

The colors pop like firecracker.

 

[bonhe]

The colors pop like firecracker.

Yeah, it is really good for Tết!
Bonhe

 

[bonhe]

I think I know how to get the flowering quince bonsai with short internode intervals.
The air layering one is having a lot of flower buds at this time. Will I remove those buds? No, I will not.
It will be trained as cascade one.


p/s: I did not see the root hit to the container yet, but I believe it has root.
Bonhe

 

[thumblessprimate1]

I think I know how to get the flowering quince bonsai with short internode intervals.
...
p/s: I did not see the root hit to the container yet, but I believe it has root.
Bonhe

What have you learned about getting short internodes? I haven't tried air layering TN, but I bet they root easily. Last year while approach grafting a branch, the branch started sprouting a root where it had been scraped. It was kept in a shady humid spot.

 

[bonhe]

"thumblessprimate1, What have you learned about getting short internodes?
To avoid apical dominance:
- Let the branches grow horizontally, or
- Keep removing apical bud.

I haven't tried air layering TN, but I bet they root easily.
Yes, they do. I mostly did air layering for Nichi- Getsu-Sei because I can get full patterns of flowers (with cutting, I will take a risk due to old wood cutting)
Bonhe

 

[thumblessprimate1]

@bonhe , have you ever had branches that pop up from the roots late spring or summer that would have blooms the same season? I think they are capable of having blooms the following spring.

 

[bonhe]

thumblessprimate1, ]@bonhe[/USER] , have you ever had branches that pop up from the roots late spring or summer that would have blooms the same season?
The suckers will come up from the rootage but no flower until next season.
Bonhe