thams
Omono
Hi everyone, it's been some time since I stopped in. Life has been overwhelmingly crazy the past few years and my whole bonsai hobby fell by the wayside as a result. I've been doing a lot of thinking and I've decided that I want to try developing and keeping a Nippon Daisy bonsai collection. I've tried keeping dozens of trees of all different sorts at the same time and I just can't keep up right now. A lot of the trees gave it up during the heat last year, and the rest I put in the ground (mostly yaupon holly with decent 6-8" trunks) for future developing. Something about Nippons grab my attention though, so I'm going for it. Plus I have some awesome Roy Minarai pots that would pair well with Nippons.
Here are two that I got from @Pitoon a couple of years back. I've put them in the ground in semi-compacted amended red clay and they've thickened much fast than some other cuttings growing in an above-ground planter with really nice soil. Hard to tell but trunks are about 1.5". I kept it leggy to see if the additional growth would help fatten the trunk. I think some of the "cascading" trunks have ground layered (yay!), so I plan to dig in the spring, separate, and replant for an additional year or two. Something about the clay develops them faster, which tracks with Bill V's advice. The ones in deep pots with 50% clay seem to develop relatively faster too. Last picture is a Nippon I bought from a local gardener. I put it in the ground too - unfortunately it was kept a little too moist, so I had some dieback and some shelf mushrooms growing. I guess we'll see what happens with that one, but the trunk is about 2.5-3". Bummer to lose that one...
Here are two that I got from @Pitoon a couple of years back. I've put them in the ground in semi-compacted amended red clay and they've thickened much fast than some other cuttings growing in an above-ground planter with really nice soil. Hard to tell but trunks are about 1.5". I kept it leggy to see if the additional growth would help fatten the trunk. I think some of the "cascading" trunks have ground layered (yay!), so I plan to dig in the spring, separate, and replant for an additional year or two. Something about the clay develops them faster, which tracks with Bill V's advice. The ones in deep pots with 50% clay seem to develop relatively faster too. Last picture is a Nippon I bought from a local gardener. I put it in the ground too - unfortunately it was kept a little too moist, so I had some dieback and some shelf mushrooms growing. I guess we'll see what happens with that one, but the trunk is about 2.5-3". Bummer to lose that one...
