Sean’s Trident Projects

Hi Sean, did you capture any photos of the fungal infected leaves? I would like to see if that fungicide would likely treat what seems to affect my tridents. It results in a downward palm of the hand shaped leaf and brown margins. Healthy ones planted in the ground are unaffected but it always hits any tridents in pots.
 
It's getting very hard to resist getting a bunch of trident seedlings for the coming year because of this thread. I gotta make one of those metal plates with holes...

Someone told me you used to be able to get 100 trident seedlings for maybe $50-$100 (I forget exactly). Those must have been fun times...
 
Hi Sean, did you capture any photos of the fungal infected leaves? I would like to see if that fungicide would likely treat what seems to affect my tridents. It results in a downward palm of the hand shaped leaf and brown margins. Healthy ones planted in the ground are unaffected but it always hits any tridents in pots.
@birchman I can do one better, here are 2 videos I made to send to a bonsai friend. Please excuse the commentary 😂

 
@birchman I can do one better, here are 2 videos I made to send to a bonsai friend. Please excuse the commentary 😂

Lekker! thanks man. Didn't get the commentary anyway but the pictures tell me it appears to be the same thing. Wanted to confirm before pulling the trigger because propiconazole (sp.?) is $100 for a litre. Mancozeb sprays have only gotten temporary results.

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Lekker @birchman! There aren’t any “home use” Propocanizole only products available in SA, so I’ve been using a 3 in 1 rose care product that contains it as one of the 3 active ingredients. Seems to be working a charm!


As you’ll see in the video the fresh leaves would literally turn black within an hour of emerging and would crumble into black ash in your hands. My treatment regime was to go through every single plant and cut away any infected areas, then 3 weekly applications of the fungicide. It’s been 2 weeks now since the last application and everything looks good. I’m going to do a follow up spray of daconil this week as a preventative measure.
 
Might see if i can find something a bit cheaper like your product over here. Sounds like hard work but if I'm growing tridents year on year I might as well get a preventative treatment sorted now.
Cheers.
 
Back to some tridents! Here’s a large multi trunk ROR. The rock has an overhang above a nice inward crevice, I’ve trailed the roots down against the overhang. I’m fusing some of the seedlings together and am grafting a shoot onto one of the roots to create an extra trunk

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7 trunk clump, I threaded the seedlings through a metal washer in spring and they’ve already fused. A month or so ago I covered the washer and fused base with soil. This past weekend I cleared away the soil and there are loads of new roots above the washer. I’m planning to create a tall skinny trunk clump like this one from the 89th Kokufu (2015)

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A few more RORs

Both of these will be chopped down to the grafts, which will become their new trunk lines. I used seedlings so the first sets of buds are too high for the intended designs.

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Smaller one

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This one is really slow to respond and was badly effected by the fungus issue mentioned earlier

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Interesting rock. 3 seedlings attached, one of them looped around the knobby bit of the rock

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Severed the graft on one of my ROR tridents. Unfortunately when I performed the graft I managed to snap the graft close to the exit so didn’t manage to get the movement I really wanted into the shoot. You’ll notice a knob on the underside of the shoot. I’m slowly bending the shoot a little each week to try to get a bit more movement into it, while paying attention the weak point.

2 buds started growing on the graft right at the entry point. These new shoots are still alive after severing the graft! Quite interesting. You’ll notice the one shoot in the upper right corner of the photos.

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Late season shot of one of my ROR tridents. This one was allowed free growth for a 2nd season in one of my grow beds and had a shoot grafted near the top of the rock for the future trunk line. It will be reduced in spring when I lift it and put it into a pot. Note how some of the roots on the right have fused together.

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August 2022

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This one will have some roots grafted to fill in the gap in the exposed root section, I'm planning on grafting 3 seedlings to fill the hole.

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The 2 buds that are poking out where the exposed roots meet are a graft I performed this season, the rest of the tree will be built from those 2 buds.

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Here you can see where the graft is/was.

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