Seiju!

[cmeg1]

Lol I know, You want some cuttings? They root ridiculously easy and I have wayyyy more than I want or need. Slap some wire on em, bend them into nice shapes, and you got yourself some nice mame in short order.

No,I'm good.I have about 46 zelkova rooting now.
I know what you mean with "perlite.Stick em in my propagator".
That is exactly what I did this year...getting pretty good at cuttings now.

I am going to shape very early ,then let mega leaders shoot for the sky to build the resulting trunks. Should get some stocky trunks with pleasing shapes really quick.

 

[JoeR]

No,I'm good.I have about 46 zelkova rooting now.
I know what you mean with "perlite.Stick em in my propagator".
That is exactly what I did this year...getting pretty good at cuttings now.

I am going to shape very early ,then let mega leaders shoot for the sky to build the resulting trunks. Should get some stocky trunks with pleasing shapes really quick.

Hey, me too! I have wayyy too many zelkova, I didn't think every single seed would germinate lol.

 

[music~maker]

Perlite. Stick em in my propagator and forget about them. Surprising you have a hard time rooting them; do you grow anything else from cuttings?

I honestly just did it the lazy way the couple of times I tried - just stuck them in soil and watered them. =)

The things I do grow from cuttings are things that are a lot less fussy (jade & ficus mostly). I had just sort of written seiju off as yet another hardwood cutting that resists rooting. But if I just need to provide a humid environment to get them to take, that's great news. I have a decent sized one that could provide a ton of cuttings and I wouldn't mind having a bunch more to experiment with. It's a great species to work with, and I generally only see them at bonsai shops.

 

[cmeg1]

I honestly just did it the lazy way the couple of times I tried - just stuck them in soil and watered them. =)

The things I do grow from cuttings are things that are a lot less fussy (jade & ficus mostly). I had just sort of written seiju off as yet another hardwood cutting that resists rooting. But if I just need to provide a humid environment to get them to take, that's great news. I have a decent sized one that could provide a ton of cuttings and I wouldn't mind having a bunch more to experiment with. It's a great species to work with, and I generally only see them at bonsai shops.

I have found that cuttings root in the propagator from semi-ripe.Fresh late spring or sometimes spring if it is slightly woody.Even early summer to get it semi-ripe.
Softwood are very difficult because they usually do not survive.Slightly woody will survive long enough to go the distance in the propagator.
And be sure they do not dry out.I water mine every day as the water drains right out of the perlite.I cut with a razor just below a node and remove the bottom leaf and cover the cutting with gel all the part in the rooting medium.The gel will actually sustain it.
Thanks @JoeR for the thread.
Here is the gel I used and a picture of a semi-ripe cutting.
The gel is over .5% IBA.

 

[music~maker]

I have found that cuttings root in the propagator from semi-ripe.Fresh late spring or sometimes spring if it is slightly woody.Even early summer to get it semi-ripe.
Softwood are very difficult because they usually do not survive.Slightly woody will survive long enough to go the distance in the propagator.
And be sure they do not dry out.I water mine every day as the water drains right out of the perlite.I cut with a razor just below a node and remove the bottom leaf and cover the cutting with gel all the part in the rooting medium.The gel will actually sustain it.
Thanks @JoeR for the thread.
Here is the gel I used and a picture of a semi-ripe cutting.
The gel is over .5% IBA.

This is very helpful - thanks. I've been planning on diving deeper into propagation at some point in the relatively near future, and this looks like a great way to start.

 

[JoeR]

this mame has changed alot since the older posts,,, lost a bunch of branches. I know seiju is predisposed to this but I think the shallow pot doesn't help. That, and letting escapes grow too long (get too strong)

Anyways, this tree will reluctantly be going in a different direction now.

 

[cmeg1]

Favorite photo of the day:
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@JoeR
thanks for bringing this thread back.....one of the funniest statements I have remembered and always wondered where it was at.
This is great job bringing this to where it is now.
ManI laughed when Brien said this

 

[cmeg1]

Great job keeping this material..........

 

[JoeR]

@JoeR
thanks for bringing this thread back.....one of the funniest statements I have remembered and always wondered where it was at.
This is great job bringing this to where it is now.
ManI laughed when Brien said this
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You know at the time I think i was probably irritated by the comment haha. Now, I laugh out loud every time I see it again, if there's a bnut hall of fame this has gotta be in it. It was bought sight unseen

Edit: looked through the thread, yep I was mad at him lol. What can I say, I was 15 at the time and apparently thin skinned.

You wouldn't be laughing if you saw that trunk now in the grow bed

 

[leatherback]

You wouldn't be laughing if you saw that trunk now in the grow bed

pictures or it did not happen!

 

[Davidlpf]

this mame has changed alot since the older posts,,, lost a bunch of branches. I know seiju is predisposed to this but I think the shallow pot doesn't help. That, and letting escapes grow too long (get too strong)

Anyways, this tree will reluctantly be going in a different direction now.

Good work, congratulations.

Seiju elms grow relatively fast if you let them: No pruning and big pots, or planting them in the ground.

I have one since their humble beginning in 2015 (4,99 € in a Germany eBay seller) click,click

to now

So far, so good!

Here in Spain they are so hardly to find, and the ones who have a little big size, are crazy expensive.
Maybe it wasn't a great material at first, but I'm very proud how it looks now, "only" after five years, and growing in big pots, not in the ground

Cheers.

 

[JoeR]

pictures or it did not happen!

The most recent picture I have of it, 2019. Planted on a tile... not fantastic but compared to the fishbone it was before