Paradox
Marine Bonsologist
This is a smoke tree I purchased from Home Depot in June of 2013
In September of 2013, I broke a few "rules" and did a major pruning on the tree and reduced it down to one trunk. In April 2014, it was amazingly still alive and I repotted it.
Here is what it looked like then. It was a pretty sad looking tree.
I just let it grow in 2014 and left it alone in the hopes that it would back bud.
This past April, I could see that it was not back budding down the trunk as I had hoped.
So in a "sink or swim/live or die" action, I cut it back hard.
Well to my amazement, the damn thing started back budding like crazy so I repotted it again because the soild I had it in before was staying to wet. This has definitely been the biggest surprise of 2015 so far and I am happy with where it is going.
In September of 2013, I broke a few "rules" and did a major pruning on the tree and reduced it down to one trunk. In April 2014, it was amazingly still alive and I repotted it.
Here is what it looked like then. It was a pretty sad looking tree.
I just let it grow in 2014 and left it alone in the hopes that it would back bud.
This past April, I could see that it was not back budding down the trunk as I had hoped.
So in a "sink or swim/live or die" action, I cut it back hard.
Well to my amazement, the damn thing started back budding like crazy so I repotted it again because the soild I had it in before was staying to wet. This has definitely been the biggest surprise of 2015 so far and I am happy with where it is going.