The Fukien Trooper

[Tadakun]

I don't post too often but I sure lurk enough, reading up and increasing my knowledge base. This is my 2nd tree I acquired while living in Vermont.

there are two angles....its in the middle of a...out of control moment. it had a typical spiral shape, I've removed a good chunk from the top and I'm trying to bring it's overall height down. I'll do a virt in a little bit. I have to constantly keep it's flowering under control, I can't believe how happy this tree has been, especially considering it dropped 99% of it's leaves a 2 months ago because I was a bad tree father and forgot to water it.

I gladly welcome any criticism or suggestions of where this should go.








Edit: added my vision.

 

[stacy allen muse]

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[Tadakun]

No need to remove the flowers. Teas are not a plant that waste much energy on flowers... They are nice to look at, and you are not really gaining anything.

Watch your watering inside. A jumping off point is probally about once a week inside.
Teas can handle alot of water when they aren't inside.

Besides this you need to work on your wiring. Jumping from a branch to a place further down
the trunk as you did, does not give the wire proper support and either will not hold when bent,
or worse yet, the branch will break from lack of support while bending. So work, and practice up on this... for it will save you a bunch of headaches and sad faces...

That jump with the wire was actually the only way I was able to redirect that branch. It's also a secondary wire. It's already wired normally but it wanted to wander, so did a crappy job at fabricating a secondary support.

As for watering if I dont water it every 3 days it will drop every single leaf it has. Trust me....I thought I killed it.

I'm glad to know that about the tree because I've been feverishly removing flowers every other day.

 

[stacy allen muse]

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