discusmike
Omono
I could never get the leaves in scale with the tree with my toyo,thats gonna be cool looking in ten years
Thanks for sharing. Very beautiful! Mine did not fully wake up yet! It may be ready in few weeks.
Very nice! Both mine from Brent only produce reds.Exactly one year later from the post above:
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This year, the red flowers came first and white flowers, or whitish flowers have come last.
Very nice ! Thanks for sharingExactly one year later from the post above:
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This year, the red flowers came first and white flowers, or whitish flowers have come last.
I think this is the way it is. The red flower is much stronger than the white. You will be lucky to have the white flowers ?Very nice! Both mine from Brent only produce reds.
I know how you feel now ?Hidden, under the leaves, I found this: 2 red flowers and 2 white flowers on the same branch.
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This year, my Toyonishiki Improved from Brent has suckers from 2019 that bloomed. For a while the cuttings from Brent only bloomed red, but from the suckers I now have the other colors. For my purposes, I may remove the suckers or get rid of them. I'll keep only the reds for grafting.For those attracted to flowering bonsai, the Toyo Nishiki is irresistible. Most likely, this is due to the red, white and pink floral display that comes each spring. Also included with this beautiful quince, and a number of problems: 1) Internodes (space between the buds) tend to be long, making for gangly bonsai, instead of the compact forms favored today, and 2) While white and pink flowers are standard, the red flowers are notoriously difficult to generate. There are different theories as to why this is so, but for the enthusiast like myself, I just want the flowers. Of course, grafting branches that have already produced red flowers is one approach to the problem, but the value of the tree is less than if the red flowers appeared spontaneously. According to critics.
In Japan, there are cultivars of Toyo Nishiki that have all 3 colors of flowers present from the start, but these cultivars are not readily available in the US. Then, Brent Walston of Evergreen Gardenworks offered his Toyo Nishiki Improved in 2013. I have been working with this cultivar since then, mostly in the form of my Toyo Nishiki Improved Forest. Here’s what Brent says about his offering:
“The flowering is variable and quite unpredictable. Some branches … will be mostly red flowers, others mostly pink and white, but nearly all will also have multi-colored flowers as well. “
I find this description to be true. It is the multi-colored flowers that sets this tree apart. Additionally, the internodes can be managed easily by judicious pruning, and the tree ramifies reasonably well.
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This year, my Toyonishiki Improved from Brent has suckers from 2019 that bloomed. For a while the cuttings from Brent only bloomed red, but from the suckers I now have the other colors. For my purposes, I may remove the suckers or get rid of them. I'll keep only the reds for grafting.