Even Dwarfs Started Small

[AlainK]

OK, the title of the post is totally irrelevant.

Anyway...

I bought a Liquidambar styracyflua on sale a couple of years ago, it was about 2m50 (about 8 feet). I reduced it to 90 cm (3 feet). Here is what it looked like in October 2014:

I repotted it in a shallower pot in March 2015:

Tonight, I put it in a pot I got from a friend at my local club:

To do:

- Remove the "first branch" on the right
- Reduce the top

But for the moment, I'll let if leaf out...

 

[Anthony]

Thumbs up !

 

[Adair M]

Alain,

I would choose a different pot. It looks very unstable in that bowl shaped pot. It's too small, too.

And it's really not yet ready for something that small. It still needs todo a lot of growing, and for that it needs room for roots to grow.

You've done a nice job developing a nice taper to the trunk. Now you need to develop a similiar taper to your branches. To do this, you need to let them grow, then chop them back hard. Just like a trunk chop. Don't start going for fine ramification, you need tapering branches first. Then secondaries. THEN ramification.

Once you start ramification, THEN put it in a bonsai pot.

See MarkyScott's excellent thread "Ebihara Maples" for how to proceed with the roots.

 

[AlainK]

It developed nicely and will look good in Autumn, but I have too many trees, and I sold it to a member of my club for 60 € (US $ = 66.735)

Could have had at least double the price, but I'm no businessman, and I'm glad that a new member has got at tree that he likes...



Also gave root cuttings.

Now I have none left and can concentrate on other species