Hibiscus Syriacus (Common Hibiscus) #1

[canoeguide]

Any of you have trimmed and seen wounds close?

My understanding is that wounds close very, very slowly, and my limited experience supports this. I pruned mine back without cut paste this spring, and most of the wounds look like crap. However, I have observed some swelling of the inner bark around some of the cut sites 6 months later - we're talking like a millimeter of rolling cut healing, but I'll take it. In the future, I intend to see just how much cut paste might help.

 

[defra]

Nice to see other people trying this species!
In one of the pics on previous page some leafes show deficiency, mine does that every year when it starts producing flower buds it will dissapear in a couple of days after feeding magnesium or epson salt.

The big wounds do close slowely given there is growth above the wounds @leatherback i am sure i already showed you pictures of that somewere

Also another 2 cents is keep on removing growth in the crotches if you dont it will result in a ugly knob at the branch base.

Eddit:
Heres a picture of the callus rolling in after a season of growth
It only started healing after i grinded the stump i left into this propper wound.

 

[leatherback]

Looks good. Hope mine will do this too. When (time of year) did you make the cut / carving?

 

[defra]

Looks good. Hope mine will do this too. When (time of year) did you make the cut / carving?

With enough growth it slowly will
I did the carving at the end of march at bud break

 

[shinmai]

My past experience is that healing will be faster if you scribe a clean edge to the bark, and then carve the wound space to be slightly lower than the wood outside the wound boundary. Still damn slow, though. This is also one that responds well to the gray Japanese cut paste in the tube, and not putty.

 

[leatherback]

gray Japanese cut paste in the tube

which would that be?

 

[shinmai]

This one...

 

[leatherback]

check

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Thought I had posted on this...



Decent nebari forming

Flowers from earlier... typical pink.


Healing on my other specimen:

Need to clean out the deadwood a little, but the cut is healing. Need to buy some concave cutters.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

End of year. Actually collected seeds from the tree this year. Progeny!

Anyway. Needs a repot.... bad!

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Going full umbrella on this guy. Repot needed in spring.



@Bonsai Nut, can you adjust thread title to "Hibiscus Syriacus (Common Hibiscus) #26"? Just trying to keep my threads here in line with my own database. Thanks!.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Pruned back today.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Today. Not much going on. Interesting bark.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

idk. lol. My records tell me it LOST trunk thickness this year. From .61" to .55".

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Repotted

 

[queenofsheba52]

I have many of these in my yard, from one plant that I got from my grandfather's yard. I find them everywhere LOL. Last fall I dug up a few with interesting trunks that were in the way of other gardening work. I am happy you are trying this species, and I will watch your thread.

Curiously, the one plant I started with -- just a stick back then in 2005-- gives me three differently colored flowers! White with a pink eye, purple, and 'red'.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

They hybridize easily. Im not adding any more but the two I have are from seeds and were two of my earliest trees.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Got another one today.