Pitoon
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I had some cuttings that were getting ready to flower, and thought they would look good potted up in a mame pot.
Mame Azalea
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vp999
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Cute! Would they just root from cutting in bonsai soil ?
Pitoon
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All my cuttings are rooted in Napa 8822. These particular cuttings were then moved into 2.5in pots with peat/sand/perlite mixture once they rooted to get them to grow more roots over the winter. Then bare rooted and potted back into monto clay in the mame pot.
These two are actually not related and have different colors and sized flowers. I'll post pics once they fully open. Not fully sure if the taller one will make it as the stem cracked in two different places while i was styling it hence why you see the cut paste.
I have several more getting ready to bloom. I might pot those up as well.
vp999
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Thank you so much!
Pitoon
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Planted three more today. I'm looking forward to see them bloom.
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Here's a group shot so. I have some white that might bloom, I'll probably pot up a few of those as well.
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This one finally opened today. Looks really nice. I'm curious to see what two or three flowers opened would look like.
Pitoon
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So now I have two that have two flowers each. I like them alot, but mame bonsai are a lot of work. I have to water them several times a day. I also have white and peach that might bloom, I'm trying to catch those at the right moment to pot up as well.
Let me know what you guys think.
Let me know what you guys think.
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Three flowers now 
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Single hose-in-hose pink cascade
Pitoon
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Here's probably my last 2 mame azaleas for this year as I've run out of mame pots.....20 mame azaleas total. I've already cross polinated 5 of them, so now waiting for the seed pods to form.
These 2 are the ramapo cultivar. They produce the prettiest purple flowers I've ever seen on an azalea. They are naturally a dwarf azalea as well which will work well for mame bonsai as the leaves stay small. I planted a total of 45 cuttings today looking forward to growing these out.
These 2 are the ramapo cultivar. They produce the prettiest purple flowers I've ever seen on an azalea. They are naturally a dwarf azalea as well which will work well for mame bonsai as the leaves stay small. I planted a total of 45 cuttings today looking forward to growing these out.
Pitoon
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That's a nice one! You have more pics of it, the trunks looks good. Everything dealing with mame is more difficult.....the wiring, watering, substrate, pots. I water mine about 4 times daily, but they are addicting. I need to find some more mame pots. I have a bunch of JM and JBP I would like to pot up as well.
Thanks. It has a thread I started in 2016 here.
https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/dwarf-rhodie.22548/
Pitoon
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I think that has some real good potential after you let it grow out some. What's your plans with this one? I would start some wiring now before the branches harden up and set.This was a large cutting I didn't think would take. It's technically mame but, not really bonsai yet. More of a science fair project
Well, I'll have to make some now as I really didn't expect it to live. Have to let it finish those 3 flowers just because. Then I'll remove the rest of the buds and see what I have for roots under there. Agreed on the wire for sure. Thanks
Oh and I have a few nice @sorce pots to choose from if it has some good roots growing.
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Pitoon
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Got some more pots in today. Planted another Ramapo and touch it up with some moss.
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Here's the Ramapo that bloomed. The flowers are a bit weak though.
JoeR
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Very nice. Do you sell them? And do you have more Satsuki cultivars? They would be nice additions to the pots of larger compositions/trees
