Smoke
Ignore-Amus
I don't have a lot of older photo's of this tree but it started as a cutting in 2006. It grew in a half gallon plastic milk jug with the bottom cut out and full of pumice sitting on a water tray. The top of the jug had akadama to keep it from drying out. It grew pretty well on the bottom but the top never quite developed like I wanted. It had some bad branching and some long shoots that I allowed to elongate too much.
In 2012, I though I would put it on a rock. I used bubble wrap as an experiment, thinking the wrap would keep pressure on the roots and push them with force against the stone and into the crevices.
It grew like that for about three years. Last winter in Jan of 2014 I took it out of the pot to see what I had. The damn rock fell right out. So much for bubble wrap. Epic fail. I put it into the Bunzan pot and worked over the canopy hard last year. Wire hard pruning and constant pinching.
In 2012, I though I would put it on a rock. I used bubble wrap as an experiment, thinking the wrap would keep pressure on the roots and push them with force against the stone and into the crevices.
It grew like that for about three years. Last winter in Jan of 2014 I took it out of the pot to see what I had. The damn rock fell right out. So much for bubble wrap. Epic fail. I put it into the Bunzan pot and worked over the canopy hard last year. Wire hard pruning and constant pinching.
