Pseudocydonia sinensis / Chinese quince

[leatherback]

Buds are beginning to swell, while a couple of leaves are still on the branches. I've never seen that, so early :

same here I am afraid

 

[Ruddigger]

Mine is doing the same!

 

[Deleted member 47471]

Lovely tree. I like the color of trunk bark also. Very pretty.

I noticed you were wanting to thicken the tree and create taper along the trunk. Would an Anderson flat or grow box with a tile and organic soil and fert accomplish this? Would that be going from refinement back to development?

 

[AlainK]

I noticed you were wanting to thicken the tree and create taper along the trunk. Would an Anderson flat or grow box with a tile and organic soil and fert accomplish this? Would that be going from refinement back to development?

Maybe...
That's someting I must keep in mind.

 

[AlainK]

As usual, it's the first one to bud out. If they forecast some frost, I'll bring it in tha garage :



'Orange dream' has leafed out (the one I keep as a "patio tree"), but the one in a bonsai pot hasn't. One of my "Little Princess" = 'Mapi-no-machi hime' is showing a few leaves too. 19°C and very sunny last Friday, back to normal today : 4 to 11, and fog this morning. The droplets enhance the cobweb on my 'Sango kaku' :