fredman
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Ah...and the 2 cousins. 2 different dissectums fused together...
Spring has Sprung downunder
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Shibui
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I have very few named cultivars but JM seedlings can give me the full range of colours.
This is a seedling from a dwarf form of JM. It retains the small form and has great Spring foliage too.
One of the older Japanese maple bonsai. Seed grown from standard 'green' JM
Seedling from 'Coral bark' AKA 'Sangu Kaku' Beautiful Spring leaf colour and red twigs through Winter.
Some trays of seedlings:
Regular 'green' Jm seedlings
Mixed batch: Quite a range of colours and leaf shapes.
Selected red leaf seedlings. Many of these are only red in Spring. Leaves gradually turn greenish as they mature. Note also some variety of leaf shapes too.
This is a seedling from a dwarf form of JM. It retains the small form and has great Spring foliage too.
One of the older Japanese maple bonsai. Seed grown from standard 'green' JM
Seedling from 'Coral bark' AKA 'Sangu Kaku' Beautiful Spring leaf colour and red twigs through Winter.
Some trays of seedlings:
Regular 'green' Jm seedlings
Mixed batch: Quite a range of colours and leaf shapes.
Selected red leaf seedlings. Many of these are only red in Spring. Leaves gradually turn greenish as they mature. Note also some variety of leaf shapes too.
Shibui
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Went foraging in the garden for JM seedlings.
Particularly red leaf seedlings and/or deeply cut leaves or interesting looking leaf patterns to grow on for future.
These may change as they mature but I think it's a good place to start searching for interesting new JM forms.
From past experience I know that some red leaf JM turn green through Summer while others have leaves that stay red right through the growing season. I noticed that some seedlings have green cotyledons and others have red cotyledons so I've transplanted some of each to see if there's any correlation with Summer leaf colour.
For those who are interested, these seedlings were mostly just pulled. Some have lots of roots, some just a few. At this stage, soon after germination, I find I can be quite rough with roots. Young seedlings seem to be primed to grow new roots so can survive quite radical root reduction. I guess that's a survival mechanism to cope with pests and diseases attacking small seedlings.
Some stems broke off above the roots so they are planted as cuttings in the propagating bed.
And a couple more JM bonsai as they leaf out.
This is my oldest JM. Picked it up at a club sale around 40 years ago because the trunk had a nice low curve. The upper trunk was then perfectly straight with no taper. After a few years trying to get it to bud low I grafted a new trunk just above the bend. After removing the old trunk a new branch started just below the graft so that lowest branch is the only one growing from the original trunk. Everything above that first branch is the graft.
This year it's flowered profusely.
Anyone got any problems with grafted JM as bonsai?
This one is an attempt to develop a small, natural JM style tree. About 30 cm tall now.
And, finally, a shohin sized JM
Particularly red leaf seedlings and/or deeply cut leaves or interesting looking leaf patterns to grow on for future.
These may change as they mature but I think it's a good place to start searching for interesting new JM forms.
From past experience I know that some red leaf JM turn green through Summer while others have leaves that stay red right through the growing season. I noticed that some seedlings have green cotyledons and others have red cotyledons so I've transplanted some of each to see if there's any correlation with Summer leaf colour.
For those who are interested, these seedlings were mostly just pulled. Some have lots of roots, some just a few. At this stage, soon after germination, I find I can be quite rough with roots. Young seedlings seem to be primed to grow new roots so can survive quite radical root reduction. I guess that's a survival mechanism to cope with pests and diseases attacking small seedlings.
Some stems broke off above the roots so they are planted as cuttings in the propagating bed.
And a couple more JM bonsai as they leaf out.
This is my oldest JM. Picked it up at a club sale around 40 years ago because the trunk had a nice low curve. The upper trunk was then perfectly straight with no taper. After a few years trying to get it to bud low I grafted a new trunk just above the bend. After removing the old trunk a new branch started just below the graft so that lowest branch is the only one growing from the original trunk. Everything above that first branch is the graft.
This year it's flowered profusely.
Anyone got any problems with grafted JM as bonsai?
This one is an attempt to develop a small, natural JM style tree. About 30 cm tall now.
And, finally, a shohin sized JM
I would be very interested in your findings about cotyledons/leaves color correlation.
For a while I've got a thought about American red maple trees...
Just observing the "wild" ones growing along the roads. Some of them right next to each other get nice red leaf color in fall and some not and , then, in spring some of them have really red flowers and some just barely reddish closer to tan color. I wonder if there is a correlation?
Of course fall leaf color is affected by many other factors, but still...
For a while I've got a thought about American red maple trees...
Just observing the "wild" ones growing along the roads. Some of them right next to each other get nice red leaf color in fall and some not and , then, in spring some of them have really red flowers and some just barely reddish closer to tan color. I wonder if there is a correlation?
Of course fall leaf color is affected by many other factors, but still...
Shibui
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I assume you've tagged some of the red flowering trees and a few of the tan ones to see if that correlates to autumn colour? I'll try to tag some of the JM I have identified to see if my guesses are true.
Look forward to your findings.
Look forward to your findings.
Shibui
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October is Azaleas down here.
This pink flower azalea should still be good for a display in Albury on Thursday.
Not sure it will last 2 weeks to Myrtleford show.
The 2 tone pink and the red flowered azaleas have nice flowers but always seems to get petal blight - brown discoloration on some of the flowers.
This pink flower azalea should still be good for a display in Albury on Thursday.
Not sure it will last 2 weeks to Myrtleford show.
The 2 tone pink and the red flowered azaleas have nice flowers but always seems to get petal blight - brown discoloration on some of the flowers.
fredman
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Mate I got this off a Aussie guy on Utube. He said he uses a spray with these constituents in it...to control the fungi that causes it.
Turned out Yates Super Shield (rose spray) has exactly that.
I've had a Satsuki that had blight every year since I had it...like 10 years. The tree eventually started going backwards to.
2 years ago I started a regime with this spray...and say immediate results. This year that Satsuki is full of fat buds.
I'll post a pic of it, for ya soon....
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Shibui
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Thanks. I've tried other fungicides sporadically but not much effect. Maybe that's just because I did not follow up enough.
I'll give the Rose shield a go.
I'll give the Rose shield a go.
fredman
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I found when the flowers open, its already to late to spray to stop the blight....they're already in there.
The best is to do a few sprays during the growing season...and during winter.
Good luck.
