Hi all,
A while ago i was given a pot with 4 kauri pine in it, over 2m tall & at the time no idea what they were i cut them back to the lowest shoot for each. They budded back all over the place so i finally got round to splitting them up into individual pots & shortened to between 15-20cm. Nothing worth taking pics of, just 2-3cm stumps.
I know they are regularly used as indoor hire plants because of how hardy they are, mine are ex hire. Given how much mistreatment they recieved in there former incarnation they should positively jump out of there pots now they are going to be getting better care, feed, water, light.... The leaves are large so will be alot of experimenting over the coming years to see what i can do with them, tho I will still be aiming for a larger size tree. Has anyone used them for bonsai or seen them used?
Matt
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Re: Kauri as bonsai
Hi Matt,
Kauri make huge mats of fibrous roots so should in theory make good bonsai its just hard to imagine being able to create nice foliage pads from them. I would say they would need to be very large formal uprights as they are not trees given to making curved trunks.
Craig
Kauri make huge mats of fibrous roots so should in theory make good bonsai its just hard to imagine being able to create nice foliage pads from them. I would say they would need to be very large formal uprights as they are not trees given to making curved trunks.
Craig
