my new swampy

[NathanM]

Made a new thread for one of mine, cause it has some progress pics, but I'll post the others in here Sorry to hijack?!?!
This is a big one I got a while ago. Recently cut a fiar bit off. It lost ALL of it's leaves, but now has new ones coming out

And these are a few smaller ones. The two cut off ones I got recently and cut to about 1/3 of original height immediately. The one with two trunks I've had for a little while. It started off straight as an arrow, and I gave it movement. When the second trunk grew, I wired it too. WIll likely jinn it in future as it is too high up for a twin trunk style. It's grown steadily in the few months I've had it.

And finally one that is a little bigger than those small ones. Going to keep it as a formal upright Might cut it off a smidge for the new apex tomorrow

[Jake]

hey nathan the first one is awsome mate!
how does the deadwood go as the soil would be wet alot of the time? i'd think that over time it would start to rot out a bit if not treated with some thing
nice swampys nathan


-Jake

[NathanM]

Yeah man, the first one is great I can't take credit for it though, as I got it from a member of the club. Been thinking about cutting ALL of the branches off and starting again wit it
I'm keeping an eye on the deadwood. Hasn't showed much in the way of rot, but keeping an eye on it

[Jake]

the third one looks like simular stock to mine, did you get it from a nursery on the gold coast bro?
-Jake

[NathanM]

Certainly did man Chris has some awesome swampy stock!! I was mega impressed! When I've got some spare cash, I'm gonna grab one of the big ones
I did some pre-styling work on that one today. removed the top, wired a new leader straight and removed some unnecessary branches/shoots in preparation for wiring in a month or so

[Jake]

nice, yeah those big one's are awsome man theres one massive one in there at the moment! have u seen the literati one his got on the racks?(i love it, ill get a photo next time im there) his got a bunch of smaller stock ones now aswell.
that swampys going to turn out great man its alot straighter then mine, are you working twords a formal upright?

[Grant Bowie]

hey nathan the first one is awsome mate!
how does the deadwood go as the soil would be wet alot of the time? i'd think that over time it would start to rot out a bit if not treated with some thing
nice swampys nathan


-Jake

Swampies don't rot!

Grant

[NathanM]

Awesome, thanks for that, Grant I’d thought that might be the case given their normal habitat.

Jake, yeah, going for a formal upright tree. A bit of inspiration is actually drawn from Grants giant one! It’s awesome
Will be the first formal upright tree I’ve tried. All I had to do to it really was bend the new leader straight. The rest of the tree is very straight. I cut the top off, wired it up and pulled off unnecessary branches, gave it a good feed and I’ll let it go for a bit 

I probably saw the literati one. I spent a lot of time looking at most of them 2 weeks ago I want one of the bigger ones later this year, and probably a few more smaller ones. There were two or three big ones that caught my eye….

[Jake]

grant - thats what i thought but wasn't to sure about it.
all the swampy cuttings i had going got destroyed by the heavy rain early this morning along with one of my figs (my first fig), 5 minutes of extreme rain caused a fair amount of damage i have to repot about 10 trees now