Truncheon cuttings

[kcpoole]

Wow Neli, they are some thick cuttings! Don't worry, every workshop or meeting I go to, I leave with a bag full of cuttings, I can't help myself! I now have a pocket in my bonsai bag just for a spare bag, because I always end up leaving with that bag filled with cuttings

Your garden looks great! I wish I had the room for that many cuttings! I'd have thousands too

thankyou for sharing!!

Darling, I bought the next door plot to keep all cuttings and messy things....

Now that is dedication and commitment!

Thanks for posting Neli

Ken

[Moraceae]

Wow! Thank you for sharing this Neli, I didn't think that rooting cuttings so large would be so viable - thanks for enlightening me

Now it's time to go and find some nice fat fig branches!

Cheers,
Rob

[Neli]

I must say I'm intrigued by your methods and situation there. Do you have a gardener to assist you?

I have 5 gardeners...I would not manage alone.Plus a cook and maid. Every body has gardeners/maids here....even the poor have some kind of servants...They bring a relative from the village...or their young children.
I have one in charge of my bonsai...and one of the koi...but they do other things also. The one for the bonsai does all the concrete work also.
My gardeners have been with me for a long time. I have even bought them plots and build them houses. (but that I am the only one that has done) They are like my family.

[Neli]

Wow Neli, they are some thick cuttings! Don't worry, every workshop or meeting I go to, I leave with a bag full of cuttings, I can't help myself! I now have a pocket in my bonsai bag just for a spare bag, because I always end up leaving with that bag filled with cuttings

Your garden looks great! I wish I had the room for that many cuttings! I'd have thousands too

thankyou for sharing!!

Darling, I bought the next door plot to keep all cuttings and messy things....

Now that is dedication and commitment!

Thanks for posting Neli

Ken

Ken hoarders need lots of space...and it is a good investment. One day when I am gone it will have probably much higher value. Plots in good areas for the last few years have been doubling value in 2 years...

[Neli]

Wow! Thank you for sharing this Neli, I didn't think that rooting cuttings so large would be so viable - thanks for enlightening me

Now it's time to go and find some nice fat fig branches!

Cheers,
Rob

Rob That is why I posted it. I want people to see how easy it is, and not to fear to do it...If it does not root you dont have much to loose, but if it does lots to gain.
I wanted you to try root....try many...if one does not root another one will.
Remember figs are best done when it is warm.
This fig was dug in April...I went to check the date...but to be sure better do it when it is warm...or if you have nothing to loose try even now...is it not too cold in winter for figs in your area?

[Mount Nasura]

Thanks Neli, Very different to here, really inspired to try larger cutting, however I do also ask neighbours about trees and cutting ect! Looking forward to updates.

[Neli]

Thanks for sharing Neli, that's a whole lot of cuttings you've got going on! I'll show my wife the pics and maybe she won't complain as much about my cutting habit.

Have you tried any leaf reduction or bonsai techniques on the bauhinia? I've been thinking about trying one. I've seen a white-flowered one with smaller leaves too. The flowers are so beautiful, it would make a striking bonsai in full flower.

I have not tried the bauhinia for leaf reduction. It is still in the packet...butt it has grown so much...if I was not chopping it...it could have been 4m tall. I want to grow/fatten a leader first...and make it a big tree just in case it does not leaf reduce.
If you can get it Bauhinia nataliensis is very cute...it has white flowers and tiny leaf. let me see if I have a picture of one.
I could not find a picture but it very very nice. White flower.
simlar to this

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This one is tomentosa...I have one in the ground leaf is 1-2cm unreduced in the ground.:

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[Neli]

Wonderful Posting Neli,
All good, but the one I'm most intrigued by is your attempt to grow casuarinas from cuttings.
We don't have much success with that particular species over here..maybe I should've said "I" instead of "we".
Will watch with interest..
Cheers.......Brian

Which ever cutting I have put in from casuarina, they have all grown...especially the small ones. The big ones I planted a month ago but they look green. Not too sure yet if they are growing...
I have planted casuarina in the ground. It grew from 1cm trunk to 5+ in one year. I bent it crazy ans the one I did not bend I airlayered.
Funny thing is that the one I chopped had no branches low on the trunk and the lower portion that remained in the ground died...while the cuttings are green. I did not put anything on the chop...but the other one I chopped is OK>
I have casuarina That I put a brick over a branch to bend it and it is rooted now just touching the ground.
Here is one I bent in the ground, and is airlayered on top.

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I have never seen a tree that grows so fast.
I am actually very surprised that yours did not grow...I plant mine in sieved washed river sand...coarse...I think I have almost 100 % success with small cuttings. I shall take pictures for you today of the rooted ones.