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One callistemon become two
Posted: February 28th, 2012, 10:55 am
by Steve Warren
I collected the bottlebrush in September 2011. It was placed in the ground to recover, but after 6 weeks and against advice from members I removed it from the ground, cut it in half and planted the two halves into a grow box.
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I am a little unsure how to style these trees. I have looked at other callistemon on this site and others but I am struggling to see where to go with these two.
Does anyone have any suggestions.
Regards
Steve W
Re: One callistemon become two
Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:59 pm
by Craig
great work Steve, they both look very nice, i'd be inclined to grow them for a year or so, pinching and trimming the long shoots to encouage back budding . Try and get alot more shoots/branches on the tree and then look at styling, that'd be the best option...
Re: One callistemon become two
Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:31 pm
by bodhidharma
Way to late now but you could have V cut where they were joined and through them together to make a nice twin trunk.
Re: One callistemon become two
Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:40 pm
by Steve Warren
bodhidharma wrote:Way to late now but you could have V cut where they were joined and through them together to make a nice twin trunk.
Now thats the sort of suggestion I needed last time I posted it soon after collection. Maybe I could glue them back together. However I must say that I am still happy with the two little trees that I have. I will keep pinching away for the next 10 Months and then would like to pot them up individually to try and concentrate on a style for each of them.
Thanks again
Steve W