AusBonsai

Howzit All,
Just wanted to share with you all my new Chinese Wisteria I got on ebay a few days ago. (http://stores.ebay.com/The-Bonsai-Garden ) To me this is one of the best websites on the internet that carry great Shohin/Mame trees.

-Tim

Very nice buy Tim. Wisterias are known for rotting of trunk when water is insufficient. When the roots are exposed, they can also dry and rot away as well. I lost a few roots for one of my wisterias this way. Keep it well water and it should be fine. One fact is we can't never overwater and over feeding wisteria.
I bought quite a few wisterias on ebay last year as well. The one in the pic was bought bare-rooted for $26AUD and had a base of 6cm and was 1.2m tall. I reduced it to just 35cm high and planted it to be root exposed. It flowered within 3 months in the green house over winter and I have lost a couple of roots through rotting. I watered it well and never got any more root rots for it. I've collected quite a lot of bigger ones from the recent local digging and have many rots due to insufficient watering mainly.

If only that site was based in Australia,
I love the root structure on those, beautiful.

Wow, nice tree Tim, that basal flare is spectacular.!! I can see that tree will give you many years of happiness. I can see you sitting down with a cup of coffee and admiring it.

Good luck

John

Mahalo Kvan for the information about watering and root rot. Also that's a fine wisteria you have there too. Looks like you had a great deal on ebay with that one. I notice that the wisteria is really taking off now after it had recovered from four days in shipping from California.

John and Craig,
Much Mahalo for the comment.

-Tim

gday timmy

this has a nice base for a chinese styled tree, i would let it grow out some and try get the lower trunk to pull out a little to help with taper. hopefully a shoot will pop a little lower on that straight section so you could go back to it and regrow, otherwise it will make a nice broom form tree

remember to style the tree to allow for the racemes of flowers, between the flowers and the overall tree i would be designing it to suit the flowers

Howzit Jamie,
Mahalo for the advice Cuz.

-Tim