AusBonsai

The mention of search bots reminded me to post this baby up. I went looking for information on growing tibouchina as bonsai during the week, where did I end up? Back here on Ausbonsai!!!!

I happened to be passing a home as a bobcat was loading a heap of stumps into a trailer. As usual, I stopped and enquired what was to become of them, they hesitated and finally admitted they were going to dump the lot in the bush I asked if they could instead drop them at my place... They willingly agreed, tho maybe my very obvious disapproval of their original plans played a part. Anyways, the stumps were mainly huge teatree & melaleuca that did not survive.

This tibouchina did, how I dont know as it had almost nothing in the way of roots on it and was literally just a bare stump. It reshot from everywhere then over the course of summer most of it died back (the north side). I was looking at it during the week and found that white ants have moved into the dead areas, which I wont try & stop as they can do the carving for me. It is approx 25 cm across at the base. Will be a few more years before I consider digging it back up to go into a pot and hopefully by then most of the deadwood will have been consumed.

Matt

I took the axe to the deadwood a couple weeks ago to see what was happening inside, the ants have not been keeping up the work effort & it is still solid as a rock. 3yrs on tho & the live veins have definitely set & the new branching has started to thicken nicely.

I have a stump just like that species I'm trying to c if the leaves will reduce bcuz I reckon the flowers on it would be quite nice web it's is a bonsai

Ok Matt, im gonna put it out there,

Step 1.

Did that big bugger up and pot

Step 2.

Someone buy a carving bit

Step 3.

I bring the GDO600 die grinder around and we carve that lady a new face

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Treecollecter, from what little info is out there the leaves will reduce somewhat. This stump is big enough that leaf size wont be the biggest issue but lifting it

Gareth, You see a lady? ...
I was considering digging to check the roots & move it up the back. Your more than welcome to take it off my hands.

Matt

of course i see lady!!!!!!!!!!!

you have tried to give me that tree once before and the answer is still NO!!!!! lol, but ill happily butcher it with a die grinder

Gareth wrote: Step 2.

Someone buy a carving bit

Step 3.

I bring the GDO600 die grinder around and we carve that lady a new face

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Not too much or you'll end up with an informal joan rivers:

sweet jesus, next project

With extra prompting & wanting to clear all the prebonsai from my front garden, I dug this baby today. It was a tight squeeze but it has been planted in a concrete pot with internal diameter of 50cm, I opted for the concrete pot over plastic for the added weight to counterbalance the stump... Matt

Any chance of an update?

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Ben Thomas wrote:Any chance of an update?

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Not likely as the OP has been banned. However, I can confirm the tree is still alive and progressing nicely and that's the limit of what I can say...