Australian Brush Cherry W/ Brown Splotchy Leaves???
Can anyone identify what this is???
The bottom of the leaves are not affected, and I don't see any bugs.
Rob
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tapla (mid-Michigan, USDA z5b-6a)
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8 years agoNo, it was just growing normally as a cutting (super vigorous), so I wasn't paying much attention except to water it. When the time came to transplant it is when I noticed. Could it be a nutrition issue? Only the top of the leaf is affected, you cant really see it on the bottom; and the leaves aren't drying out or curling.
I've no idea.Rob
tapla (mid-Michigan, USDA z5b-6a)
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8 years agoWell it does sit on the end of the table nearest my sliding glass door. I try to keep opening that to a minimum. I've been looking at a lot of cold damage pics, and it seems like the leaves appear shriveled, dried or dying. In any case, that would be the best case scenario; it can be corrected.
But, WHOOPS!! I made a MASSIVE rookie mistake. I've talked about this before, I wanted to try and shape a tree like the one I admire at the Bonsai Nursery.
So I wired the trunk and inserted an 18" chop stick into the soil and went to work. Then, Stupid Stupid Stupid me (knowing better), I began wrapping and bending the tree around the chop stick The WRONG WAY; and before it registered in my brain - "SNAP"!!!!
Before...
After...
I tied a cotton strap around it as a band aid. And who knows? If it survives; the break might become a point of interest on the trunk. (Fingers crossed)
Rob
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoOk, how's that look? Or I could give it a little different movement.
Robtapla (mid-Michigan, USDA z5b-6a)
8 years agoI'd like to see a little additional gentle movement in the small branch you wired. The reason is, movement usually gets more pronounced toward the tree's apex. Since the first notable movement is only a couple of inches above the soil, you should have movement, even if not pronounced, in the smaller branch within that approximate distance. Lacking movement, that small branch will draw your eye because of its straightness, unless the tree is grown from this point in time forward as a formal upright or a slant style with a straight trunk.
Looking ahead, one could envision the entire trunk above that wired branch moving left as sacrificial. The first small branch off the left-moving wired branch could act as the temporary leader and the branch growing opposite of it could be the first branch on your tree. If you decide to do that, you would prune that branch back to 2 leaves. That done, all of the left-moving wired branch beyond that little opposite pair of branches we're discussing as the temporary leader and first branch would also be sacrificial.
Green = wire some movement into this branch
Yellow = sacrificial
Red = your new temporary leader - wire it more upright - it will grow faster
Blue = the first branch on your tree. This is the one to cut back to 2 leaves to slow it down - so the new temporary leader (opposite it) becomes dominant.
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7 years agoUPDATE - Well it's been 5 months, and my Brush Cherry has come quite a way. I've wired it 2 additional times to get that spiral effect. It got plenty tall.
It look's alright, but this was basically an experiment. I'm going to prune it back hard.
This is the branch Al suggested I wire up.
But now I have a few options to choose from.
I figure that I can go anywhere from the first to the fifth branch.
My Mom really hates the sacrificial part of the process. :-(
Rob
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7 years agoEugenia pre-bonsai - same as yours - a start from a tree I take care of for a 94 year old friend who still has a number of bonsai.
Last year after spring pruning ^^^
Took the top off and covered the sacrifice branch with a paper towel. ^^^
This year before spring pruning ^^^
Today, after spring pruning - a front selected. ^^^ It's been chopped 3 times to build taper. Notice how I changed the planting angle? Plants with lots of trunk movement shouldn't rise out of the ground vertically and then transition to a sinuous trunk. They should come out of the ground at an angle. This will be the last year for the sacrifice branch as it will go in a pot soon for finer ramification and scars (from removing the sacrifice branch) don't heal quickly in small pots.
Next repot I'll change the planting angle again, I think. Looks like about 20º. I wish you could get a better sense of branch placement. It looks all cluttered up, but there is lots of room between the finer branches and branch structure ion this tree (partly because it back-buds so profusely) is excellent. Those chops make a big difference in the taper, yes?
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7 years agoUpdate - So here's my Brush Cherry about 9 months since my last post, and getting ready for the next hard chop.
The trunk is coming out at an angle; and will work with whichever branch I decide to keep.
Rob
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