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Originally Posted by vince
you should cut off all flowers, this should promote more growth, new leaves, and this has worked as well.
So, i applied this rule to the Serissa.
Any thought's about this? Cheers.
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There is logic in that, flowering always takes away from growth, so it makes sense. But serissa is a vigorous grower even with flowering, so I don't bother removing them.
Unless one already has a large trunk, I believe that one should let the suckers close to the main trunk grow freely. The new trunks will eventual fuse with the old one and create a larger trunk and nebari. I have a large clump of serissa and it grows in a 3 gallon nursery pot. The reason is that I want to create a large root structure, and every year I raise the plant by an inch, so that the roots get more and more exposed (it's hard to do this in a small bonsai pot, serissa is notoriously slow to create a large trunk). Eventually the mass of fused roots become the trunk, adding character to the plant.
I have an easier time than some other people, here in Southern California serissa can be grown outdoors year-round, so mine grows like weed and became a large bush pretty fast.