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bonsaiTALK Artisan
Join Date: Jul-2007
Location: Curry County, Oregon
Country: USA
Posts: 103
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Oregon Myrtlewood as bonsai?
I have seen posts from a few people who mentioned that they had Oregon Myrtlewood they were trying to bonsai, but nothing about the results! Do they work out? My question is, will the leaves ever get smaller, or am I stuck with the large leaves?
A few weeks ago I dug one up and chopped the snot out of it (it was 8ft tall and growing in a rhody hedge) and potted it up in a 4gal. pot. Even though there's not a lot of movement in the trunk yet, it has a wonderful burly base about the size of a baseball, tapering up to a trunk about 1 1/2 inches thick. So far I have chopped it down from 8 ft to about 2 ft, leaving the bottom three branches, and so far its doing well. A few buds are breaking where I want them for a new leader and such - eventually I'll chop the existing trunk down to about 6 inches, if it works out! All the roots are below the burly lump, I've scored the bark and used rooting hormone on the cuts to (hopefully!) get some nebari roots! I removed the majority of the old roots, leaving just a few feeder roots. Here's a few pics after the butcherage.
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