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18-Dec-2005
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Bonsai Barry
 
Join Date: Dec-2004
Location: Santa Maria, CA
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Any hope for this pomegranate?
I was recently given this pomegranate. I love triple trunks, but these trunks are -- tic-tac-toe- three in a row.
Any suggestions? (Other than letting it grow up a bit.)
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20-Dec-2005
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Bonsai Barry
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Guess not.
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20-Dec-2005
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Enthusiast
 
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Location: Carlsbad, California..coastal desert
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That looks like a "nana", and they grow slower. But you could plant it out and give it time, choosing one of the trunks as the eventual keeper. If you have a lot of time to play with it, you could remove one trunk and then lay the other two on their sides, as a raft planting, wiring up some of the little branches to become eventual trunks.
If you do that, make sure to wire some movement into the trunks you keep, so that they aren't just a "v" formation. Joanie |
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20-Dec-2005
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bonsaiTALK ArchMaster
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The problem is not only the same sized trunks, it's also that they have no movement. They just go up, that's all. To be believeable as bonsai, trunks need to have some interest, movement (twists, turns, etc.)
Pomegranate is noted for its naturally twisted trunks in older field grown material. If I were you, I'd plant this one out in the yard for three or four years. Let it go. Develop the trunks... |
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20-Dec-2005
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Do the "nanas" get twisted trunks? Larger poms do, for sure, although there seems to be a pom that gets very twisty, and others that don't. Little dwarfs seem to just go up, and straight, and are slower growing.
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20-Dec-2005
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bonsaiTALK ArchMaster
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Dont' really know if this one will get "twisty" but there's really only one way to tell and that's plant it out and let it go.
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