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31-May-2007
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bonsaiTALK Craftsman
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Naked Azalea
Last spring I reduced a 4' azalea in a nursery pot to about 18" and placed in the shade to recover. It had a great summer, putting on foilage.
This spring it began to bud out when a severe cold snap hit (It was in an unheated sun room.) The few leaves on it turned black and crispy and I removed them. It has been 4 or 5 weeks since the leaves were removed and there is no sign of new buds. Stems are still flexible and a bark scape shows green. Is it normal for azalea to take this long to bud out or is something wrong? |
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5-Jun-2007
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From my own experience, when a tree is stressed by frost or other outside influenses, it should take the tree at least four to six weeks to get its act together and to start leafing out.... the sun will help if it stays warm....
A lot of my trees lost leaves (about a month ago) from cold spring weather, but are now coming back, since we have had above 70 degree (plus) weather in the last couple of days.... Hang in there... your tree doesn't want to die....
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5-Jun-2007
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Ban Please
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5-Jun-2007
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bonsaiTALK Artisan
Join Date: May-2007
Location: Chattanooga
Country: U.S.
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Really??Come on, dhrishiaishiehiasgi is just trying to help people in pain. 800 Ultram for $270, thats a good deal. I'm willing to go in half with someone on at least a billion. Who's with me? |
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6-Jun-2007
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bonsaiTALK Journeyman
Join Date: Jun-2007
Location: Turin
Country: Italy
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I would take it out of the room, azaleas live better on the outdoors and they love wet soil when in vegetation times so don't let it dry too much.
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6-Jun-2007
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bonsaiTALK Master Chief
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Actually, their disdain for wet "feet" is well noted. They're pretty intolerant of either extreme. They are VERY susceptible to root rot and don't handle drought well at all.
In SC, my mix of lava & pine bark & turface at about 2:1:1 (maybe a little more pine bark than that) has done well for me. I water once a day. I think my mix of 1:1 turface:haydite is going to be a little too water-retentive but it should fall within tolerances.
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7-Jun-2007
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I have had no success with azaleas (although to be fair I've only tried a couple of times, with material that was of questionable vitality at the outset), but I've been told that an outwardly "dead" azalea should be treated as if it were alive at least through the following spring, because apparently dead azaleas (or branches thereof) will often "come back to life" at the start of the next growing season. Sounds like yours might be in such a state.
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