Weeping cherry

alangs1

Has anyone ever done a weeping cherry tree as a bonsai? If so how did it work, how did you have to wire it, how do you prune it before it ever goes in a pot? all info would be nice

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jonesmc77

I've never bonsai'd one but I do have a double weeping cherry in the backyard of my investment home. I purchased it for about $80 and would be afraid to try to train it. I'm too green but they're beautiful trees!

bisjoe

Weeping cherries are grafted onto non-weeping stock at about 5' high. If you look at one closely you can see where all the brachches were grafted at the apex.

A trunk chop on a nursery tree will remove the weeping branches.

I haven't tried it, but my suggestion is to start with a less expensive nursery
cherry with a good trunk and nebari, then chop to the desired height and graft all around the cut with stock from a weeping cherry in your garden or a friend/neighbor's.

The next problem is getting them to bend down from the graft in umbrella fashion. Nature/gravity takes care of that on full sized trees, you might have to wire the grafting stock ahead off time so it has the bend in it already when you graft.

BonsaiManNJ

In theory, you could train the weeping scion while on the stock, and then air layer it off. Tho I don't know how well cherry air layers

anttal63

great idea bisjoe the other thing to do is air layer beneath the graft at the desired trunk height.

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ElGringo

They can be done, although if using a tourniquet don't use copper wire, as it's poisenous to them (and probably other Prunus sp. too)

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