Large Tamarind Forest

taipan(deceased)

Hello everyone, This is a Tamarind group grown from seeds started three years ago...

Height from pot rim is 42 inches
Weight 90 kilos (my back will never be the same...)
Age 3 years from seed

11 trees in total.

Happy Growing folks
Tai

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Adrian_Moss

I am jealous....this is a vey nice forest. I've started one myself (maple forest). I will post pics when i get a chance. Indeed happy growing, mi amigo!

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Alasdair

From seed? That just goes to show what a lovely climate you live in. I've been growing alsorts from seed for a similar time frame and they are nowhere near being ready for anything bar sitting in the ground. Curse this cold unreliable british weather.

Al

I didn't mean it, i love the weather, honestly. it's lovely and sunny and warm and oh no. Now i've opened my big mouth and jinxed it. We're not going to get this hot summer we've been promised...

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soonami

I know right 3 years from seed and he's got enough to start a good forest

Anyhow nice forest taipan, thanks for sharing

Bonsaifreak

Taipan:

Great forrest! I have one tamarind in training and I'm still learning it about it but I just love the rough bark in this species. How do you get ramification in your tamarind trees?

Jorge

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taipan(deceased)

Thanks Ado and good luck with the forest man, They're loads of fun...

Much better than single trees I reckon

lol Al, I'm really lucky to have two bonsai masters to show me how to push trees in this climate...1 years growth here is worth 3-4 years in Britain...It's a lot of fun working here with anything green.

Hi Jorge...I knew a Jorge once....Met him in Israel...crazy Basque guy...Wonder what he's up to now?

Anyway this forest was all done by "Lingan technique"... or clip and grow and never wired...

Tamarinds have a very special place in my heart as they close their leaves at night as if going to sleep...

The whole forest looks amazing by torch light at 3.00am when I can't usually sleep...

I often find myself walking round the nursery with the torch...

Anyway happy growing folks

BonsaiMon

Nice forest Tai.. the tamarind was one of my favorites while in Fl. .. moving north killed my forest and large 10" 24"H stock tree. They do not handle a frost.. ( and you're right on with clipNgrow with them.. works well.

just getting settled in here in Va Beach, feeling more comfortable doing tropicals in temperate zone.. hope to add them to my collection once again. The Texas Ebony has similiar characteristics ..

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sauce

Tai you lead a very interesting life, doing bonsai in the nude and walking around with a torch at 3 o'clock in the morning Nice forest planting. A path of light colored stone or sand going through the gap in the center would add to the display I think. Just curious how do you trim these? I have a thornless honey locust, Gleditsia triacanthos inermis with what appears to be the same type of small, opposite leaflets. I would suspect you can prune to shape sorta like a hedge? True?

Bonsaifreak

I have envied Tai's lifestyle myself more than once


I mean, checking out your trees at night with a porch in the middle of a south pacific paradise...can't beat that.

Jorge (as a mater of fact I do have Basque ancestors)

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