Mame Cascade Elm?

bonsaial1

I have this small elm that was without a home. I thought it might be a good candidate for a single tree in a pot but I was not happy with the branches. The tree came out of a saikai that was mixed with hackberries. This elm had no place to go.

I decided that after turning it over and around about 25 times that the best option might be to layer it off and make a cascade tree out of it. I like cascadeing elms and think they make wonderful trees in any configuration.

What made me want to go the cascade route was that the trunk had a good kink in it at the first branch. By making it a cascade it will be a much better tree due to the fact that the trunk lends itself better to this configuration and makes a much better cascade than upright tree.

All the pictures below are pretty self explanatory. I used rooting hormone gel on the Q-tip and the tree is planted in sand.

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bonsaial1

The bark came off very easily due to the bark floating on a layer of sap right now. The tree in the pot all ready for additional training while the tree is continually shaped. Should be ready for a pot in about 90 days.

Cheers, Al

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Larry

Very neat! Is this an example of ground layering?

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BunjinEnt

Cool, Al.

I have an elm of similar dimension. Like to see how it turns out.

-Wm

bonsaial1

Cut the layer off yesterday. It had many roots and they were distributed evenly around the entire trunk. One of the cool benifits is the flare that I have been able to achieve with my new method. It is still experimental and I need a few more species to try it on before I go public with it. I figured 90 days but was ready in 60.

The tree was planted up in a Japanese pot. I cut the top back hard to induce more budding at the portion that will be used to build a formal crown on the cascade. Hope you like it.
Al

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plant_dr27

Nice work Al, I really like it! I'm on the edge of my seat to find out what your experimental rooting method is.

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jeremy_norbury

Damn that thing rooted quickly!

Nice idea.

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Larry

Cool, good job,looks really good!

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jeremy_norbury

Al

I completely missed the fact there was something experimental about the rooting method. There was nothing obvious from the photos.

Personally I don't care about the success rate with other species Al, just tell us what you did with this one :-).

I'm most likely to try it on Chinese Elm anyway since I have a whole garden full of the damn things....

Jerry

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