In Search Of: Japanese Maple 'Crimson Queen'

Tristessa

do you think that would work on a store bought fruit (forgive me if this is a stupid question, but the plantly ways are still quite beyond my grasp)? the only reason i ask is because i think pomegranates in washington may be quite odd, or maybe there's much more about my climate i don't know. and because matt, you're such a bonsai god =) i feel comfortable bringing it up to you.

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TreeBay

I think you could use a store-bought fruit. You want to be careful not to plant the seeds too deep.

Here are a few links on pom seedlings.

look under "propagation" here:
http://www.tropical-seeds.com/tech_forum/fruits_anon/pomegranate.html

or here:
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_MG056

or here:

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/pomegranate.html

GENERAL INFO:

http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/envirohort/factsheets3/fruithome/NOV90PR3.HTML


here's a fun site on tropical fruits in general:

http://www.aloha.com/~ritt/2/common.htm

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Brian

Ebay sure has quite a few listings of pomegranate seeds

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Tristessa

fumbling though the nursury:

i came across a crimson queen maple grafted, really short, like 16 inches right now (which is short compared to all the grafts i've seen thus far) i planted it in the yard with some peat moss. i don't want to use this one for my bonsai, because it's still bare up to about 14 inches, and anything that would grow below there would be a green maple of some sort. can i grow cuttings from what i have of the crimson queen at the top? and if so, what would be my best bet on having them work?

TreeBay

Yes you can. You're going to need bottom heat and some pretty high ambient humidity, as well as Dip N Gro or hormex as a rooting hormone to spur things along.

If you don't have a mist house handy, you might look at something like the #8033 hotbed propagator at ***CHARLEY***, which you'll find in their propagation folder.

The bottom heat promotes root growth and the high humidity keeps the cuttings from dying while the roots strike.

I would select the most succulent growth you can find and cut it about 1/3 inch beneath one node at a slight angle angle. A grafting knife is ideal. Then dip in rooting hormone and bed it down in something very well draining, such as perlite and put it in the humidity dome. It shouldn't need watering very often, maybe once a week. Water very gently and let it drain a bit before putting it back into the minigreenhouse. You don't want any standing water.

Sometimes cutting back the leaf surface area to maybe 25% with scissors is helpful because it reduces transpiration from the leaf surfaces.

I'll be trying an 8033 with some Japanese Maple cuttings, so perhaps we can compare notes? In addition to the Crimson Queen we discussed, I have some Arakawa (rough bark maple and shishigashira

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