Flowering Quince Nursery Stock
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- Опубліковано 20 лют 2020
- Initial work on oridinary nursery stock flowering quince to get it ready for bonsai life.
Some root work, a little wiring and pruning, and some tips on using this lovely little flowering plant as bonsai.
I'd leave the root, looking at it, I had a vision of seeing a doorway leading into the tree. It's a very individual feature
Great video & definitely great info on Quince, I love these trees. Thank you & I hope you all enjoyed the chocolate fountain 👍
All my quinces are doing awesome. Getting ready to pop!
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Sweet,I'll look forward to seeing them in bloom
That double apex will look great !! Good video🤓
Almost 3,000 subs. Wow! Congrats.
I think I was # 300 something. One of my favorite channels. Keep the great vids coming. Have fun this Spring. Thanks
I always enjoy hearing from you, Matt! Spring will be fun for sure. Like usual, I’ve set myself up with more work than I feel like I can handle, but I always find a way through it.
Oooh nice!! I just ordered 3 diff cultivars of quinces/chaenomeles. My first ones, excited to try them out.
And also 2 more ume, haha.
Good hint on determining when the branch might crack.
Keep keep the root and make it part of the landscape
It’s part of it now. I’m hoping to see sprouts from it this coming spring.
This video was super useful to me! I have a quince that I purchased back in april that I've been trying to figure out what to do with.
Glad to hear it! Quince lend themselves quite nicely to unusual forms. Plenty of room to get creative.
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Do a root over rock with it. Nice trees and vids, thanks for sharing.
I haven’t shown a detailed root over rock yet, have I?🤔. Guess I’ll have to do something about that😏.
An interesting video. I have been thinking about doing a quince for a couple of years for similar reasons to yourself ie the spring blossoms. This has inspired me to go shopping around the plant barns. Also I hope the chocolate fountain went well. I was starting to get ‘edgy' as the video continued after your alarm. I was thinking - the kids are going to come barging in any moment. Go .. Go .. don't disappoint them. And I was also thinking about your long 40” drive. All the wrong stuff to think about when watching a vid. Cheers for that. Craig
The kids had a great time! No worries 😉
I would cut if off and use it as a root-cutting, lol
It would certainly make an interesting one at that!
great job on bonsai, but chocolate marshmallows as breakfast?!
I would make the taproot a feature on top of the soil. I would style it as a doorway leading in to the tree :)
I like the doorway idea😀
Either cut the root off or use it as a key feature in Neagari style which would be a fun variation on the clump styles these ultimately want to be. "Cool" quirky roots aren't that cool if you want a quality tree with quality nebari. As you probably know quince are very willing backbudders and radical movement can be imparted from unlignified stems.
I’m glad you brought up quality in the discussion. That is important to many people. To many others, the experience of an engaged imagination triggered by unique shapes can be what makes them fall in love with a bonsai. The other quince I’m working on have other attributes that can be brought out and several have a great start to the traditional nebari flare that many prize. The driving force for me in what I do with Bonsai is to let the tree show me what it has and enhance features to create experiences. I do that because I enjoy it as opposed to because it’s what I’m “supposed” to do. My hope is that people who do bonsai also do it as an expression of themselves. Enjoy the journey!😊
I’d leave the root out of caution and curiosity. It is, indeed, special. Might hurt the quince to cut it before more fine roots are present, and it can be removed later if it ultimately gets on your nerves. To have it sticking up out of the soil and thicken with age could actually prove to be a very fine character trait of the tree. Id bind it tightly with a piece of rubber tubing and leave it for three years so that both sides of the upside-down “U” self-graft and become a big lump. It’ll eventually be a fat wooden lump with patina sticking up from the soil. Honestly, I think that flaws like that are what makes bonsai great.
I like your thinking🤔.
I enjoy a Bonsai image that demands attention like that.
This tree, and the way you initially styled it really reminded me of a Gingko tree I set. I think I have a different cultivar of quince with a wildly different feel, so maybe less directly pertinent. I always enjoy your pov though😎
Plants like this are fun to work with and reward your efforts with flowers. Quite nice of them, ehh?
I'd make that square root into a Tori gate :)
Good imagination!
Great video. What time of year is best for root worker pruning, and can you do both together? I am in NorCal.
Root work is best done just as a period of strong root growth is starting. There can be several times of the year when that happens depending on local climate. In Western Washington I do root work in late fall or early spring. Both are times when fresh root tips are easily seen when a rootball is removed from the container. If you are coastal NorCal, root work season is in full swing there now. Central Valley NorCal is nearing the end of root work time or could even be already past the ideal time depending on the tree.
Very good video. I am a total beginner, but I have a Toyo-Nishiki growing in my garden, very undisciplined growth. I am thinking of trying to bonsai a cutting. Any advice on what size of cutting would root best? Is early spring a good time to start? Would it be such a bad thing to cut off the thorns while working with the plant? The mature branches don't have thorns anyway.
Cutting thorns is fine. It makes the stems easier to handle. Cuttings from current year’s growth are a little easier to root, but thicker hardwood cuttings can root as well. Try several that are less than the thickness of a pencil in spring to start with. Maintain humidity with a bag or something similar over them until they start to produce extension growth. If you have a way to provide gentle warmth to the bottom of the pots, then the new roots will form well. Something like a heat mat for seedlings.
I take it off, if I’m looking forward bonsai tree. Thank you
I’m hoping to see branches growing from it this year.
Good morning! Question...can you use root cuttings from a silver birch?
There are sources that state that it is possible to propagate by root cuttings. Softwood cuttings of twigs seems to be the preferred method, but may as well give root cuttings a go too. Interesting shapes that way. Good luck.
Bonsai Echo thanks I’ll give it a shot!
Nice video! I've just purchased a quince "Pink Lady" - it's coming to the end of summer here in the UK. Would now be a good time to be doing this work or should I wait until when all the leaves have fallen or even when buds start to show in Spring?
Some wiring and light trimming would be ok before the end of August. It would be a very sketchy time to do root work right now. Autumn root work is possible if Good winter protection is available. No hard freezes right after root cuts if at all possible. Spring is a better time for harder branch and root cut backs.
@@BonsaiEcho Thanks. If you were to thicken up your quince how would you go about it?
Ba Bu Place in larger container or in the ground for a few years and let it grow freely.
Can quince flower plant be grown in FL zone 10a?
Generally will be in good health in zones 5-9. May start to see issues a zone or more outside that range. It’s worth a try.
When is it best time to prune or repot to bonsai? I just bought mine with flowerings. Love the flowers but have no idea how to care for them
Spring before new leaves appear is a good time to repot. Pruning can be done at different times of the year depending on the goals. There is a huge variety of strategies to use when pruning. Far more than can be covered effectively in this format.
@@BonsaiEcho Can you do more video on japanese quints or bonsai methods?
@thanh-thuy9453 I rarely make videos anymore, so it isn’t likely that I’ll have something to see in that regard for some time.
@BonsaiEcho Hi again, should I wait until next spring to cut suckers that is growing from the root 3 and 6 inches away from base when I repot?
@@thanh-thuy9453 If you do not want the suckers to be part of the design, remove them now and anytime they appear again.
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