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Author:  Brendan [ 10 Jul 2015, 17:08 ]
Post subject:  Lonicera on flint
Hi All

I am going to try and post a progression over a year of this lonicera cutting. I am mostly doing this to see if I can get the hang of Flickr - please bear with me.

This is what I pulled out of the pot where some cuttings had been shoved a year earlier.

ImageL2 by BrendanR2012, on Flickr

I'll try find the post where I first mentioned this one.

Cheers

Brendan
Author:  Brendan [ 10 Jul 2015, 17:10 ]
Post subject:  Re: Lonicera on flint
This is it on the left


ImageL3 by BrendanR2012, on Flickr
Author:  Brendan [ 10 Jul 2015, 17:11 ]
Post subject:  Re: Lonicera on flint
Tea light for scale

ImageOn the left (tea light for scale) by BrendanR2012, on Flickr
Author:  Brendan [ 10 Jul 2015, 17:14 ]
Post subject:  Re: Lonicera on flint
Here it is potted up the first time

On the left.

Thandi hates that photo - says her bum looks huge.

ImageIMAG0385 by BrendanR2012, on Flickr
Author:  Brendan [ 10 Jul 2015, 17:18 ]
Post subject:  Re: Lonicera on flint
And here it is a year later:

Image20150710_165229 by BrendanR2012, on Flickr

I put the roots through a bunch of holes in this piece of flint I found on Brighton beach. The Lonicera grew right through the rock. There is a central hole, and also second one on the side, and I coaxed a root through the smaller hole as well as rather brutally forcing the main trunk through the bigger hole.
Author:  Brendan [ 10 Jul 2015, 17:19 ]
Post subject:  Re: Lonicera on flint
This was buried completely in the pot for the summer and autumn, and in winter last year I pulled it out and potted it up. I have done nothing to it since I repotted it.

Image20150710_165229 by BrendanR2012, on Flickr
Author:  Brendan [ 10 Jul 2015, 17:19 ]
Post subject:  Re: Lonicera on flint
Image20150710_165225 by BrendanR2012, on Flickr
Author:  Brendan [ 10 Jul 2015, 17:27 ]
Post subject:  Re: Lonicera on flint
The aerial root has to go. It emerged as a possibility after the initial repot. I did not cut it off but rather just left the wierd skinny and weak root either to grow or die off. It grew and hardened into the aerial root you see here. I was not sure whether it might fit the image. I think not.

ImageThe root in the hole. by BrendanR2012, on Flickr
Author:  Brendan [ 10 Jul 2015, 17:30 ]
Post subject:  Re: Lonicera on flint
ImageThe root in the hole. by BrendanR2012, on Flickr
Author:  Brendan [ 10 Jul 2015, 17:31 ]
Post subject:  Re: Lonicera on flint
I think I like Flickr!
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