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| Author: | peapea28 [ 27 May 2012, 13:53 ] |
| Post subject: | traning cutting before taking them |
Hi, Just a hypothetical question as there's a young ish conker tree in my mums garden and I was thinking about taking a young branch next year. Could I start to train the branch I want to take as cutting next year now with wire to get the shape I want or would this be impractical or simply not worth it? Any advice would be appreciated 
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| Author: | Gwen Potter [ 27 May 2012, 13:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: traning cutting before taking them |
In principle, it is feasible but you could waste a lot of time and potentially wire, if ultimately your cuttting (or airlayer) does not work. I don't know about horse chestnut from cuttings. All mine are from conkers or from offshoots from the roots of a parent bonsai. |
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| Author: | don [ 27 May 2012, 14:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: traning cutting before taking them |
I didn't think conkers were very good for bonsai because of the size of the leaves |
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| Author: | Gwen Potter [ 27 May 2012, 14:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: traning cutting before taking them |
Don - I'll go and take a pic of the leaves on mine. They are smaller than the palm area of my quite small hands. |
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| Author: | Gwen Potter [ 27 May 2012, 14:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: traning cutting before taking them |
Here's the link to pix of my horse chestnut. 30 years old from a conker in a neighbour's garden. By no means a good bonsai but for much of its life I didn't know what to do with it but I would never let it go. It's the tree I've had the longest. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mapotter/s ... 917591672/ Leaves small enough ? |
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| Author: | arihato [ 27 May 2012, 14:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: traning cutting before taking them |
Are these small enough? Attachment: CRW_7821A.jpg or these? Attachment: CRW_7822A.jpg But it is true Chestnut is not an easy tree to Bonsai Sorry didn't answer the question; is it useful to train a branch before making a cutting. I would say yes, I do it before I make an airlayer. Sometimes I even train a branch to become a future jin. |
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| Author: | don [ 27 May 2012, 15:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: traning cutting before taking them |
I agree they can be smallish, this is mine that i have just this minute taken but it still has to be a bigish tree to look like a mini conker tree (in my opinion anyway) |
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| Author: | peapea28 [ 27 May 2012, 16:16 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: traning cutting before taking them |
Thanks for the replies Sorry if I sound stupid but what is the difference between a cutting and an airlayer? |
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| Author: | don [ 27 May 2012, 16:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: traning cutting before taking them |
A cutting is where you chop the branch off and put into a pot hoping that it will root. An air layer is keeping it on the existing tree while it grows roots and then chopping it off and potting it. Thats a very basic explanation. |
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