Serissa

I managed to get this one repotted today, what do you guys think? The first picture is what I started with, the second is the final product. This particular clump started as just a bunch of cuttings that I had stuck in a pot a few years ago.

John

From my untrained eye, the one branch in the middle that's leaning toward the back (with more light on it) doesn't seem to belong there. Maybe from a different angle it's more cohesive. Overall though, I do like it.

Is March typically when you repot serissa around here? Also, do you bare-root yours? Thanks!

All of the "trunks" lean out from more or less from the center of the pot. If I rotated the pot 180 degrees, the ones in the front now would appear to do the same thing. I'll see if I can find a picture from the top. I think, at least in my warped brain, that is you squint really hard and look at it, it kinda looks like a scrub oak that grows on the sand dunes at the beach.

I just repotted that one on March 15 because it was my birthday and my wife gave me whole day as a Bonsai day (no Honey-dos) and I repotted a bunch of azaleas that day and grabbed this, too. They can be repotted anytime in the spring through the summer. If you repot now, or later, only give it partial sun until it starts putting out shoots again. They grow like weeds all summer. What ever you cut off, stick it in a pot or in the ground, keep it wet, and it will root,

I usually only bare root if I am trying to get nursery soil out of the roots, or if the bonsai soil that it is in has quit draining. If it is just a regular repot, I just pull it out of the pot and trim about have the root mass off of the bottom and a quarter or half off the sides. They have similar roots to azaleas, thin hair-like roots that are very delicate.

John

Looks to have nice small tight foliage like miniature Crape Myrtle. Thanks for sharing, I do not recall seeing many up here in "snow" country.

Grimmy

Pictures of the Repot

Here's some pictures of the roots at repot (March 2014):

They look like buttonwood roots as well. I like the last photo - a nice cold beer when you're all done.

Looks healthy! Also good to see I am not the only one that adds a pint of beer at repot

Grimmy

Actually, it takes a lot of beer to repot bonsai.

Mellow Mullet said:

Actually, it takes a lot of beer to repot bonsai.

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We must have studied under the same Masters It takes even more when I collect a tree it seems...

Grimmy

Here is how it looks today, from the top. Please excuse the sloppy photography, the weather is not very nice today.

John

From that angle and photo it looks like there is a strong possibility of four cascades coming out of there. Just an observation, all things are different in person.

Grimmy

Some more today photos, just from different points of view around the pot.

Shot number four is just stunning in my opinion, thank you

Grimmy