My 'Ben Oki' azalea

Si Nguyen · Apr 10, 2015

Awesome thread! I love reading this over the years. I like how you are so focused on developing your trees. Really show what persistence can create. That's a beauty! I wish I could grow my azaleas like that.

Cypress187 · Apr 10, 2015

Is that straight part bendable maybe? i heared azalea's have soft(er) wood.

armetisius · Apr 10, 2015

lovely

Jester217300 · Apr 10, 2015

Cypress187 said:
Is that straight part bendable maybe? i heared azalea's have soft(er) wood.

Not in the least. Azaleas have extremely brittle wood. You have to wire a juvenile shoot or nothing at all.

They can rot fairly quickly. Maybe that was what was implied by "soft"?

Cypress187 · Apr 11, 2015

Jester217300 said:
Not in the least. Azaleas have extremely brittle wood. You have to wire a juvenile shoot or nothing at all.
They can rot fairly quickly. Maybe that was what was implied by "soft"?

Yeah maybe, i thought that also ment it was easyier to bend.

Brian Van Fleet · Apr 13, 2015

It's raining outside (of course, because it always rains on club meeting days; especially when I have a ton of gear to carry in), so the azalea is hanging out on the porch loaded down and blooming out!

JudyB · Apr 13, 2015

wow, blows my socks off every year...

edprocoat · Apr 13, 2015

Wow, just wow.

ed

edprocoat · Apr 13, 2015

Brian Van Fleet said:
I feed it like all my other trees, Plant-Tone cakes and regular doses of liquid fish fertilizer.

I bet the critters enjoy that too !

ed

Brian Van Fleet · Apr 13, 2015

edprocoat said:
I bet the critters enjoy that too !

ed

Not really. The squirrels actually steer clear of the cakes. But the fish emulsion attracts bees & yellow jackets; so I try to do the fish feed in the evening.

cmeg1 · Apr 13, 2015

Wow looks great!perfect way to brighten up a rain day.

Brian Van Fleet · Apr 14, 2015

Outdoor shot...

Giga · Apr 14, 2015

When I see this, jealousy comes to mind.....

Brian Van Fleet · Apr 16, 2015

Maybe one last shot in some different light...

barrosinc · Apr 16, 2015

that is amazing... seriously.

Brian Van Fleet · Apr 19, 2015

All cleaned up today...

Eric Group · Apr 19, 2015

Just curious... You ever thought about shortening he left pointing section of that smaller trunk? Mushroom it off at about half the height of the larger one maybe?

Wow! Look at all those blooms on the ground! I have a Kurume at home I plan on reworking tomorrow and all of his blooms will be removed then. Thank you for detailing the care of this species so well in this thread!

Brian Van Fleet · Apr 19, 2015

Yeah, the whole thing is getting a bit puffy, and is due for a rather drastic prune job.

barrosinc · Jun 3, 2015

Brian, do you have any idea on what variety of kurume this is?

erb.75 · Jun 3, 2015

how long do you leave the flowers on for usually? can you get it to last the whole summer?

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