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Hi all,
As the promise to Leatherback, I create this post with the hope of helping whoever wants to make a big cutting on pomegranate. I believe this technique is going to work for other specimens as well. If you have any question, please ask. Besides the cutting technique, one might find the way of obtaining the yamadori specimen for bonsai when one carefully read through below story!
Here we are.
These are big promegranate cuttings. The tree was grown in an old Hispanic nursery garden which was sold to some development company later. On the way to daily work for years, I had always glimpsed the tree and amazed how big it was. It was about 15 foot height and 20 foot width with a lot of red flowers and fruits. In July 2016, the nursery was closed completely. The early morning of August 25, 2016, I drove by that nursery to work as usual, and suddenly I found the demolition workers started working on that property. That time, I knew right away that I had to act to get pomegranate. By the way, that nursery had pine, California pepper, American elm planted in the ground, but I just wanted to get pomegranate. In that afternoon, because I luckily had some free time, I drove back to the nursery and talked to the workers to see if I could get the pomegranate trunks and roots for free. Surprisingly, the team leader said that I could get the trunks but I had to pay for it. Usually the demolition workers wants to get rid off these trees branches so that they don’t have to haul them away. I think that man saw my drooling when I observed the tree closely. It was really big with 3 big trunks.
Because the tree was so big, I would need a chainsaw to cut it down. I agreed to pay for the tree but the workers had to cut it down for me. I showed them how to cut piece by piece. I just wanted to take the trunk closed to ground and some big branches. I actually wanted to get the whole rootage more than anything else, but the worker said that it would need more money for him to dug it out with machine. I wonder if I should pay more money for the rootage. Finally, I said no because I already had quite a bit of pomegranates at home.
The deal was done. Then, I had to asked my friend who had a pick up truck to come and transport the pomegranate pieces. We got about 10 nice pieces of wood. I kept 3 and 7 to my friend.
As soon as they got to my garden on 8/29/18 , I placed them in the cement mix container bought at Home Depot. Then poured the water mixed with vitamin B1 and Rootone. Most of the time I don’t use rootone in cutting, but because these pieces were too big, I did not want to take a chance!
Then I used a large plastic bag to cover them completely. I let them soaked in the fluid almost 20 hours.
If you know someone working in the furniture store, you can ask them for the good quality large plastic bag.
The next day, I started working on these pieces. Please remember, these pieces had no root at all. At first, I prepared the soil for it. The soil content included pumice: mini pine bark with 1:1 ratio.
This was a first piece. Its lower stump diameter were about 12”.
I used reciprocal saw to flat the base as desired and placed it in the plastic container. The pot was placed at the area which received afternoon sun about one hour daily. After water it well, I also placed 2 misty heads into the pot to create the nice humidity environment around the cutting.
The misty heads were faced upward!
And I used the plastic bag to cover the whole cutting and pot.
Thụ Thoại
As the promise to Leatherback, I create this post with the hope of helping whoever wants to make a big cutting on pomegranate. I believe this technique is going to work for other specimens as well. If you have any question, please ask. Besides the cutting technique, one might find the way of obtaining the yamadori specimen for bonsai when one carefully read through below story!
Here we are.These are big promegranate cuttings. The tree was grown in an old Hispanic nursery garden which was sold to some development company later. On the way to daily work for years, I had always glimpsed the tree and amazed how big it was. It was about 15 foot height and 20 foot width with a lot of red flowers and fruits. In July 2016, the nursery was closed completely. The early morning of August 25, 2016, I drove by that nursery to work as usual, and suddenly I found the demolition workers started working on that property. That time, I knew right away that I had to act to get pomegranate. By the way, that nursery had pine, California pepper, American elm planted in the ground, but I just wanted to get pomegranate. In that afternoon, because I luckily had some free time, I drove back to the nursery and talked to the workers to see if I could get the pomegranate trunks and roots for free. Surprisingly, the team leader said that I could get the trunks but I had to pay for it. Usually the demolition workers wants to get rid off these trees branches so that they don’t have to haul them away. I think that man saw my drooling when I observed the tree closely. It was really big with 3 big trunks.
Because the tree was so big, I would need a chainsaw to cut it down. I agreed to pay for the tree but the workers had to cut it down for me. I showed them how to cut piece by piece. I just wanted to take the trunk closed to ground and some big branches. I actually wanted to get the whole rootage more than anything else, but the worker said that it would need more money for him to dug it out with machine. I wonder if I should pay more money for the rootage. Finally, I said no because I already had quite a bit of pomegranates at home.
The deal was done. Then, I had to asked my friend who had a pick up truck to come and transport the pomegranate pieces. We got about 10 nice pieces of wood. I kept 3 and 7 to my friend.
As soon as they got to my garden on 8/29/18 , I placed them in the cement mix container bought at Home Depot. Then poured the water mixed with vitamin B1 and Rootone. Most of the time I don’t use rootone in cutting, but because these pieces were too big, I did not want to take a chance!
Then I used a large plastic bag to cover them completely. I let them soaked in the fluid almost 20 hours.
If you know someone working in the furniture store, you can ask them for the good quality large plastic bag.
The next day, I started working on these pieces. Please remember, these pieces had no root at all. At first, I prepared the soil for it. The soil content included pumice: mini pine bark with 1:1 ratio.
This was a first piece. Its lower stump diameter were about 12”.
I used reciprocal saw to flat the base as desired and placed it in the plastic container. The pot was placed at the area which received afternoon sun about one hour daily. After water it well, I also placed 2 misty heads into the pot to create the nice humidity environment around the cutting.
The misty heads were faced upward!
And I used the plastic bag to cover the whole cutting and pot.
Thụ Thoại
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