SeanS
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Here's my entry, a Celtis Africana
My girlfriend gave me a Bonsai Starter Kit for Christmas last year which consisted of 2 pots, pruning shears, some wire, soil and 2 types of indigenous seeds, one being Celtis Africana. I planted 3 of the seeds in January and all 3 sprouted.
In April I transitioned them to a pot with some course aggregate, mainly crushed stone. One of them had some die back on the upper part of the young trunk so I snipped the tip when I potted them into the pot. I think because I sowed them so late in the season (January is late summer for us in South Africa) they didn't really go dormant and hung onto their first adult leaves all winter.
In September I planted 2 of them in a raised planter in our garden and the one I had snipped I repotted into the same pot with the same soil. This is it today. It's about double the size of the other 2 so far and there are roots coming out the bottom of the pot after only 2 months since the repot, so it's my entry into the 5 year native contest.
Not sure what I'll do with it yet, for now it's growing.
My girlfriend gave me a Bonsai Starter Kit for Christmas last year which consisted of 2 pots, pruning shears, some wire, soil and 2 types of indigenous seeds, one being Celtis Africana. I planted 3 of the seeds in January and all 3 sprouted.
In April I transitioned them to a pot with some course aggregate, mainly crushed stone. One of them had some die back on the upper part of the young trunk so I snipped the tip when I potted them into the pot. I think because I sowed them so late in the season (January is late summer for us in South Africa) they didn't really go dormant and hung onto their first adult leaves all winter.
In September I planted 2 of them in a raised planter in our garden and the one I had snipped I repotted into the same pot with the same soil. This is it today. It's about double the size of the other 2 so far and there are roots coming out the bottom of the pot after only 2 months since the repot, so it's my entry into the 5 year native contest.
Not sure what I'll do with it yet, for now it's growing.