Stella
Mame
Our Climate - warm and dry
summer ranging from 28-45 Celsius - Oct - April
winter ranging from 3-15 Celsius - May - July ( the very cold season is really very short. also no snow)
spring and autumn about non existent - goes from cold to hot in a day or 2 and other way around
I'm is a summer rainfall area
Tree:
Deciduous tree
Native to large parts of Southern Africa (south of the sahara down to us in South Africa)
Sapling that sprouted in my garden
June 2020 my 6 year old did a dramatic trunk chop - luckily and thankfully at a decent and usable height (I would have loved the trunk chop to be a higher up)
Aug 2020 we dug it up and got into a training pot.
did some wiring to new shoots over the growing season and sadly my new leader shoot died.
Now i have a nice trunk with 2 branches - I am really hoping that I get some nice new buds this spring so I can have a leader branch
We are heading into winter now, so no work will be done in the next 3 months.
It will not be repotted this coming spring and I want to mostly leave it to grow this season, and just remove unwanted shoots
Pictures to follow
summer ranging from 28-45 Celsius - Oct - April
winter ranging from 3-15 Celsius - May - July ( the very cold season is really very short. also no snow)
spring and autumn about non existent - goes from cold to hot in a day or 2 and other way around
I'm is a summer rainfall area
Tree:
Deciduous tree
Native to large parts of Southern Africa (south of the sahara down to us in South Africa)
Sapling that sprouted in my garden
June 2020 my 6 year old did a dramatic trunk chop - luckily and thankfully at a decent and usable height (I would have loved the trunk chop to be a higher up)
Aug 2020 we dug it up and got into a training pot.
did some wiring to new shoots over the growing season and sadly my new leader shoot died.
Now i have a nice trunk with 2 branches - I am really hoping that I get some nice new buds this spring so I can have a leader branch
We are heading into winter now, so no work will be done in the next 3 months.
It will not be repotted this coming spring and I want to mostly leave it to grow this season, and just remove unwanted shoots
Pictures to follow