Auffis 2020-2025 azelea contest entry
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Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
Nice find, welcome to the contest.
Auffi
Seedling
I wasn't prepared when I found it so I had to pot it in the worst muddy garden soil. What do you think is better for the tree? Keep it like this and repot next year with good soil? Get some good soil and repot asap?
Thx, auffi
Thx, auffi
henrykiser
Yamadori
And it only cost one child! Nice find.
Auffi
Seedling
mbunro
Seedling
damn i need start checking out the dumpsters at my local graveyard lol
Auffi
Seedling
The flowers are white. I cut them all at this stage because some people on the internet said you should do it.
Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
So did the graveyard azalea make it?
Auffi
Seedling
That's a good question. I have to admit I couldn't wait (my biggest problem in this hobby) and repotted it in a mix of kanuma, spaghnum moss and garden soil. Thought this is better for the plant. Maybe I was wrong. My other azalea graveyard finds are doing much better. Growing really strong. But my contest entry is not doing anything. There is a lot of green but it's not growing. If you compare the pictures you can see that I found a big base under the soil line and had to cut a few roots to expose that. Maybe I should have left it alone. Maybe I can be lucky if it survives no matter what I did. I hope it pushes through to next year and then again after the big chop ^^
Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
It's still alive so that's a good thing!
Forsoothe!
Imperial Masterpiece
Feed heavily with Miracid and keep in bright shade.
Harunobu
Chumono
Why supplement it heavily when it isn't growing heavily? (and fertilizer isn't food for plants).
This thing is pretty leggy, but it came from a dumpster. It does have so many branches/ramification that I think this is one of those cases where pruning will rejuvinate a weak tree, because you are getting rid for all that branch structures it cannot really support.
This thing is pretty leggy, but it came from a dumpster. It does have so many branches/ramification that I think this is one of those cases where pruning will rejuvinate a weak tree, because you are getting rid for all that branch structures it cannot really support.
Forsoothe!
Imperial Masterpiece
Fertilizer is food for plants for the purposes of our discussions. It doesn't matter if some of it needs to be reconstituted by microbes, fungi and other soil dwellers for use by and/or sharing by plants. It goes in and gets to the plants one way or the other. This nit-picking about the precise scientific terminology is bullshit, by bullshitters, and gets in the way of communication without contributing to the conversation.
Harunobu
Chumono
It is not a nitpick. It is fundamental to how plants are different from animals. Exactly for the purpose of our discussion, it is not food. And only if you nitpick, you can call it 'food' because besides energy, 'food' also supplies minerals. And it is exactly because of this that you want to give a leggy plant plenty of fertilizer while I would say to wait until it has generated enough food so that mineral supplementation actually starts to play a role.
Even more so since this was planted in garden soil, which almost always comes with fertilizer added.
Even more so since this was planted in garden soil, which almost always comes with fertilizer added.
Forsoothe!
Imperial Masterpiece
This plant(s) is leggy in wood, not in current growth. I think it's safe to say that the wood will be reduced by something like 90% on its way to becoming bonsai. To obtain usable buds in the lowest 12" of wood it will need a boost in vigor, otherwise it will bud mostly from the upper 2/3 of the plant where those buds will be cut off, How it responds when the top is lopped off will depend on the vigor with which it is growing. Fertilizer will boost that activity.
Deep Sea Diver
Masterpiece
Hi @Auffi .
If you haven’t had a chance to yet, please to fill out the azalea media (substrate) poll.
My thanks and please disregard this note if you’ve already polled.
Cheers!
DSD sends
If you haven’t had a chance to yet, please to fill out the azalea media (substrate) poll.
My thanks and please disregard this note if you’ve already polled.
Cheers!
DSD sends
Auffi
Seedling
Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
Spring is here and your azalea could be blooming (depending on your location) or starting to leaf out with this season’s flush……it’s time for updates!
I would also like to add at this time we have 3 prizes to award. Many thanks to @Forsoothe! and @Deep Sea Diver for donating. I am also donating a prize as well.
If you are no longer interested in continuing in the Azalea Contest, please let me know so we can close your thread, thanks.
I would also like to add at this time we have 3 prizes to award. Many thanks to @Forsoothe! and @Deep Sea Diver for donating. I am also donating a prize as well.
If you are no longer interested in continuing in the Azalea Contest, please let me know so we can close your thread, thanks.
Auffi
Seedling
Weather sucked this year. The plant didn't look good and I went all in and chopped it. Brought it in indoors in 100% Kanuma and here it is. It's not beautiful but alive. My goal is to hide the most of it with a canopy and show some of the fat trunk.
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Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
It has a good size trunk and it's still alive. Give it some time to recover.
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