bougie - worth digging??

[barrosinc]

I got this chance to get this bougainvillea in spring.

It isn't super interesting but it is thick! I would say 8 inches wide.

It seems to have fairly large leaves for a bougainvillea and is a light purple (almost white).

 

[lordy]

Heck yes! cut it fairly short and Stand back because it should sprout branches like crazy!

 

[Cadillactaste]

I see MANY cuttings from said tree! Do it!!! It's a bougainvillea how can you possibly go wrong!?!

 

[Cadillactaste]

Send Sam a message...asking him any questions. Surely he will respond. As to how to go about doing a cutting. You can do thick trunk cuttings a well. So check out the top of this tree as well.

 

[barrosinc]

I just read Sam's thread http://bonsainut.com/index.php?threads/monster-pink-pixie-bougainvillea.4659/page-2
I do not know what I will find under the ground... Any ideas when is the very best time to dig these up?

 

[sorce]

I just read Sam's thread http://bonsainut.com/index.php?threads/monster-pink-pixie-bougainvillea.4659/page-2
I do not know what I will find under the ground... Any ideas when is the very best time to dig these up?

Before I ask Mile high to look up its location, in order for me to dig it first!

Time to pull out my tree digging helicopter drone! Wouldn't that be the s?

Sorce

 

[sorce]

Before the Chile Freddy Krueger comes to fetch his sweater?

Looks like airlayers might be easier and more interesting.
That's a big telephone pole!

Sorce

 

[barrosinc]

Yeah, pretty straight... That's the biggest drawback. It goes over to my house but my neighbor offered me the tree.

You can dig it if you want and then I can follow you to the Chilean airport, customs will never ever let that cross the border.

The problem is that all three branches are a third of the trunk... So that kinda kills it for me.

 

[Cadillactaste]

This was a cutting...you don't need to collect it's roots. Find and interesting part of the branches and make work of it! On another bonsai group I go to...one had a larger cutting than this...with success! Food for thought.

 

[barrosinc]

I think I am going to look for a branch or something to cut and root... the base as is, seems not good at all.

 

[pbethune]

DO it. Cut that small one out and leave the y-formation for now.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Keep us posted with photos! Wishing you success...

 

[barrosinc]

I found a part in the trunk that is like 5 inch thick which seems way better!!! I am going to try that out. If it is a hardwood cutting, when exactly do I do this?

Do you tie it to the pot so that it doesnt move?

 

[Cadillactaste]

I found a part in the trunk that is like 5 inch thick which seems way better!!! I am going to try that out. If it is a hardwood cutting, when exactly do I do this?

Do you tie it to the pot so that it doesnt move?

I would wire it...just to anchor it in safely. I would think during the warm growing part of the season when tree is pushing growth? Isn't that when ones air layer? Your still wanting roots...right?

 

[barrosinc]

this is way higher in the trunk, so no roots... I thought cuttings were really easy with these. Even as thick as 5 inch.

 

[Cadillactaste]

this is way higher in the trunk, so no roots... I thought cuttings were really easy with these. Even as thick as 5 inch.

Right, no roots from a cutting...but...the time to take a cutting I would think would be the same time one would want to do an air layer. Both desiring new growth of roots is what I meant. So if it's pushing growth is when ones typically do air layers...then I would think during the growth and warm period one would want to do a cutting. Since desired new roots is the agenda...no? Though you may have a larger window of opportunity with cuttings...I honestly don't know.

 

[barrosinc]

I was thinking that this wont have leaves to produce roots... Like a hardwood cutting, but being more a tropical tree... I got lost.

 

[Cadillactaste]

I would pose any real questions to Sam...but I believe Neli had a photo of cuttings from bougainvillea on here as well...and I didn't think they had leaves.

 

[barrosinc]

I have seen it done with thick hardwood, but no idea when to do it. I will email Sam.
Thanks

 

[Cadillactaste]

Let me look in my bougainvillea book. It mentions cuttings...and the procedure to do it. But...not the appropriate time. Sorry I wasn't much help.