MHBonsai
Chumono
In 2017 I made an order with Brent with evergreen gardenworks for a one gallon malus… I think it is a sugar tyme variety. It was kind of a strange double trunk that I didn’t know what to do with and I knew I wanted size so I dropped into the ground for a season.
It’s thickened up really fast in the ground like I expected. I tried to tourniquet a section to prepare for an air layer but ended up giving up on it.
Following year I dug it up to put it into a pot. Really rough roots.
I did the basic chops and went hard on the roots to get it flat. I was not sure it would survive the potting. It made it…but still hardly flowered. I did not really like the two trunk vision, and rechopped into a father/daughter thought.
Again went hard to get the root mass flat. Got some branching started. Basically I cut back everything to one or two nodes to keep the growth tight every year.
Each year the flowers are getting better and better.
Spring of 2022 it really started to pop.
Tons of apples but few if any make it through the year. I’m not sure how to keep them healthy. I struggle with cedar apple rust with this tree which may cause them to die off.
It’s thickened up really fast in the ground like I expected. I tried to tourniquet a section to prepare for an air layer but ended up giving up on it.
Following year I dug it up to put it into a pot. Really rough roots.
I did the basic chops and went hard on the roots to get it flat. I was not sure it would survive the potting. It made it…but still hardly flowered. I did not really like the two trunk vision, and rechopped into a father/daughter thought.
Again went hard to get the root mass flat. Got some branching started. Basically I cut back everything to one or two nodes to keep the growth tight every year.
Each year the flowers are getting better and better.
Spring of 2022 it really started to pop.
Tons of apples but few if any make it through the year. I’m not sure how to keep them healthy. I struggle with cedar apple rust with this tree which may cause them to die off.