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This is my entry into the mame contest. Another pokomoke that is developing pretty fast. I got pretty lucky with branches in all the right places after the trunk chop.
Crape Myrtle Crazy
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My driveway shohin. No idea of variety and I've never been able to get it to bloom yet.
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Next is my semi cascade that is in the process of blooming. It's kind of a mess right now.
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This one is a discount nursery purchase that's getting ready to bloom. I think the branches on it need to be really cut back. I'll probably wait until late winter to do that though.
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Lastly is another discount nursery buy from the same day as the one above. I chopped this one late winter and started it over. I think it's coming along ok.
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Spring updates:
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Growing well.
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The rebuild on this one is coming along.
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One of these days, I will settle on a pot for this one. Maybe this is it.
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Little guys.
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Couple updates on my 2 mame contest entries. Both of these trees are in tiny pots that I sat in larger 6" pots to help keep them from drying out.
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I would say the technique works.
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I repotted this one into a slightly deeper pot. The one it was in was just too small. It seems happier in this one.
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Now for the 2 shohin. Moss is starting to get out of hand on these. Fertilizer doesn't kill it.
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This one got cut back hard in early summer and has now grown back. I think it actually looks better a little wider and more open so I'm going to work towards that.
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Time to update the crapes myrtles this year. I've done a pretty good purging and downsized my number. I'm left with 6 now. The others have been sold or planted in the ground or given away.
My pokomoke group is going through some changes. It had a crossing branch in the canopy that I had been reluctant to remove because it would create a big hole. This year, I pulled the trigger and cut it off.
Plan is to grow the right hand trunk of the left tree taller and fill it in. I may even try to grow that trunk to a height where its taller than the right hand tree. We'll see.
My pokomoke group is going through some changes. It had a crossing branch in the canopy that I had been reluctant to remove because it would create a big hole. This year, I pulled the trigger and cut it off.
Plan is to grow the right hand trunk of the left tree taller and fill it in. I may even try to grow that trunk to a height where its taller than the right hand tree. We'll see.
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Shohin Pokomoke.
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Mame pokomoke. I might have to sit the pot in something bigger and allow the roots to escape again this year. It's got some filling in to do and the low left branch needs to lengthen.
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Driveway shohin.
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Driveway Mame.
