Dwarf Barbados Cherry

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Try the - Question section - put in Budi's or Jun's name or say I need help from Malaysia, Thailand or the Philippines or any
other country you can think of.

Or simply pull up from the search feature, Budi's or Jun's name and send a p.m.
Best of luck.
Good Day
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It responded very well to the cutback. Summer is going to be ending soon, and because I want to give it as much time to recover as possible, I repotted it today. The pot is absolutely beautiful! From @nite_owl_studios -highly recommend, great pots.

I will post a better picture and some notes on the species tomorrow- but for now here's a quick pic:
 

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I have had my weeping Barbados Cherry since April. It's much smaller than yours. It has a little feathery looking thing growing, that I assumed was a flower bract. But looking at the flower on yours, I am confused. Is that how the flowers start to develop? By the way, yours is really nice!
 

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Is this how the flowers start?Barbados Cherry.jpg
 

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Has anyone tried the fruit from these before? They supposedly have 1 calorie but 135% of your vitamin C per fruit lol. Mine produced its first fruit today and it tasted like a mildly sweet tomato, not what I expected texture wise but still good
 

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Been so busy lately, many of my trees were somewhat neglected- this one included. I cut it back a few weeks ago in hope of back budding. Of course it didn't happen since I had to leave at least one leaf per branch to ensure they survive, and now I really need the branches to be pushed back especially around the crown. Wondering if I can safely cut back and leave no leaves on the branches/tree @Anthony ?

While the parent tree isn't doing so well, I have so many great cuttings I don't even know what to do with them all! Some cool future literati, exposed root, twisty mame, etc. in the works!
 

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Maybe 4-5 years or so from cutting, wired and long over due repot
 

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@Anthony , I know you don't work with this exact species, but would you fertilize immediately after repot or wait a few weeks? I didnt remove any roots, just broke the root ball up some and worked the new soil in.

More to come tomorrow
 

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@JoeR ,

can you wait a month ?

By any chance is this what was called - Malphighia - Punicifolia or
Coccigera [ spelling ? ]
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^ how about images against a plain background.
Perhaps a large plain cardboard box.
 

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Malpighia punicifolia (emarginata?) Is what I believe it to be. Not sure if that's accurate, the taxonomy in this family is messy it appears.

I can wait to fertilize. What is the reasoning behind waiting to fertilize?

I'll take new pictures after this with a box ;)

Another cutting from the same batch. Snapped the apex a little bit, so its not quite where I wanted it
 

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@JoeR ,

two situations -

[1] Trunk thickening

[2] Dense Foliage.

As usual take cuttings, don't experiment on the mothers.

The oversized box is for branch refinement.

I gave a safe response.
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@JoeR , did the parent tree survive? You said it wasn't looking great. Loved that pot you put it in.
 

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@JoeR , did the parent tree survive? You said it wasn't looking great. Loved that pot you put it in.
Oh its alive, it wasn't looking great because the foliage had gotten too far away from the trunk.

In fact, in 2017 I cut every branch back to 2 leaves. The tree responded well. Now however, the foliage was so far out that even if I cut back to the first set of leaves it would still be too far.

Before:
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I noticed I was getting backbuds on old wood thanks to the excessive rain we have been getting here in NC.

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And now hold on to your socks-

Today I decided it was ready for a haircut. I took over 40 more cuttings from it today. I'm fairly confident it will respond well to this.

After:20200602_130930.jpg

And now, we wait.
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Oh its alive, it wasn't looking great because the foliage had gotten too far away from the trunk.

In fact, in 2017 I cut every branch back to 2 leaves. The tree responded well. Now however, the foliage was so far out that even if I cut back to the first set of leaves it would still be too far.

Before:
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I noticed I was getting backbuds on old wood thanks to the excessive rain we have been getting here in NC.

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And now hold on to your socks-

Today I decided it was ready for a haircut. I took over 40 more cuttings from it today. I'm fairly confident it will respond well to this.

After:View attachment 306667

And now, we wait.
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Please post updates! I'm curious of your technique with the cuttings as well.
 

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Please post updates! I'm curious of your technique with the cuttings as well.
Easiest species for cuttings. They throw aerial roots and root within a couple weeks usually. I dont use rooting hormone, never tried it on them, just perlite and place in shade and high humidity.
 

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Easiest species for cuttings. They throw aerial roots and root within a couple weeks usually. I dont use rooting hormone, never tried it on them, just perlite and place in shade and high humidity.
Do you use only hardwood cuttings? I trimmed up a couple of mine last weekend, but had only thin, green trimmings. I stuck them in a mix of perlite and pumice and a plastic bag over them. Not sure it they'll make it, but they are alive so far.
 

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Do you use only hardwood cuttings? I trimmed up a couple of mine last weekend, but had only thin, green trimmings. I stuck them in a mix of perlite and pumice and a plastic bag over them. Not sure it they'll make it, but they are alive so far.
Hard to really say if this tree even forms any "hardwood" at all lol... almost spongy.

I think every cutting Ive struck has been from brown wood. But if you used rooting hormone I imagine even green growth could form roots.
 
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