Lovely little Potentilla

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Ordered this shohin potentilla from Shoka Bonsai - I love it!

Think it's got a lovely trunk line, great nebari and looks super healthy. And it came in a beautiful pot!

Really pleased with it and excited to see where it can go. No immediate plans, but I can see this becoming a favourite of mine 😊

If there's any potentilla experts out there, and tips would be fab. I know they like full sun, so it's sitting pride of place at the top of my shelf!
 

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They take lots of water
Wire when green. Mature branches are brittle and prone to breaking

Be carefull with root-pruning: Roots-branch connections are dedicated

Deadwood needs loads of care: This falls apart easily.
 

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They take lots of water
Wire when green. Mature branches are brittle and prone to breaking

Be carefull with root-pruning: Roots-branch connections are dedicated

Deadwood needs loads of care: This falls apart easily.

Thanks very much for this - great info! Good potential do you think?

Wiring - thin wire I'm presuming? Could wiring wait until next year or should it be done this year? I've got a less mature potentilla that I wanted to practice wiring on first this year - really don't want to mess this one up!

EDIT: Just seen about the brittle mature branches, guessing wiring this year may be better

Root pruning - doesn't look like it'll need repotting any time soon to me? Might be wrong...will definitely be careful of this though and do lots of research before.

Deadwood care - clean with fine brush and apply lime sulphur? Will have a research into potentilla deadwood :)
 

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I have had one for a few years. I wired multiple times in the growing season. Every time a new branch grew I would wire it in place. And 2-4 weeks laters it would have set. Then prune the tip. Remove the wire. Get side-shoots, repeat. Very fast to develop these.
 

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I have had one for a few years. I wired multiple times in the growing season. Every time a new branch grew I would wire it in place. And 2-4 weeks laters it would have set. Then prune the tip. Remove the wire. Get side-shoots, repeat. Very fast to develop these.

Good stuff, thanks very much! Will have a look at threads on here if potentilla, not sure if you have any. I'm sure I'll find lots of good guidance/examples
 

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Good stuff, thanks very much! Will have a look at threads on here if potentilla, not sure if you have any. I'm sure I'll find lots of good guidance/examples
Don't think it is on here.
I had one on the ibonsaiforum. Sold the tree a few years back.

 

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Don't think it is on here.
I had one on the ibonsaiforum. Sold the tree a few years back.


Great trunk on that! Really lovely tree. Did you use lime sulphur on the deadwood? Sorry loads of questions!
 

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Ordered this shohin potentilla from Shoka Bonsai - I love it!

Think it's got a lovely trunk line, great nebari and looks super healthy. And it came in a beautiful pot!

Really pleased with it and excited to see where it can go. No immediate plans, but I can see this becoming a favourite of mine 😊

If there's any potentilla experts out there, and tips would be fab. I know they like full sun, so it's sitting pride of place at the top of my shelf!
Nice pot too, do you know who made it?
 

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Nice pot too, do you know who made it?

The potter is Jackson Conn - JC pottery (the seller's father) :)

 

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Love that pot, when is the flower show?

Sorce
 

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Love that pot, when is the flower show?

Sorce

Yes the pot was half the reason for the purchase to be honest, it's lovely!

I asked him about the flowers actually, was curious what colour they'd be (I'm going to guess yellow) - he said he's never let it bloom so he's unsure! Guessing that means there will be no flower show this year?
 

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Yes the pot was half the reason for the purchase to be honest, it's lovely!

I asked him about the flowers actually, was curious what colour they'd be (I'm going to guess yellow) - he said he's never let it bloom so he's unsure! Guessing that means there will be no flower show this year?
for flowers, let them grow. It is early in summer. If you do not trim the shoots, you should get flowers this year.
 

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for flowers, let them grow. It is early in summer. If you do not trim the shoots, you should get flowers this year.

Ohh lovely to hear, thanks! No pruning then, fingers crossed they'll arrive. I'd really love a different colour to yellow, just to be different, but we'll see!
 

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Question - the soil is very compacted (could be due to how it was packaged?)

Also the pot is very full - its quite tricky to tell how wet the soil is because of these things?

Poking below the soil surface is tricky due to it being quite firm, and when I tried it just caused soil to fall out.

Any adive on this? Sorry if I explained badly, attached some photos
 

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