Mateo’s back yard dumbassery

[WavyGaby]

Loosely wired down some top branches to set structure on my littlest flattop BC.
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Good looking!

 

[queenofsheba52]

I love dumbassery.

Just sayin'

 

[19Mateo83]

I love dumbassery.

Just sayin'

Dumbassery and shenanigans is my middle name

 

[19Mateo83]

Got the little hornbeams potted. All the roots are nicely intertwined and hopefully they recover after today’s abuse. The soil mix has coco coir in it to help hold a little extra moisture. The little elm is in the same mix.

 

[19Mateo83]

Little birdie is getting fat fast

 

[Goodbrake]

I went and checked on my BC knee thread graft I started in February this year.
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So far it seems to be doing well
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What's the goal of this?

 

[19Mateo83]

What's the goal of this?

The goal is to eventually be able to separate the knee from the main tree and have it live. There are few pictures of grafted knee bonsai. Also, I wanna see if I can successfully do it because why not.

 

[Cajunrider]

The goal is to eventually be able to separate the knee from the main tree and have it live. There are few pictures of grafted knee bonsai. Also, I wanna see if I can successfully do it because why not.

It can be done

 

[Goodbrake]

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So, the foliage comes from the grafted seedling, and the knee has its own roots?

 

[Cajunrider]

So, the foliage comes from the grafted seedling, and the knee has its own roots?

Yes

 

[Goodbrake]

Yes

I thought the knees protruded out of the large structural roots. Do they have enough fine roots nearby to just dig up, or do you have to do some prep work to grow them before separation?

 

[19Mateo83]

I thought the knees protruded out of the large structural roots. Do they have enough fine roots nearby to just dig up, or do you have to do some prep work to grow them before separation?

This is going to have to be done in stages. Once the graft takes I will cut the far end of the knee and let it use the parent trees energy push new fine root growth on that end. Once it’s been long enough that I feel it has good enough roots I will chop the parent tree side of the knee free. Then give it another year to let the graft push new roots on that side. To me this is an exercise in grafting and patience and if it works out I will have a very unique little bald cypress to play with. If it fails all I’m out is a couple hours of my time and a sapling BC.