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Thanks for starting this thread, I just got two small Raintrees (around 15mm at the base and 12cm high) to replace a few trees that I lost over the winter and spring. I had a higher than normal loss-rate last year, but thats to be expected sometimes. I ran across a tree that looked similar to yours a few years ago, but didn't realize what I was looking at. Between the exfoliating bark and unusual growth habits of the tree (and it only identifier being tagged as "tropical"), I thought $80.00 was too much even though it was on sale. Even now, I find it odd that the store even had one, but thinking back on it I'm 95% certain it was a Raintree. Anyway, these two have a lot of recovery to do after being beaten up at the nursery/store. I slipped the pots off and they are root bound, so I'm simply going to loosen the roots on the outer 2-4mm of the rootball and plop them into separate bulb pots with a Gaia Green prepared mix.
They seem to quite roughed, unlike a bougainvillea that I have. My boug, looks to be the same colour as the one that is in the corner of the picture in your last post. I'm struggling with ph at the moment, but it's survived this long, I'm sure that it will live until I can get it figured out.
Anyway, I thought your thread deserved a bump... it will take many years before mine will look anything like yours, but I guess the bright-side is that I'll be developing it right from the start.
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Thanks for starting this thread, I just got two small Raintrees (around 15mm at the base and 12cm high) to replace a few trees that I lost over the winter and spring. I had a higher than normal loss-rate last year, but thats to be expected sometimes. I ran across a tree that looked similar to yours a few years ago, but didn't realize what I was looking at. Between the exfoliating bark and unusual growth habits of the tree (and it only identifier being tagged as "tropical"), I thought $80.00 was too much even though it was on sale. Even now, I find it odd that the store even had one, but thinking back on it I'm 95% certain it was a Raintree. Anyway, these two have a lot of recovery to do after being beaten up at the nursery/store. I slipped the pots off and they are root bound, so I'm simply going to loosen the roots on the outer 2-4mm of the rootball and plop them into separate bulb pots with a Gaia Green prepared mix.
They seem to quite roughed, unlike a bougainvillea that I have. My boug, looks to be the same colour as the one that is in the corner of the picture in your last post. I'm struggling with ph at the moment, but it's survived this long, I'm sure that it will live until I can get it figured out.
Anyway, I thought your thread deserved a bump... it will take many years before mine will look anything like yours, but I guess the bright-side is that I'll be developing it right from the start.
Season's Greetings