New dwarf cherry

[Heitor Silva]

Sooo... I decided to post some of my fellow trees. This one is an Eugenia matosii, know as "Wild Cherry" or "dwarf cherry" here in Brazil. I acquired it 3 days ago, after a small trip to Sorocaba. Loved the idea of "lotta trunks from one tree". Right now, I'm planning to slip pot it. As for the future, I will let it get used to my climate before doing anything with it. However, I believe that opening its canopy, which is kind of congested, would do it some good.

Put it in a larger container yesterday. Its really hot it here. YIKES!

 

[Heitor Silva]

Update. (11/22/2019)

After tracking its health, which was really nice, I decided to intervene in its shape. My objective was to shape it in a "less bushy" manner. Now, i will let it fill out till Darwin knows when. Nice liquid feeding every 15 days allied with osmocote.



Ideas i found online, which could help me out :


Inputs are welcome!!

 

[Heitor Silva]

Update: didn't do much to it besides leaving it free to grow. It has shown some nice progress upon using osmocote plus a foliar fertilizer. Eugenias are quite resilient, but not so fast growers at all. From a really nice article I read, Eugenia matosii's shrubs which heigh 1 m are considered tall!
Took it to a Workshop this January. The teacher is called Cézar, and lives in Sorocaba (check Bonsai Sorocaba on Facebook!). We used some wire to open the overall structure, and did some light trimming so as to ramify it.

Before


After

 

[Pitoon]

Nice. Looks healthy. How flexible are the branches?

 

[Heitor Silva]

Nice. Looks healthy. How flexible are the branches?

I must be frank: they aren't that flexible at all. After a diameter of 2.5 cm, branches become really "solid". I wired some of the finer ramifications with copper wire, since it is stronger than aluminum. However, if you look at the bottom portions of the tree, it isn't bendable at all.
Another think I did was to anchor some of the thicker branches so as to be able to move then.
It reminds me of the Jaboticaba when it comes to this point.

 

[Pitoon]

I must be frank: they aren't that flexible at all. After a diameter of 2.5 cm, branches become really "solid". I wired some of the finer ramifications with copper wire, since it is stronger than aluminum. However, if you look at the bottom portions of the tree, it isn't bendable at all.
Another think I did was to anchor some of the thicker branches so as to be able to move then.
It reminds me of the Jaboticaba when it comes to this point.

I had the impression that the branches are not all that flexible.