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Sapling
Recently got my first Azalea. I will upload some more photos since it's blooming season.
Yes, I'm planning to do the necessary training!looks beautiful! I love the multicoloured flowers. will you train these so that some pads are pink and others white?
It's 황춘(煌春, こうしゅん), not sure about English or botanical name..What is the cultivar?
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Thank you for your information! I'll check and learn about how to train the tree!Very nice tree. You’ll want to read a little about dominant and recessive flowers on multi-colored azaleas, Bonsai Today #47 Has a great article on this. You need to keep the all-red flowering branches in check or the tree will eventually have only red flowers. Usually red-flowering branches will not revert to white, the progression is:
white -> white with red stripes/spots -> red with some white stripes/spots -> pure red.
Pretty interesting challenge. Keeping good photographs of the tree in bloom helps guide pruning later when the tree is not in flower.
looks beautiful! I love the multicoloured flowers. will you train these so that some pads are pink and others white?
I heard about this at the MABS show.Very nice tree. You’ll want to read a little about dominant and recessive flowers on multi-colored azaleas, Bonsai Today #47 Has a great article on this. You need to keep the all-red flowering branches in check or the tree will eventually have only red flowers. Usually red-flowering branches will not revert to white, the progression is:
white -> white with red stripes/spots -> red with some white stripes/spots -> pure red.
Pretty interesting challenge. Keeping good photographs of the tree in bloom helps guide pruning later when the tree is not in flower.
I'm new to the bonsai and have lots of things to learn.That is Koshun then (or rather Koushun, but we kinda write お and おう to same in Roman alphabet sometimes).
Since you are a South Korean growing satsuki and their names come up, can you explain to me the Korean names for the Japanese cultivar names?
There is this Korean-to-Japanese reference list:
Are they translations?사츠키 만요엔 (さつき 万葉苑)
만요엔이 자리하고 있던 자리는 과거 명품 전시장이 있던 장소입니다. 시간의 흐름에 따라 명품 전시장의 기능을 잃어버리게 되었습니다. 그로인해 카누마 철쭉축제 40주년을 맞이한 기념사업의 일환으로 사츠키 문화의 전승과 사츠키의 품종 보존을 위해 사츠키 만요엔을 건립하게 되었습니다. 2011년 5월말까지 약 300여종, 최종적으로는 약 1,500여종의 사츠키를 심을 예정입니다. 다품종으로 일본최고는 물론 세계 최고의 사츠키 박물관이 될 날도 머지 않았습니다. 일본최고, 세계최고의 사츠키박물관을 목표로 하나라도 많은 품종을 수집...kaboku-kr.jimdofree.com
There is also this excellent Korean satsuki youtube channel, they have a video with a for them new cultivar, but they only know the Korean name
The Korean name is 봉우리. Is it possible to know the Japanese name from that?
The 화철 花綴 Hanatsuzuri I was able to figure out.
Sorry to 'hijack' your thread for this question. Hope you don't mind.
You can't really 'train' a multicoloured azalea to be a certain colour on certain branches. They do their own thing. What you can do is remove the branches that have too much color and hope they grow back with more white.