Anthony
Imperial Masterpiece
Presently checking to see who is Tropical and who is Sub-Tropical?
example - seems Trinidad only had 22 or so indigenous plants.
The vast amount being brought by bird or human.
Eample - West Indian Cherry ./ Barbados Cherry
Listed as Malphigia e [ was g - https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/barbados_cherry.html#Climate ]
anyhow - what I was after was lowest temperatures able to survive [ in the ground ]
some articles have it as - 28 deg.F for short periods and 32 deg.F for young
plants.
Tropics low liisted as around 55 deg.F and Sub-tropics as between 35.6 tp 42.8 depends
on which side of the world. Cold Months,
So you have folk trying to grow indoors a shrub that handles cold
and on our side sleeps for around two months,
Yet you also keep seeing references to Tropical.
In a bonsai pot, you drop back a zone or maybe 2.
Anyhow most of the trees on Trinidad are Sub-Tropical as they come from
the Americas mainland and at times high altitudes.
Amazing how a seed can adapt.
We have since learnt that the local Zanthoxylum needs seablast or after
4 years inland can die.
Presently the main effort is standing still, no growth.
Yet the Buttonwood and Seagrape don't have this problem.
Boy do you have to research a great deal to do this Bonsai thing
effectively.
As the trees have aged, a deciscion has been made to follow advice
from the Phillipines, repot around April / May, no more Jan.2nd.
Good Day
Anthony
Grown from a seedling. the mother tree is in the backyard.
Originally seen as a 3 inch [ 8 mm ]
West Indian or Barbados cherry
About 37-38 years.
Soil is 3.5 parts silica based gravel 5 mm / 3.5 parts 5 mm crushed red brick
/3 parts aged compost
Shown defoliated / still missing a branch on the lower right
Thus far the wood near the wounds shows no decay.
Has flowered, fruited and the fruit was tasty.
example - seems Trinidad only had 22 or so indigenous plants.
The vast amount being brought by bird or human.
Eample - West Indian Cherry ./ Barbados Cherry
Listed as Malphigia e [ was g - https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/barbados_cherry.html#Climate ]
anyhow - what I was after was lowest temperatures able to survive [ in the ground ]
some articles have it as - 28 deg.F for short periods and 32 deg.F for young
plants.
Tropics low liisted as around 55 deg.F and Sub-tropics as between 35.6 tp 42.8 depends
on which side of the world. Cold Months,
So you have folk trying to grow indoors a shrub that handles cold
and on our side sleeps for around two months,
Yet you also keep seeing references to Tropical.
In a bonsai pot, you drop back a zone or maybe 2.
Anyhow most of the trees on Trinidad are Sub-Tropical as they come from
the Americas mainland and at times high altitudes.
Amazing how a seed can adapt.
We have since learnt that the local Zanthoxylum needs seablast or after
4 years inland can die.
Presently the main effort is standing still, no growth.
Yet the Buttonwood and Seagrape don't have this problem.
Boy do you have to research a great deal to do this Bonsai thing
effectively.
As the trees have aged, a deciscion has been made to follow advice
from the Phillipines, repot around April / May, no more Jan.2nd.
Good Day
Anthony
Grown from a seedling. the mother tree is in the backyard.
Originally seen as a 3 inch [ 8 mm ]
West Indian or Barbados cherry
About 37-38 years.
Soil is 3.5 parts silica based gravel 5 mm / 3.5 parts 5 mm crushed red brick
/3 parts aged compost
Shown defoliated / still missing a branch on the lower right
Thus far the wood near the wounds shows no decay.
Has flowered, fruited and the fruit was tasty.
