Ulmus parvifolia 'nirekeyaki' tapper take time (be aware long photo threat)

[Davidlpf]

In 09/05/2014 a brought this little thing




it has some moss in the bark but, anyway, I felt in love


So that same day, slip potting in a small pot


Not so bad, but now I see that it was a mistake.


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[Davidlpf]

update 17/07/2014 growing happy despite the repotting.






Update 15/08/2014 more growth




With elms, sky is the limit


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[Davidlpf]

Update 22/12/14 winter is coming



Update 01/02/15 reppoting time

I usually use akadama and pumice 50%



This time I put it in a big plastic basket


So I put it off the smal pot


Washed the soil


and I did a root pruning



Secured in the basket with aluminum wire


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[Davidlpf]

Work done





Update 09/05/15




Update 04/07/16




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[Davidlpf]

Update 06/08/16 let's do some airlayers!



Update 18/09/16 It seem they had worked!




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[Davidlpf]

Update 19/11/16 time to harvest!


Five of five!!


The mother plant after




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[Davidlpf]

Update 22/01/17 new repotting



all substrate whased again


Elms are root beast!

But you can chop them



After the work


wounds

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[Davidlpf]

Update 28/04/2020 I let a time to rest to the nire, and it took advantage of it.




Some tapper gained!

wound closing

Opps! What a nice sacrifice branch, Lets do another airlayer on it....

Ring bark off

wire and plastic bottle in.

fulled with spagnum moss



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[Davidlpf]

Upadte 08/06/2020

Do you see the bottle half full or half empty?

Update 17/06/2020 cutting the airlayer


I love when the root look like toffee candy






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[Davidlpf]

In order to improve the development, I slip pot the nire to a bigger basket, with the same soil composition





Here was the sacrifice branch


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[Davidlpf]

And finally, by now, this is how the nire look at 05/08/2020


It needs more work, but so far, so good





This year cut, is healing really fast!


Some old scars almost had disappeared!


The plan is a new repotting at end of winter, and maybe take some hardwood cuttings, we will see.

That's all folks, any comment will be appreciated.

 

[DonovanC]

Very awesome post! Well done!

 

[Alain BERTRAND]

Thanks for posting. Very informative thread! when do you plan to start working on the ramification?

 

[Davidlpf]

Thanks for posting. Very informative thread! when do you plan to start working on the ramification?

Maybe next year, It's depends on how the nebari will look like in the next repotting at the end of winter (February/March).

So far, so good






Thanks for the interest!

Cheers

 

[Shibui]

I am very doubtful that this is 'nirekeyaki'. At least it is much different from the ones I have here. Yours looks much more like 'Seiju' to me.
'Nirekeyaki' has really tiny leaves and really crowded internodes. It is also very brittle so branches break of if you even look the wrong way at it. 'Nirekeyaki is also a true dwarf. Only grows about 1m tall at full size in the garden and I have never seen it put out long shoots like yours has done. Again, those long straight branches are more typical of Seiju. 'Nire keyaki' does have similar corky bark to Seiju though.

 

[Alain BERTRAND]

I don't think so. "Nirekeyaki" is a vernacular name that is mostly used for the Japanese forms of U. parvifolia. There are very common in western Japan, they grow like weeds on wasteland and they are certainly not dwarf. Probably the ones you have are from a particular cultivar. I have some from cuttings of a big bonsai that was affirmatively identified as nirekeyaki by a Japanese bonsai master and they are not dwarf, can have big leaves when cultivated in the ground and are not brittle.

 

[Davidlpf]

'Nirekeyaki' has really tiny leaves and really crowded internodes.

I think your talking about Ulmus parvifolia var hokkaido that has the tinniest leaves.

I have a seiju since 2015 too, and the leaves are smaller that nirekeyaki's


leaves comparison


Seijus bark



nirekeyaki bark




There are quite a lot of dwarf cultivars of Ulmus parvifolia, but I think I have well labeled this two.

Greetings!

 

[Davidlpf]

I don't think so. "Nirekeyaki" is a vernacular name that is mostly used for the Japanese forms of U. parvifolia. There are very common in western Japan, they grow like weeds on wasteland and they are certainly not dwarf. Probably the ones you have are from a particular cultivar. I have some from cuttings of a big bonsai that was affirmatively identified as nirekeyaki by a Japanese bonsai master and they are not dwarf, can have big leaves when cultivated in the ground and are not brittle.

Totally agree.

I have both seiju and nirekeyaki in the ground and the leaves of nire go even bigger.

 

[Shibui]

Thanks for the explanations. The dwarf Hokkaido elm is definitely sold as 'Nire Keyaki' here in Australia. Maybe some confusion with language when it was imported here?
We grow a similar larger leaf Ulmus parvifolia that has corky bark like yours. It is generally referred to as Corky bark Chinese elm here in Australia but I have also heard it called Ulmus davidii or U. parvifolia 'davidii'


I have preferred to develop shohin with the Seiju variety.


Can't find any photos of the Hokkaido at the moment.

Whatever they are called they all make good bonsai.

 

[hinmo24t]

great progression, best ive seen for an elm on here but i bet there are some good ones