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just.wing.it

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Last year, in Autumn, my little satsuki plant experienced a freeze one night... by morning, the leaves were brown and looking bad.

This being my first and only satsuki, and seeing that my other 2 azaleas didn't flinch, I thought it was dead...

I put it in the garage, along with some others. Around January, it began pushing new growth!!! Not dead! But not happy...
I decided to put it in my little area I have for my few tropicals for the rest of winter.
I think by now, I'm ok saying it's going to make it...
I don't have pics of the damaged leaves, but here it is today.
Ready to go out on the bench soon, I think.
Ugly thing....
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So the reason your diesel broke is hanging there.....

Lol!

Nice!

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Last year, in Autumn, my little satsuki plant experienced a freeze one night... by morning, the leaves were brown and looking bad.

This being my first and only satsuki, and seeing that my other 2 azaleas didn't flinch, I thought it was dead...

I put it in the garage, along with some others. Around January, it began pushing new growth!!! Not dead! But not happy...
I decided to put it in my little area I have for my few tropicals for the rest of winter.
I think by now, I'm ok saying it's going to make it...
I don't have pics of the damaged leaves, but here it is today.
Ready to go out on the bench soon, I think.
Ugly thing....
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I have Satsuki in large training pots that freeze all the time in winter FYI. Not frozen all winter aka Michigan style, but freeze off and on. I’ve read that there are some varieties that don’t tolerate cold well, but common varieties like Chinzan and waekebisu do just fine in my experience.
 

just.wing.it

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What an awesome surprise!
There's at least one flower bud comimg in!
Didn't think I'd get to see what they look like yet...
I trimmed the long shoots off in late April.

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Still an ugly little thing tho, aint it?
It had a my go style explosion of branches from one node, when I obtained it....it removed all but 2 trunks, one on each side, as to not kill half the trunk back to the ground...
The huge wound ia slowly starting to heal.
 

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@just.wing.it Why do you consider it ugly? Just curious.
Well, to this point I've done no styling to it, beyond the initial cut back...
After the freeze, its been growing in all directions and is a general mess...
Maybe after the flower opens up I'll do some structural pruning to it, and start to develop a nice canopy that can show flowers nicely in the future.

Right now its like a wild little bush, which is fine for now!
 
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