名媛直播

Hi There, I'm new to 名媛直播 and have bought some starter material. It's an Azalea Haru No Sono - according to the site i bought if off these are suitable to 名媛直播 (however I've done more google research and can't find any other references to this type of Azalea being used as 名媛直播).

It's been delivered today and has many many stems (see images).

My initial thoughts are:

1. I could try to air layer some of these and try to get a few trees.
2. I could prune off all but one main stem (seems wasteful though)
3. I could try to split the plant to make several (and then possibly prune)

I'm open to suggestions - all thought are greatly appreciated - many thanks.

no pictures attached so i cant say anything specific.

But in general ( not knowing your horticultural background/knowledge)
-you are keeping it outside i hope?
- keep it alive first for a year, meanwhile dig into bonsai knowledge , look at other trees, and most of all, look at your own tree from al directions.
- horticulture: learn to do what when. This is very important: the health of your tree comes first, everything else ( bonsai-ish) comes second

Hopefully the images are attached / inserted now (I read quite a lot of beginners who struggle to upload pics - myself now included).



Hope this works.

Many thanks lucR. Yes, keeping it outside.

Well, unless you make a cluster style, there is no "main trunk" that you could use right now.
Let me tell you, Azalea growers that sell for Garden Centers want to show the flowers, as this is the main selling point. So they bunch together many seedlings and sell as one plant.
In short, get a satsuki or a kurume already started as a bonsai, it is going to be easier and faster.
My two cents.

Over the years, I have bought three trees mail order, and my impressions have ranged from not real pleased to disappointed.

Thinking about it, what trees do they mail? The ones they can't sell from people looking at them.

Well, charitably, maybe a better way of thinking is that the choice of a tree is really a personal thing. Somebody would like the tree I got, but unfortunately not me.

Whatever - I haven't bought one mail order in a long time, I'm not going to get another ever, and I would not encourage anybody to get one without seeing it. If a source offers to pay for return shipping and full refund, go ahead.