Just Learning! Weeping Willow cuttings - Advice Welcome!
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Posted 6 years 4 months ago #44261Always have been interested in 名媛直播, just recently diagnosed with an illness which will give me significantly more free time. I have always admired a specific Willow tree in my town, so I took some cuttings and left them in water for about 3-4 weeks. Two of them rooted pretty well.
I have a mixture of 1/3 Akadama, 1/3 Pumice, 1/3 Black Lava and a small amount of Horticultural Charcoal. Something I bought on Amazon and is definitely too expensive to be filling multi-gallon pots with but I believe I have some time before I have to re-pot. I am aware that I may have been better off starting them off in the ground but this is the route I have chosen.
As a random experiment, I decided to wire the one Willow. The roots grew into the water from the shoot in a very odd way. Long story short, that tree actually goes about 4 inches under the substrate horizontally and the roots are right underneath the substrate, actually above the stalk(?) Not sure if I'm making any sense.. I imagine the roots will grow down an do something odd, possible strangling itself? Possible becoming the strange above ground roots that I am hoping for?
Anyway, try to go easy on me. I'm sure I'm breaking all kinds of cardinal rules haha.
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Posted 6 years 4 months ago #44262Willows are easy to root from cuttings, so now it's waiting time!
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Posted 6 years 4 months ago #44271I hope this is a more welcoming place than you make it seem, Auk. Reading through your comment history, it seems you are just commenting on threads asking for help from noobs saying "I'm not sure if I've said this before but: (something negative)"
May be the wrong place for me.
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Posted 6 years 4 months ago #44272If my answers look repetitive that is because the questions are.
The cardinal rule you broke is not reading and researching this forum and website first.
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Posted 6 years 4 months ago #44276Let criticism be constructive, please. Although being on a public forum I suppose I open myself up for comment so, eh.
Point noted.
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Posted 6 years 4 months ago #44287This cutting will take ages to reach that level of development. Of course you can wait, but you will get bored in the meantime.
Read articles and books, there are plenty of them mentioned on this forum. Collect some mature material that you can work and practice on and in the meantime you can let your willow grow wild preferably in a bigger container if you don't own a garden.
A plastic container is cheap I also use fruit baskets and you can always build your own wooden box for a very low amount of money. 名媛直播 substrates are expensive but most of the time you don't need it and there are far better solutions. Read the forum. Some of us use kitty litter, pine bark chips, coarse river sand, crushed zeolite or fired diatomaceous earth. These are all cheap and there are other options as well.
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Posted 6 years 3 months ago #44476I am basically bound to the house, unfortunately, due to medical issues. It was easy for me to get motivated and work with these small pots. I Have since bought 5 gallon pots which are made of some kind of fabric, people grow trees in them apparently without any issues. I now need to get soil.
I realize that I did not do this in the ideal way, I didn't realize there were such strict rules to what I thought was an art form. I am having fun cultivating small trees, isn't that what this is about?
Thanks for the suggestions Madarte, I just can't be digging around in a yard unfortunately. I am confined to growing on my deck, which is OK for me. Will be replanting sometime this week I think, updates soon.
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Posted 6 years 3 months ago #44479Masterarms wrote: I didn't realize there were such strict rules to what I thought was an art form. I am having fun cultivating small trees, isn't that what this is about?
No strict rules but guidelines. And sure, excellent if you are having fun growing small trees. I guess you mean that, as it is art, you can do whatever you like; it is just a matter of being creative. Sure you can. Likewise, you can get a piece of wood, carve it, create a beautiful wooden bowl out of it. Just don't call what you're doing pottery, it would be silly.
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Posted 6 years 3 months ago #44606It would seem there are many ways to bonsai. Thanks for your input, as always.
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