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Hello my friends!

Another year coming to an end, and here I am sharing another project I've been working on the last two years.

This is a Chloroleucon Tenuiflorum, that's a deciduous (or semi) tree, a subspecies of Brazilian Rain Tree that builds a thick corky bark.
Mine is just two years old from seed, so the bark is not that thick yet, but it's already quite corky.

My approach on this tree is giving it a very tropical look, it still a new thing for me as I've been taking classes to learn that way of styling and it has been awesome.

Well, my idea for this one is not to thicken a lot more, and that species thicken quite well even on small pots, due to the bark growth. For some other trees on the same species I plan to make it bigger tho.

Oct. 2021


Dec. 2021 (I planted on a slighly bigger pot after that and didn't register)


April 2022 (Taproot prunned and planted on a even slightly bigger pot for development, already showing some cork)


Today (It's on a quite big pot and after it was given some movement and some branches were positioned, it just grew unpruned, this week I prunned it back to favour some other lower branches, since it has a very strong apical growth, it was like 1,5m high, I did it also to propagate...
I checked the nebari from the top, seems to be coming out nice and radial, ferilized it and it's ready for summer growth.



You might noticed a twist little twig on the left, I left that there as a resource, I thought that side of the ramification is not as good and short as the other side, so I was considering to prune back to that little twig and start that ramification again with a better movement, however it gave me other options, still haven't decided about that.

Well, that's it, any feedback is welcome, hope you enjoy this journey with me.

Happy Holidays ya'll.

Wow ... a fantastic development in just 2 years !
I like the shape, very nice trunk and bark.
Good Job

Thank you Dax, BRTs are very fast in growth.
And of course, the climate plays a major role, which is subtropical here (10a hardiness zone).

But still, there's a long way to go.

Albas wrote:

... the climate plays a major role, which is subtropical here .

But still, there's a long way to go.

Ahh.. thank you,... that explains a lot !
Keep it up, i would like to see your tree in 3 years (of course sooner).

Hello fellas!

Time for an update on this progression!

It's almost spring here, and until now not much has been done, I've let it grow quite tall to thicken up, and because of the big pot, couldn't really wire much, because branches get thick quite fast, and then you can't bend it anymore, that resulted in a few straight segments on the branches that are not pleasant, so that's something I'm looking forward to correct, it will bud on a lot of spots now that I've pruned it back to choose between...

So the nebari wasn't as good as I thought, so I had to prune it back a this year to correct it, it's now with a sheet screwed on it's base (it didn't have anything to stimulate radial roots).

This year?I also reduced the height of the pot by the half, as I don't want it to thicken a lot more, neither so fast that I couldn't wire it as I prunned back with the goal of wiring the new branches, and also to start building a good and shallower?root system, hoping for a better nebari to work with on next season?repot.

That's it, pictures below...
Hope you guys enjoy, any feedback is welcome.

it wasan't too pot bound, but on this stage one more year without repot would result in a even mor messy root base for me to deal with...


After cleaning the excessive roots and branches.


Organizing the remaining roots on the (you can see the wood sheet screwed on the bottom)


Back into the pot (but a shallower one, it's about 10cm)


Another angle..