Follow up on my first Cuphea attempt.
Part I : http://maubonsai.blogspot.com/2012/08/cuphea-001-attempting-aerial-roots.html
Cuphea is very slow to thicken up or bulk up its trunk.
It tends to throw long shoots but the main trunk just does not follow up in terms of thickening up as does other plants or shrubs.
In part I, I tried to encourage aerial roots to grow from the lower section of the trunk by applying some generous amount of sphagnum moss in the areas where I wanted the roots to appear.
Once there was a generous amount of roots coming out of the sphagnum moss, I went ahead and removed the sphagnum moss. Then rearranged the branches and also started on the ramification process.
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