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2015-02-08

Juniper experiment - large cuttings from trunk/branch

A little experiment that we did last weekend on one of Hem's junipers from his garden.
Attempting to create large cuttings on a juniper.
Basically, we looked for some semi-thick branches with interesting potential for creating a future shohin or mame bonsai.
We prepared several bottles to hold the cuttings and added holes to pass wires to anchor the cuttings.
We made a clean cut, added rooting hormone and securely anchored the cuttings.
We added a plastic to create a temporary greenhouse.


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large juniper cutting
large juniper cutting
large juniper cutting

large juniper cutting
large juniper cutting
large juniper cutting
large juniper cutting
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large juniper cutting
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large juniper cutting
large juniper cutting
large juniper cutting
large juniper cutting

We repeated the same process with various other branches... We did try to visualize how the future tree should look and where needed we cut at an angle to hopefully get roots in the right position.

large juniper cutting
large juniper cutting
large juniper cutting
large juniper cutting
large juniper cutting
large juniper cutting
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large juniper cutting
large juniper cutting


large juniper cutting

2 comments:

  1. Hello Xavier. Can you please tell me where do you buy your rooting agent? What category it is. It is quite a rare product in the market.

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    1. Hey Kreshan
      Try at local nurseries or in the gardening section of hypermarkets like shoprite or intermart

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