BLOOMING WRIGHTIA

Wrightia loves hot weather and plenty of water. It often gives full boom of flowers during the hot and dry season.
The flower fragrant is simply sweet and refreshing, and 2 to 3 pots of blooming wrightia can actually give a sweet and refreshing atmosphere to your garden during the evening hours.

This one has been blooming for the past one month.





..... and this has only started a week ago.



This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Mar 16 2014, 12:13 PM

Plant your tree in a big pot or on the ground for 2-3 years let it grows freely to achieve a thick trunk, then pot it a smaller pot and start the bonsai training.

That's a dwarf murraya or scientific name Murraya paniculata microphylla.

This Ficus Benjamin has not got much improvement for the past 2 years.



Hope it will improve in time to come.





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Sign of infection in the needle in one of my Black Pines when the rain came back a couple of weeks ago.



Checking out the roots and causes of the infection.
The single small drain hole Chinese porcelain pot is the culprit, even the well drain Indonesian volcanic soil can't drain well.



As I don't have any spare pots with big drain holes, so lot of works to be done in order to repot all the Black pines planted
in the small drain hole Chinese porcelain pots.







Finally job done.





This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Mar 30 2014, 03:41 PM

Wrightia Bunjin Update

Murraya Bloom
Fill the evening atmosphere with sweet and fresh frequent.

Weeping Tree

This is one of the species in my garden that I do not know it's ID.
Natural weeping branches type.





Hope somebody know it's ID?

Hi deric,

You've spotted on.
Will trim when they show sign of steady grow.

hi Lim & Palohan,

Welcome to the topic, looking forward to share your collections.

Wrightia require direct sun light.

Hi deric
Welcome back. You were here sometimes back in 2009.
Looking forward to share your collections.

Hi Alvin,

Long time no hear.
Can't wait to see your update.

Didn't see it?

Definitely not me.

I'm no expert but only a bit crazy in bonsai hobby.

Hi Bishop,
My suggestion is cut them away and let the growth concentrate on the main stem.
The present foliage looks big, do a total defoliation, let the tree botak. You will see the structure of the branches after defoliation done.
Then trim each of the "pad" smaller and more to mushroom shape. Do not apply any fertilizer, new leaves will grow back very fast and when the new leaves are fully grown, do another round of full defoliation again. After 4/5 rounds of defoliation, you should be able to get a fine ramification of the foliage.
Re potting will be the next stage after this.

WoW ! Hedgehog good answer

Check this out

http://www.bonsai4me.com/AdvTech/ATdefoliating.htm

Read the bonsai Technic written in bonsai4me by Harry Harrington, you will be able to get some idea how to start the hobby.

Agree with that.
If you will want to reduce leave size and foliage ramification, just do total defoliation.
There's no fix time or months that you shall do defoliation in hot climate like ours.
Do many times as you like within a year as long as the fresh batch of leaves are mature, but of coarse watering is important.
Deciduous species like writhgia, fukien tea or ficus response very well to total defoliation - means leaf size reduces significantly.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Apr 10 2014, 05:41 PM

Over application of chemical fertilizer is one of reasons that causes leaves to turn yellow and drop overnight.
Unless you post a photo of your Fukien tea, it will be difficult to said what went wrong.
I suggest you change the soil of your fukien tea if not the over dosage of the fertilizer remained in the soil can kill your plant.
At the mean time you can check the roots and see whether it's infected.