![]() ![]() ![]() This is easy to do when tending and styling many other types of bonsai. Several members, like me, had tended to neglect their plants too much. So I planned a mid-Summer meeting for our mum bonsai work and at that meeting many people’s problems became evident. I had intended to have a Fall meeting to show off our bonsai- potted and blooming plants, but I realized that would be a problem unless we got them all under better control. I recommend potting the Chrysanthemum up in a little larger pots the first time because they grow VERY fast. Several other people in the club were also having problems along these lines and to top it all off, we weren’t keeping up with pinching/trimming very well to work on specific styles and compactness. I never got around to repotting, and after about three months I found my plants to be too dry most of the time, not developing well and very root bound. Ted King recommended potting the cuttings in 4″ containers and then repotting approximately every 45 days. Most importantly, keep a list of who ordered how many of which types. The cuttings tend to all look alike when potted up.Īlso, do not allow anyone to remove the supplied labels from the bags of cuttings until they are empty or you will become confused as to which bag is which variety of mum. We used chop sticks and a Sharpie marker to label each potted plant. You should have a good supply of markers of some type and a way to label them. I have a couple of suggestions to anyone sponsoring a Chrysanthemum workshop like this. Since the bags of all the varieties of cuttings were labeled nicely we had a very orderly early-April meeting to pot up the cuttings. I just left them in the baggies and instructed everyone in the club to bring some soil and nursery containers. That way I didn’t have to “do something with them” until the meeting. ![]() I had plenty of lead time in my order, so the nice people at King’s could get the mums to me the day before our April meeting. They were so cheap that all members ordered several of each variety. You will want as much “growing time” as possible before the next Fall blooming period. Each variety of cutting comes in a baggie with a label tag. The way that King’s handles the orders is they send your rooted cuttings on the date you specify. King’s specifically recommended seven varieties which they call “Gnomes” for Chrysanthemum bonsai.Īt the next bonsai meeting we passed around catalogs and had people sign up for ordering. I received the King’s catalog filled with color pictures and descriptions of over 250 varieties of Chrysanthemum. ![]() I was very attracted to the idea of having flowering bonsai at a time of year when nothing else is flowering in NE Ohio. I contacted the people at King’s about the possibility of using their mums for a workshop at the Akron/Canton Bonsai Society. When I asked about the variety, I was told they were from King’s Mums in California. Well, I simply “forgot” about Chrysanthemum bonsai until many years later when I saw some VERY dwarf varieties growing at an arboretum in Michigan. Max was a past ABS Director and founder of the Columbus Bonsai Society.Īt that time I tried to form a similar root-over-rock plant from a garden center mum but I wasn’t successful. In the late 1980s I saw and enjoyed, an established root-over-rock Chrysanthemum bonsai that was owned by the late Max Puderbaugh of Columbus, Ohio. ![]()
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