Flame tree (forum)
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Kath Kermode starts with ...
I have a flame tree that is grafted onto Brachychiton ruprestre, the bottle tree. It was the first tree that I ever grafted and to begin with it grew well. It then started to flower and flowered three times in 18 months, with the last flowering 12 month ago. Ever since then it has been deciduous and it does not seem to want to grow leaves or die. I have dug it up and put it back in a pot where it gets a little more care but still nothing. Can anyone suggest to me how I can motivate it to grow leaves or does anyone know if the bottle tree is a compatible rootstock for the flame tree, brachychiton acerifolia?
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Time: 20th June 2007 2:45pm
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Recher says...
sounds compatible and fascinating.
any problem i believe is rupestris which is not particularly suited to our climate.
anyone with a vifgporous healthy rupestris?
Time: 21st June 2007 12:00pm
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Kath kermode says...
The rootstock is healthy and I am still desuckering it, it didn't mind being uprooted after 12 months in the ground and is back in the pot with the grafted section still dormant. I have other grafted flame trees on bottle tree happily growing and some that are just pushing new growth as we speak. None have either flowered as frequently or been dormant for such a long period, it has not made a leaf in over 18 months now, but neither does it look like it is dying.
Time: 21st June 2007 12:13pm
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