The name satsuki hail from the old lunar calendar in Japan that started in our modern calendar in February, not in January. So fifth month then would be late May early June.

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

Cool! Thank you so much!

So glad I watched this. I had totally forgotten about azaleas needing acid soil. No wonder my cuttings failed 🤦 the water here is very hard.

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

:) Not go out and correct!

Thank you Jelle. Extremely interesting and informative and no gimmicks! Pure botany and horticulture, plus eye-candy! Win, win, win! God bless you 🙏✝️. ✌️🇷🇺☮️🇺🇦✌️

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! I know you do not ike the gimmicks. But sometimes.. Sometimes you need to get a little play in there to keep people interested, sigh

@gayefanner731

11 ай бұрын

Yep, I know n it’s not easy to camera either, you’re doing great 👌

This was a really good watch Jelle. Lots of information and lots of stuff about flower colours I didnt know. Great stuff :)

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Do you have satsukis?

@XaviersBonsaiRetreat

11 ай бұрын

I have quite a few and then loads of cuttings. I'm still trying to get the leaf mottling issue sorted on my biggest one. Horrible reds with some black splodges :)@@GrowingBonsai

Ok, that is probably the coolest thing I learned! I had no idea those azaleas did this! I got mine just for the colour. The flowers are far larger this season. I'm not certain what type mine are. Not Satsuki LOL! Great video Jelle! Thank you!

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

Great! Happy there was something new for you there!

Really good info in the video and I learned a couple things about satsuki azaleas, like them slowly reverting to 1 color and there being a specific point on a branch where they "flip" colors. If anyone wants a good cold hardy Satsuki Azalea variety, maybe look into Rhododendron indicum 'Wakaebisu'. This is my only satsuki (pre bonsai) and I love it. It has coral pink flowers and is rated cold hardy to -20 C / -5 F (rated for in-ground) which is Zone 6 here in the U.S. I eventually want to try a multi color or striped satsuki variety that is relatively cold hardy. I'm open to suggestions.

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

:)

fantastic video why cant we find small nursery satsuki we have to buy 150 euros bonsai satsuki where are the 1 year old plants ! someone could make a fortune just selling the 1 year old from cuttings

I went back and looked at your video on what you were saying about the solids and the ones that have striping or multicolored variations I purchased a Satsuki Azalea variety Kongo-No-Hikari it has a salmon colored flower that has salmon white and white with striping the plant I got just flowered and all the flowers were solid salmon my question for you or anybody out there does this mean that I have one that will not produce multicolored because when I purchased this I was assured that it was a multicolored flowering Satsuki

Thanks for this great advice

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Very interesting.👀 Thank you Jelle 👍

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Nice video nice azeala keep up the good work mate thanks jelle

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do!

I really struggle with removing the unburst blower buds, TBH! I want to get the last gasp of enjoyment from the colour before they go back to being green and "drab". And, while I love the striped flowers, I would not turn down a solid colour tree for this reason!

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

:) Fair point!

I hope these don't go on the compost like the elms. I lost my satsuki azalea in April, it had survived the winter and looked like it was going to flower but slowly died. My ordinary one is OK and may flower this year. Here they are quite an expensive plant. Keep growing.xx

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely not! I will sort these to my stock plants, and plants to give away. :) Satsuki are oddly enough not easy to get a hold off

I always have the same problem with one of my Japanese azaleas, in spring it grows wonderfully and in summer the new shoot grows yellowish, I give it iron and it doesn't work, and the fertilizer is the same as always

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

could it be too wet?

@albert6011

11 ай бұрын

i though that, I started to watering less the tree 2 weeks ago, so I will wait if the situation changes and the azalea recovers , is full bloom so , I will eliminate the flowers too

I'm curious do they produce flushes of growth in the late summer?

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

Mine are growing right now!

@CDF936

11 ай бұрын

@@GrowingBonsai same! I wasn't sure at first because I am new to azaleas but mine is pushing buds right now.

👍🌸🙂👌

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

:D

Would you treat dwarf azaleas exactly the same?

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

I am not sure what you mean with this exactly, so I would guess no!

Do you have a cutting I can Have I can pay postage etc I live france thanks

I don't understand the bias against pink flowers. If I like pink flowers more than white flowers, why would I care about preserving branches with white flowers?

@GrowingBonsai

11 ай бұрын

Not so much a bias against thepink. But once a branch reverts to pink, it normally does not turn back. Which means that f you prune the wrong branches, over time, you loose the variety in flower color/petals in your tree, which is not the idea.