{"id":87,"date":"2009-09-07T16:02:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T08:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happybonsai.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2009-09-07T16:02:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T08:02:14","slug":"start-growing-bonsai-cutting-propagation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/07\/start-growing-bonsai-cutting-propagation\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Growing Bonsai from Cutting Propagation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_88\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Growing Bonsai from Cutting Propagation\" href=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88\" title=\"Growing Bonsai from Cutting Propagation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.happybonsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-04-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Growing Bonsai from Cutting Propagation\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-04-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-04-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-04.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of my Crape Myrtle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Besides the <a title=\"My First Bonsai Trees\" href=\"http:\/\/www.happybonsai.com\/200908\/my-first-bonsai-trees\/\">two bonsai trees<\/a>, I have also got two small Crape Myrtle (aka  Lagerstroemia indica , or \u7d2b\u8587 in Chinese) cuttings from the mini bonsai class of Hong Kong Institute of Lingnan Penjing.  In less than 1.5 months, both cuttings have grown some new branches ,and now are blooming beautifully with some bright pink flowers and red berries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_89\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Growing Bonsai from Cutting Propagation\" href=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89 \" title=\"Growing Bonsai from Cutting Propagation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.happybonsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-01-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Growing Bonsai from Cutting Propagation\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-01-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-01.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Crape Myrtle 6 weeks ago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This was how the two Crape Myrtle cuttings looked when I first got them in the class six weeks ago.  The cuttings were around 5 cm tall.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_90\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Growing Bonsai from Cutting Propagation\" href=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90\" title=\"Growing Bonsai from Cutting Propagation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.happybonsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-02-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Growing Bonsai from Cutting Propagation\" width=\"200\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Training my Crape Myrtle with wires<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_91\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Growing Bonsai from Cutting Propagation\" href=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91\" title=\"Growing Bonsai from Cutting Propagation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.happybonsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-03-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Growing Bonsai from Cutting Propagation\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-03-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-03-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-cutting-propagation-03.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Training my Crape Myrtle with wires<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>To train the branches and establish the shape of these little bonsai trees, I have already started wiring the shoots.  I did this as gentle as possible.  Hopefully, I didn&#8217;t crack anything&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides the two bonsai trees, I have also got two small Crape Myrtle (aka Lagerstroemia indica , or \u7d2b\u8587 in Chinese) cuttings from the mini bonsai class of Hong Kong Institute of Lingnan Penjing. In less than 1.5 months, both cuttings have grown some new branches ,and now are blooming beautifully with some bright pink &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/07\/start-growing-bonsai-cutting-propagation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Start Growing Bonsai from Cutting Propagation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}