Satsuki Azalea as Bonsai

How to manage satsuki azalea flowers?
Grow Satsuki Azalea as a bonsai?
‪@kennethstensrud669‬ gave the following usefull additional info: 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.

[@gayefanner731]

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

[@GrowingBonsai]

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]

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

[@drfreddave9020]

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]

:) Not go out and correct!

[@kennethstensrud669]

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]

Cool! Thank you so much!

[@DeciduousSnurb]

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]

:)

[@XaviersBonsaiRetreat]

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

[@GrowingBonsai]

Glad you enjoyed it! Do you have satsukis?

[@XaviersBonsaiRetreat]

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

[@stemack1975]

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

[@FrostBiteBonsai]

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]

Great! Happy there was something new for you there!

[@williamscott791]

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

[@nerinat8371]

Thanks for this great advice

[@GrowingBonsai]

You are so welcome!

[@liefdegator1]

Very interesting.👀 Thank you Jelle 👍

[@GrowingBonsai]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@rebeccahunter725]

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]

:) Fair point!

[@phillipwaterman5721]

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

[@GrowingBonsai]

Thanks, will do!

[@mandyhernon2238]

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]

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

[@albert6011]

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]

could it be too wet?

[@albert6011]

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

[@CDF936]

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

[@GrowingBonsai]

Mine are growing right now!

[@CDF936]

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

[@stemack1975]

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

[@brucedeacon28]

👍🌸🙂👌

[@GrowingBonsai]

:D

[@martifish]

Would you treat dwarf azaleas exactly the same?

[@GrowingBonsai]

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

[@damontolhurst]

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]

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.