Specialty Gardening: Bougainvilla Bonsai, 0 by Fish_knees

Fish_knees wrote:
I had a 6 yr old that I had removed because it was in a bad place to begin & had gotten too big. My maintenance guy butchered it getting it out, I had planned on tossing it, so he wasn't careful. 1/2 hour later after it lay in full sun, tap root hacked off, I thought darn! I should have saved it for Bonsai. So I cut the top off and stuck it in a bucket of water with some vitamin B1. I left it for a couple days and then potted it up. 3 weeks later I saw little green buds ☺ This pic shows it with a lot of the roots exposed and growing like crazy. In the Fall when it cools off I'll probably trim it up and get it in a shallow pot. So I would say go for it, their pretty tough.