Tropicals & Tender Perennials: YEAH!! My 1st Brug Blooms!, 0 by Kell

Kell wrote:
LOL...going way back on this thread....... Sorry Scoot, it never occurred to me you would cut off an 8 inch shoot to become an alley tree. This is why Dave's is so great. You get to see how other people approach things. I have never cut off such a small shoot to make an alley tree. I always wait till the sucker has grown to the height I want before I cut it off the mother plant and have it grow its own roots.

I find that a sucker will grow at an incredibly fast pace and become the height you want it within 2 months or less. It has the huge mother roots to draw on.

Here is a sucker to Big Yella that I am about to cut off and make my new Big Yella alley tree for the old Big Yella got too huge and also was slanted for I did not stake it straight. You can see the entire 10 feet is all almost all the fast growing green growth. It zoomed up in size. I want the bottom foot to be more woody before I cut it off, though I have rooted all green sprouts this tall with success though it can be trickier to do so successfully!

I was too close to take the pic in one shot, it is by a fence so I did it in 2 shots.