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Post  Robert Steven Sat Sep 17, 2011 9:35 am

This is the Bucida I brought back from Mexico last December, it was a gift from Enrique Castano. It grows pretty fast in the training pot...

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Post  Robert Steven Sat Sep 17, 2011 9:41 am

It was bare rooted and defoliated..thanks so much to Enrico !

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And this was just after arrival in Indonesia..in ICU...

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This might be the largest Bucida ever brought outside Mexico...


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Post  Robert Steven Sat Sep 17, 2011 9:43 am

And this is another Bucida I brought back from Puerto Rico few years ago. The small one was from air-layered...

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Post  PROTONWIRA Sat Sep 17, 2011 10:16 am

Robert Steven wrote:This is the Bucida I brought back from Mexico last December, it was a gift from Enrique Castano. It grows pretty fast in the training pot...

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It 's realy nice sofar. I love this species 'coz of its leaves.
Tks for your post.
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Post  Agus Pandetria Sat Sep 17, 2011 10:38 am

Lovely tree and a graceful movement Pak Robert.

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Post  jrodriguez Sat Sep 17, 2011 1:18 pm

The largest Bucida ever brought from Mexico? Definitely from Mexico to Indonesia.....but....

Robert,

Before Mexico came into the picture, these trees were collected from the Bahamian islands by A guy known as "the hippie", the late great Joe Samuels (R.I.P.), Carlos Consuegra, Harry Roberts, Mary Madison, Roberto del Pozo and other Floridians. Some of these trees found their way to Puerto Rico. In the early days, Bucida spinosa was known simply as Bahamian Black Olive or Spiny olive.

The Bahamian trees, very much like the Pemphis acidula from East Java, are more dynamic and contorted. Their Meixican counterparts seem to be more straight. You know what island life, sea water, constant wind and and living in the hurricane/typhoon path can do to a plant!

Anyhow, great tree and beautiful design.

Kind regards,

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Post  Guest Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:49 pm

Robert and Jose Luis,

Is this tree endemic to The Bahamian areas and Mexico? we have Bucida here, and the leaves looks the same as the ones you got but no way near the trunk character that your trees have. I have tried a large Bucida- my first tree, it died when I repot and cleaned the roots of the original garden soil. Embarassed
but yours never seems to mind being bare rooted.

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Post  Robert Steven Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:06 pm

I am not sure if I agree to what Jose said, at least, all the good Bucida bonsai I have ever seen (all with dramatic trunk lines and wild characters) are from Mexico..including this one I have.

Bucida is quite sensitive for repotting, but I learned the secret from the Mexican (Enrique is the expert in Bucida). When you do the repotting, you can do root prunning if neccessary, but then you need to defoliate...and the secret is to put the pot on a tray filled with water which cover about 1/3 of the pot. Then put it under shade until new shoots coming out in good health.
If you do severe roots prunning as I did for long transportation, after I repotted, I bandaged the trunk with wet fabric, cover the whole tree with plastic, put in the water tray and under shade until the new shoots coming out healthy enough. You need to make some holes on the plastic cover for breath, but keep the humidity and keep the bandages wet all the time....
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Post  jrodriguez Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:52 pm

Robert Steven wrote:I am not sure if I agree to what Jose said, at least, all the good Bucida bonsai I have ever seen (all with dramatic trunk lines and wild characters) are from Mexico..including this one I have.

Well, well....Is it possible to agree or disagree with something you have never seen? It took me a while, but I browsed through my archives and found some interesting pictures of Bucidas that I have worked with and that have been in bonsai pots sice the late 1960's, early '70's. I think the picutures will lead to to agree of the superior quality of Bahamian Bucida.

Also, the true Bucida spinosa master is Mr. Carlos W. Consuegra from Miami, Florida. His Bucida spinosa bonsai have been awarded by the late Saburo Kato and featured in Kinbon Bonsai. Also, he won the first ever Pedro Morales award with one of his collected Bucida Spinosa's

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This tree was collected in the late 60's by Jim Wilkin's, Floridian bonsai pioneer. His son Gary, also a bucida bonsai pioneer, maintains it in his collection.


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Post  jrodriguez Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:54 pm

To follow, an old picture of me besides a Bucida spinosa known as 'The horn of Plenty'. Note the beautiful hollow and contorted trunk. Collected in 1964. Simply amazing!!!

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Post  jrodriguez Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:57 pm

Young me working on one of my collected Spinosa's

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Post  jrodriguez Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:01 pm

A collected Bahamian Bucida spinosa, just starting to sprout. Picture taken in 1995. Again, nice hollow/contorted trunk and dead wood features. Note the nice bark.

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Post  jrodriguez Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:06 pm

So, the best material comes from Mexico? Hmm....I don't think so!

This collected Bahamian spinosa was chiseled out of its rocky outcrop in 1973 by the late great Joe Samuels. Purchased as raw untrained stock a year later by Mr. Carlos Consuegra, he shaped it into this beautiful slant style bonsai. Note the warty trunk, a feature common to Bahamian spinosa. Mr. Consuegra agreed to send me a recent picture of this and his other Spinosa's for the benefit of the forum participants. This was the tree featured in Kinbon Bonsai
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Post  jrodriguez Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:08 pm

Side by side....I just love these trees!

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Post  hiram Mon Sep 19, 2011 1:53 am

I don't know where the best bucidas come form but one thing i can tell you is that, they are amazing bonsai material. One of my teachers, Carlos Consuegra has a few of the last of the Bahamian Bucidas brought over here. Yes, they are spectacular specimens. He also has one called " The Airplane" which is quite interesting. The bottom line is if you are blessed to have one of these species, consider yourself one of the fortunate ones. This year I was blessed again by the Bonsai Gods with a dwarf leaf bucida. The internodes are around an 1/8" of an inch apart, which the normal one is around 1/2" apart. Allen Carver from Jupiter Bonsai sold it to me. It is going to be an amazing specimen. What I have learned form Bucidas is, DON'T MESS WITH THE ROOTS. If you transplant just cut around the root ball, DO NOT COMB OR REMOVE ALL THE SOIL. You will see the a difference. Good luck my fellow Bonsai dudes. thumbs up thumbs up thumbs up
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Post  carlos Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:00 am

Who the hell are the so called bonsai gods? That's pretty silly.

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Post  Guest Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:10 am

carlos wrote:Who the hell are the so called bonsai gods? That's pretty silly.


They live in Mount Fuji of Japan.

Once every century they mate with mortals and the children will become demi gods also known as bonsai masters. Razz

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Post  john5555leonard Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:27 am

i don,t care wether they come from mexico or florida or porto rico , they look great, does anybody know if they grow in thailand or not ????? regards john . ps the olives from europe can be cut out with no roots and they grow new ones, obviously not the same , and the master of those is luis vallejo from majorca

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Post  Guest Mon Sep 19, 2011 3:29 am

Hi John. If this is the same specie or sub specie we commonly used here in landscaping I think it is available too in Thailand.
I will try to take pictures of our bucidas

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Post  Robert Steven Mon Sep 19, 2011 11:09 am

John, Montri in Bangkok has quite a lots, he grows them on ground, but the one with larger leaves...

Hiram, you can do it if you follow the way I mentioned above... The one I brought back from Mexico which went a long way for more than 30 hours, we cleaned totally, severely bare-rooted..no problem !

Jose, I am not trying to prove either Mexican bucida or Bahamian is better (it's not important) and who is the true Bucida master (I said Enrique was a Bucida "expert"). At least I have seen the Bucida collection of Enrique, hundreds of giant and spectacular materials..and his Bucida bonsai.. thumbs up
I don't care if he is the true Bucida master, but he is truely an expert in this species. Not only his collection speaks, but his research on this species and he teachs scientifically (not only from experience), he is a a Ph D in biochemistry and biophysics and he is dedicating his knowledge into bonsai; not so many of such expert I guess...and what he told me, works ! Very Happy
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Post  Robert Steven Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:32 pm

Here are among the Bucida materials from Enrique's collection we used during the recent convention in Mexico...

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Post  Robert Steven Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:52 pm

Enrique Castano with one of his Bucida...

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Post  Guest Mon Sep 19, 2011 1:04 pm

Robert Steven wrote:Enrique Castano with one of his Bucida...

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WOOOOOOOOW! cyclops

No way near the bucida I saw here.


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Post  carlos Mon Sep 19, 2011 1:08 pm

jun wrote:
carlos wrote:Who the hell are the so called bonsai gods? That's pretty silly.


They live in Mount Fuji of Japan.

Once every century they mate with mortals and the children will become demi gods also known as bonsai masters. Razz

Now that's very funnyY!!!!! cheers

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Post  jrodriguez Mon Sep 19, 2011 1:26 pm

Robert Steven wrote:Jose, I am not trying to prove either Mexican bucida or Bahamian is better (it's not important) and who is the true Bucida master (I said Enrique was a Bucida "expert"). At least I have seen the Bucida collection of Enrique, hundreds of giant and spectacular materials..and his Bucida bonsai.. 👍I don't care if he is the true Bucida master, but he is truely an expert in this species. Not only his collection speaks, but his research on this species and he teachs scientifically (not only from experience), he is a a Ph D in biochemistry and biophysics and he is dedicating his knowledge into bonsai; not so many of such expert I guess...and what he told me, works ! Very Happy

Robert,

I apologize if my previous replies insulted or offended you in any way. That was not my intention.

I too do not desire to start a pissing contest. I just wanted to state the fact of a low profile individual that has been studying these trees since the early 1970's. The recovery steps you mention have been published by him a loooong time ago. The reason they discovered this is the fact that cultivated Bucida, when planted in the ground, seemed to always send fibrous roots to nearby house drains, more than often causing plumbing issues to the proprietors. When the plumbers came, 100% of the time they found a very long root pad that spanned the entire length of the drain pipe. They simply love water.

Mr. Consuegra learned a great deal from the late Mr. Alain Lioger, the foremeost botanical expert in the Caribbean, which identified and named most of the flora in our region.

Just yesterday I spoke to Mr. Consuegra and Gary Wilkins about this subject. They both seem to agree that the Bahama bucidas are more contorted and the Mexican ones straighter. They also told me that the natural habitat in which they grow in Merida has more soil media, which contributes to their large size and root mass. The bahamian bucidas grow on coral rock and they seldom have any roots.

One question? Given the fact that Bucidas are sensitive about their root system, why do these trees seem to be recently uprooted and not planted? Also, the leaves are a bit opaque, a give away sign of dehydration. Were these recently collected for the demostrations?

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