Re: cycad

don't know why you couldn't bonsai a sago. they're so slow growing, it would really be a low maintenance proposition. i've never seen one bonsai'd, but i have seen another cycad, zamia floridana, the coontie, grown that way and it was really cool. it looked like a big redwood burl with about six fronds sticking out of it.


At 04:12 PM 5/3/03 -0400, you wrote:
Speaking of cycads.........saw a sago palm that was a bonsai.  Cute as can
be.  It had tiny fronds on a pup base, in a bonsai pot......wasn't a young
pup though.   Could this be done with a regular sago pup, or was this perhaps
some type of miniature?? The friend that had it didn't know, but said they'd
had it for some years.   Anyone have any ideas?
Noreen
zone 9
Texas Gulf Coast

In a message dated 5/2/2003 11:02:30 PM Central Standard Time,
gardenchat-owner@hort.net writes:

> for those interested in the social behavior of cycads, my yard guy just
> cleaned up my king sago [which is a female] and we discovered that it has
> three pups. we knew it had one because it had branched out a couple of
> years ago. now, there are two new pups, as yet without fronds, nestled
> between the mother plant and the first pup.
>
> so, given time, water, and fertilizer, i should have a nice four stem
> cluster in a decade or so.

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