I don't know how many annuals would work as bonsai, even this guy is on the line between a companion plant and a bonsai. I think if he continues his current trend and gets a rougher looking 'bark', I can officially call him a bonsai.
I don't have an exact measure, but I just measured a pop can and that's just under 5inches tall (pop can used for scale in the first post). I'm guessing with his new pot he's probably just that size.
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I don't have a lot of experience training bonsai, so it would probably be good practice--especially since thsese flowers are easy to propagate and quick growing. And you can practice on the extras, such as amending the reverse taper.
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I wouldn't call it training in the terms of wiring and branch shaping, as I can't wire this guy at all - the slightest pressure and it snaps. But it would be good for developing snip 'n grow techniques, and just for working on your 'eye'. That's what I'm treating this as, an exercise in design.
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Do you keep your impatiens in one of your little glass house thingies so you don't have to water it as much? It seems like that tiny pot would dry out quick.
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He lives outside of one of my greenhouses, as he can go a day and a half without watering. Not much longer, if I go two days the leaves start to wilt. But it recovers fast, and even the one time that I lost all the leaves, I got back to it soon enough that it immediately releafed out. I actually got the current crop of even smaller leaves after that. The pic in the display shows leaves that are slightly smaller than normal for it, but the new pics in the first post actually have smaller leaves yet. I have had success with putting a water bottle over him when I was out of town, but the last time I did that he was very rootbound so he dried out faster than before. That's why I repotted him after he leafed back out. I'll probably have to repot him twice a year if he keeps up the same amount of growth - totally pot bound from an initial June potting to Dec.
-Centaura