Haha hey guys. So my girlfriend really likes frangipani, it her favourite flower, so I decided to try and make a bonsai out of one. This is just a cutting from the garden that im growing in a small pot. I know frangipani have massive leaves but what the heck... :silly: its worthwhile giving it a shot, and trying some leaf reduction on it.

Give it a try, you never know!

You always keep the big leaves, even if you can reduce it, but it's always a good experiment to see how far you can reduce these leaves. I'm curious to see it in the future!

if im not mistaken that flower is the so called dezertrose here in our local we it "kalachuchi" calachuchi the stem of that tree is fleshy with white zap...i will upload a pic of that tree that looking old it a great inspiration,

Ya it has sticky white sap, its poisonous tho.. gives you a rash if you have it on you for too long. I know if i reduce the leaves i will still be stuck with big leaves, but at least i know in my mind they smaller than before haha.

Hello again. So its been a while now and it looks like the cutting has rooted . The leaves have begun to open up , which must be a good sign. They at a great size at the moment, and hopefully wont get any bigger. How they are now the biggest leaf is about 1/3 the size of a normal frangipani.

I took the pictures with my new camera, so i was just playing around :whistle:

Cool man,
I like to see how people explore new things.

Do you think yoou'll be able to manipulate the young branches?

Goold luck!

I think I should be able to, at the moment I don't think the leaves will get much bigger because they don't have a very big root system. Perhaps if I keep trimming the roots the leaves will never be able to grow to their full length. But that's just my thought on it, I could easily be wrong.