Hi, Michelia champaca saplings grown from seeds take about 12 to 15 years to flower, whereas grafted ones flower immediately within 2 to 3 years most often while still in their polythene bags. With regards, Neil Soares.
--- On Sat, 11/3/12, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: From: jmgarg1 <[email protected]> Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:137214] Michelia champaca flowering To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Date: Saturday, November 3, 2012, 5:54 PM Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter please. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Satish <[email protected]> Date: 29 October 2012 11:24 Subject: [efloraofindia:136599] Michelia champaca flowering To: [email protected] Hi, I'm looking for information on Michelia Champaca. We are planting some trees in our colony and I procured about 30 odd saplings from the Forest Nursery. However, one of the local nursery guy mentioned that the Champaca saplings grown from seed (which is what most Forest nursery folks do) take a long time to flower (~10yrs) and that is the reason the grafted ones are sold in the local nurseries. Is this true? How tall/fast will a champaca sapling grow and how long for it to flower? Thanks -- -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2000 members & 1,37,000 messages on 31/10/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 7500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- --
