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Post by garrett on Nov 8, 2013 9:50:54 GMT -5
as in the orchard section? how we plant up dem freebie cuttings? or bulbs or just roots? or recessitate dem poor gimpy curbside orphans? fer the redneck gardener who be po? smiles
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Post by garrett on Dec 6, 2013 9:52:38 GMT -5
dumped 8 or so heavy bags out in the middle orchard/garden area.full of half dead flowerbed plants.frosted last week.roots looked good.covered em all up with leaves.we'll see come spring what they do.mulch grow or compost ...lol I win either way.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2013 18:45:24 GMT -5
I have a pot of seedlings from seed I picked at a local garden center. Of course I didn't save the name.
The were a nice looking shrubby seedling.
I expect I'll give them away next spring as mystery bushs. ;D
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Post by garrett on Dec 15, 2013 1:58:14 GMT -5
grins...leafy bounty?
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Post by marielouise on Dec 15, 2013 10:06:39 GMT -5
I came across a different idea for rooting hard wood cuts using a potato--- have not tried it but basically you poke a hole in a tater and then stick your cutting into the tater hole. Its suppose d to help maintain moisture and encourage rooting ... moisture loss is the main cause of failure to root . I plan on trying it with a cutting from one of my rose bushes , will probley start it in Feb., along with a couple other cuttings done the "normal" way with potting soil and plastic baggie tent.
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Post by garrett on Dec 15, 2013 19:09:58 GMT -5
hmnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn interesting ml.thanks
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2013 14:00:38 GMT -5
Moving a big ol' tree from field to a pot is a matter of stages.
Cut the top of the tree down to the lowest leafy branch. Cut the roots in a circle between one and two spade widths out from the trunk. Let it grow till next year (in field).
Next year, dig up tree and cut back root ball so's it'll fit in the biggest pot you have. Prune the top back down to the lowest existing leafy branch. Pot (Garret has seen examples of the soil I'm talking about).
I'll be back with the next installment inna few.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2013 15:28:12 GMT -5
Mind my idea of a lovely pot for a tree, may look suspiciously like a thimble to somebody else.
That first year in a training pot is often a pretty substantial landscape pot, or a cut down five gallon pail. I don't really do anything that first year to saw the tap root short, or, rinse off soil that admits little air. Do put this on the shady end of your bench, or even underneath the bench.
The second year (in a training pot) I will take what often looks like a baseball bat with a few leaves and saw down the tap-root to present a lower profile, and rinse off clay-ey soil.
When it comes time to repack the stump into a pot, I'd still recommend a too big pot because it is easier to pick-in bonsai soil. This needs a chop stick and many hundreds of pokes to work soil between roots. Continue with keeping your about to become bonsai in at least part shade.
One year three you can start to look at your trees feet with a bonsai pot in mind. Rinse soil off the roots and re-pot to a pot you feel comfortable will support all the roots you have left. Pick soil into roots again.
It may end up that in order to get the profile you want you may ground-layer the entire tree.
More on that latter.
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Post by garrett on Dec 18, 2013 10:08:59 GMT -5
cool....smiles
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Post by marielouise on Dec 20, 2013 9:44:04 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2013 16:28:38 GMT -5
It is possible to girdle the entire tree just above the soil line and dust the inner wood with rooting hormone. and repot it into a deeper pot there by burying the wound.
A second set of roots will erupt at the edge of the bark above the wound when you check your ground-layer the following spring. The old roots will have been starved and can be sawn off. This will allow a very low profile in a new and shallower bonsai pot.
Plan on wiring this new tree into his new pot because he will be quite top-heavy. I have threaded a stiff wire through a drain and lashed the trunk to the wire to keep all the parts in the right sequence (and upright).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2013 14:55:42 GMT -5
Two of my favorite foraged flowers are: Rose rugosa, and echinacea. I forage for spent flowers or fruiting bodies cuz they are big enough for my old eyes to find. the resulting seed is also big enough to find easily inside. Rose rugosa makes a nice fat orangey-red hip that even frozen is pickable and seed is easy to separate from the rind. It does need a winters cold stratification outdoors. I probably have described (stratification) it in the past, but will again if needed. Echinacea aka purple cone flower holds onto its spent seed head; the prickly bits are not seed. The bullet shaped bits are. This is tough grassland perrenial plant. I like flowers I cannot kill.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2013 15:12:28 GMT -5
Today in just a few minutes I twisted the prickly bits and seed off of about fifty cones.
This seedy mess laid out on a plate is easily pulled apart with a single finger tip. The prickly bits get thumbed into small piles and discarded (into compost) and seed goes into a mason jar.
I've already mailed out about a pint of seed. This batch is just something to do to keep busy.
It'll end up at Robin's or Trudi's
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Post by garrett on Jan 7, 2014 18:45:04 GMT -5
expecting a lotta plant fodder this weekend as we froze 2 nights in a row....
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Post by garrett on Jan 11, 2014 10:12:21 GMT -5
will be interesting to see what's out on the curb today following our freeze.lol
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Post by garrett on Jan 11, 2014 10:48:45 GMT -5
bout two months ago I planted 6 of my poor lil rescue roses that had been cut at the graft union. backfilled em with leaves.happy to report 4 of the six look good.and one of em is trying like hell.smiles i'll get around to dropping the rest.smiles
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Post by garrett on Jan 11, 2014 10:49:14 GMT -5
gonna have to wait till april or so to see how the rescue bushes did.
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Post by garrett on Jan 14, 2014 1:16:17 GMT -5
kiddo and I curbraided a perfectly good 4 foot tall rose bush sunday.go figure.lol
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2014 14:53:06 GMT -5
Blueberry boxwood and azalea have been curb-side plunder for me in the past.
All three make fine bonsai of a dimension I could only afford as somebody elses' trash.
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Post by garrett on Jan 15, 2014 15:00:04 GMT -5
one man's trash is an opportunist's treasure? smiles
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Post by garrett on Jan 15, 2014 18:51:50 GMT -5
planted 3 more of the resue roses.
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Post by garrett on Jan 29, 2014 11:00:52 GMT -5
copp how them seeds a doing.....rose rehab continues here.lol
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Post by garrett on Feb 9, 2014 17:26:41 GMT -5
snagged some leaves today.kiddo and I drove by a pile of brush. wasn't brush per se. it was a whole truckload of red tea roses. got 38 clumps of roses planted on the orchard border. wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez.garrets monochromatic rose patch. red red roses baby.lol
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Post by garrett on Feb 9, 2014 20:48:20 GMT -5
ot the girls watered in...lol time will tell......
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2014 10:40:57 GMT -5
Cuttings
I'll start with hearty azalea and bald cypress. Not cause they are trees that propagation of, has a burning love in Reds heart to do. Rather they were trees is has been hard for me to relaibley (read cheap) to source.
Yankees find bald cypress a nine day wonder in the north. I'm not at all sure why. They naturally occur in wetlands as far north as larch's home range. Like in the bottom third of Minnesota.
Hearty azalea is the upland cousin all over the southeast.
Still it was often a PITA to get them.
I use two plastic peanut-butter jars with the tops cut down into ball-jar looking rings. I glue the two rings together and drill at least one hole in the bottom of each jar.
This builds a rather hour-glass looking critter I can water from above and will dribble excess water out of. I fill the bottom jar with 1/2 peat moss, and 1/2 masons sand mixed together. Substitutions do not improve your germination percentage.
I take either azalea or bald cypress when it is dormant I want the twigs at the end of a branch. Because BC is deciduous I leave the unopened buds on the end each branch intact and rub (gently) off the ones on the stem. For azalea leave the end two leaves on and pluck the others off.
The top one inch or so of my four inch long twigs gets no rooting hormone. The rest of the stems do.
I dry fire a hole for each twig with a pencil and fit just as many as I can into each jar. Screw on the ring and siamese twin jar. and water from above.
Mostly I water every day it don't rain.
I store these outdoors where the jar can get filtered sun. In four weeks or less there will be new leaves growing. In another eight the twigs will have roots.
I open up and ease out soil and growing twigs in September. I promptly pot them into individual cells (2-3/4" X 2-3/4" rose pots) and let the grow till spring. If I think my new tree babies are facing a hard transplanting, I may give them another year in one gallon pots to bulk up their roots.
This extra year gives a 12" to 24" inch tall top with a mess of roots.
I cannot imagine why a dormant rose cutting would not grow from this approach.
For the life of me I have no idea why John Best hasn't chimed in on this thread, He is three of me at propagating stuff.
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Post by garrett on Feb 12, 2014 11:16:56 GMT -5
thanks fer the intel copp. you da man...smiles hoping with valentines day approaching i'll snag a bunch of cuttings. kinda fun not knowing what these are.it's the ultimate gardeners crackerjack prize. you won't know what the prize is unless it lives lol a built in incentive to keep it going?
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Post by garrett on Feb 12, 2014 11:18:09 GMT -5
my boss dropped off a box of her rose cuttings yesterday. i'll drop them later today...
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Post by garrett on Feb 12, 2014 15:52:14 GMT -5
ok got 60-70 canes planted in groups. went behind em alllllllllllll with more mulch.mostly pine straw from the other day. found a bigggggggggg pile of canes in town but they were all dark shiny brown. can those be planted or are those dried out and dead?
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Post by garrett on Feb 13, 2014 12:24:45 GMT -5
found 9 climbing rose canes.ollllllllllllllllllld wood. in front of a 50's house in town they are redoing.planted em in the patch.kinda puny looking so no expectations.smiles
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Post by garrett on Feb 13, 2014 12:25:19 GMT -5
harvested some rose hips off mom's roses.shhhhhhhhhhhhh don't say a word.rotfl
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