The 2025 Yamadori/Collecting Thread
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UncleTrout
Sapling
That is an awesome looking juniper! Nice find. I hope it makes it!
MrCarterthePotter
Seed
An American Beech that hasn’t got a hope or prayer. Dug out of the side parking lot where I work as they were expanding the sidewalk. Pretty sure I got two feeder roots and a single (partial) larger root. It’s pushing growth but I know it has a long way to go before it “survives”.
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Orion_metalhead
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Today: Better photos tomorrow:
shohin_branches
Omono
Your pumice dealer must be very happy right now
Orion_metalhead
Masterpiece
I have them in a mixture of stuff for now. 100% Pine Bark for two, pumice for 1, and the other a perlite, bark, compost mix.
Ill just be vigilant with watering for now.
Ill just be vigilant with watering for now.
Orion_metalhead
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treeline
Sapling
Grabbed a spectacular Littleleaf Mountain Mahogany this spring. It's by far the heaviest tree I've ever collected. Maybe 80 lbs? I lost a few branches, but the tree's starting to grow. Looks like I'll be lugging this into the garage this winter. 
87 Toyota Pickup for scale:
87 Toyota Pickup for scale:
J.M.curtis
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American Hornbeam collected over Winter in N. Georgia. Was very aggressive with root reduction based on how previous collections have gone and how strong trees are when they come out of the ground. It lived on a heat mat starting in Feb of this year until last week to help with recovery since I removed 100% of the fine roots.
Planted in a box with permatil, perlite and shredded bark.
Last photo was a few days ago. Pushing lots of new shoots. Excited to see this sumo-ish style hornbeams progress in a decade.
Planted in a box with permatil, perlite and shredded bark.
Last photo was a few days ago. Pushing lots of new shoots. Excited to see this sumo-ish style hornbeams progress in a decade.
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Mulberry bush. A bit late, but they are hard to kill. Got a lot of feeder roots. Need to pot it and sort it out. It's from abandoned area along the road slated for wherehouses. Used to be a BBQ joint now razed. The ground get mowed occasionally, which explains the shape. Today it was barely peeking over the grass.
Leaf reduction. They are the size of my fingertip.
Leaf reduction. They are the size of my fingertip.
ChrisKussun
Seedling
Found this amazing maple I had cut 5 years back while making a shelter in the forest with a buddy!
Dont know what the second growth to the extreme right of the picture will become as it is emerging from the same trunk/rootbase!
Planned to collect next spring!
Dont know what the second growth to the extreme right of the picture will become as it is emerging from the same trunk/rootbase!
Planned to collect next spring!
BobbyLane
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I collected 3 Field Elms in the middle of May. Not the best of timing, plus minimal root. They were part of a long root off a sucker.
Anyway, potted them up and have them in deep shade still. Im using the sweating method. The soil was initially saturated, then the trees are put in clear plastic bags, tops tied, no holes. Wet sphagnum moss placed on soil surface. Aim is to keep humidity extremely high. Misted every few days/weekly. Yesterday I opened the top of the bags and misted with seaweed water
These are the first pics I took mid may
Anyway, potted them up and have them in deep shade still. Im using the sweating method. The soil was initially saturated, then the trees are put in clear plastic bags, tops tied, no holes. Wet sphagnum moss placed on soil surface. Aim is to keep humidity extremely high. Misted every few days/weekly. Yesterday I opened the top of the bags and misted with seaweed water
These are the first pics I took mid may
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BobbyLane
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Some more recent pics.
I think the back budding is a result of them recently being hacked a bit when the grass was cut
The local council has been crudely hacking them back for years when maintaining the garden they were in, a lady who is renting the house said I could take them as long as I dont leave a mess
Fingers crossed.
Im actually pretty confident they'll be alright, at least one or two.
Fwiw without the bag, the current leaves would of been scorched by now.
The bag is reducing stress on the trees
I think the back budding is a result of them recently being hacked a bit when the grass was cut
The local council has been crudely hacking them back for years when maintaining the garden they were in, a lady who is renting the house said I could take them as long as I dont leave a mess
Fingers crossed.
Im actually pretty confident they'll be alright, at least one or two.
Fwiw without the bag, the current leaves would of been scorched by now.
The bag is reducing stress on the trees
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BobbyLane
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What you've done in last photo is pretty much how ive sawn the base off the larger of the Elms above, with 3 roots sticking out. The base under soil fills the pot and is flat as can be, so it will be a dream if roots emerge from that.
Are you using any special methods?
I put some rooting hormone powder around the cut, but that jelly slime elms exude made it hard to stick. I am thinking of bagging it like you did.
BobbyLane
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I have also dabbed some rooting powder on with a brush on these. I like this stuff.
Bagging will give it best chance.
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BobbyLane
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Its been a week, so misted these again with a little seaweed/water.
Few of the buds are beginning to extend and some buds emerging from old wood on trunk. The images are the two bigger ones.
Bagged em back up. Still in shade/dappled light.
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Uhm, semi-natural ebihara sweetgum. By semi-natural I mean it occurred on its own in the relative wild of abandoned truck stop being flattened for redevelopment. The rest is completely unnatural...
This tree grew over the carpet remnant and had no taproot whatsoever.
It's all do or die. The area is being bulldozed, I am glad I stopped on a holiday.
Wore gloves while I was chipping away at the yucky carpet and it grew in the area rife with poison ivy too.
There is quite a bit of fine roots. Hope it makes it.
And the yuck
This tree grew over the carpet remnant and had no taproot whatsoever.
It's all do or die. The area is being bulldozed, I am glad I stopped on a holiday.
Wore gloves while I was chipping away at the yucky carpet and it grew in the area rife with poison ivy too.
There is quite a bit of fine roots. Hope it makes it.
And the yuck
