Recent content by Brian Van Fleet

Ahhh…cool! Didn’t think the frame looked quite like a Specialized, but couldn’t place it. The wheels and groupset however… I keep complaining about the aging motor on my bike too, doesn’t seem to help.😂

Cool tree, but overshadowed by that very nice bike😜.

Pyracantha. Fun trees to work with. Nice trunk.

I guess I would run it daily for a much shorter duration. Your pots are still going to dry out in 3 days, even buried.

That is a goner. No reason to have a JBP in the garage if you live in AL. If you wired it recently, that probably didn’t help as it likely disturbed/damaged the roots. Try again, just leave it outside in full sun, get good at watering timing and wait until fall to try any wiring.

Thanks. I will probably widen it a little more now that it has started to close in, but not much. The back of the trunk is all Shari to the ground, so I don’t want to be too aggressive on the front, even though it looks like it could handle it. Traditionally, you want the live vein to be...

Agreed, if you carefully excavate the soil to see where they’re connected to the main trunk, you’ll see what to do. Chances are the trunk is swelling (which is normal and good) just below the soil and those suckers are growing from that bulbous base. If that’s the case, I would remove them...

As in suckers? Maybe a photo would help.

After a little chop-chop…

Ended up not showing it last month, and noticed last night when shooting the assassin bug hanging out on it, that it had gotten rather bushy again. Today, it got another haircut…had to relocate the bug who was still there today. Before and after:

Sorry, but I’m with @leatherback in that is neither Itoigawa nor 15 years old. Been growing various varieties of Shimpaku for quite a while and this looks like a 3-4 year old rooted Shimpaku cutting. Just for comparison, here is a thread starting with a 10-year old itoigawa nursery stock in a...

Congrats and good luck. Aaron is a good dude and that museum is a pretty amazing place with some iconic trees.

Assassin bug on Itoigawa…big guy.

Most of us are in these two obsessions…er hobbies.😂

Nice and tidy!