Collected vines

[ABCarve]

Here's a wisteria and trumpet vine I did today from a pals yard. It took the band saw to tame the root balls enough to pot them up. I used a partial mix with grow stone to lighten the load. The soil media is probably half the weight of normal. I've never used it before so I'll see how it goes. Wisteria's pretty hard to kill, but after the band saw.........well, I just dare them to live.

 

[ABCarve]

Almost forgot......here a porcelain berry from yesterday.

 

[GrimLore]

Honest - that root cutting on the Wisteria just tickled it Kept damp you will be very surprise how it is going to bounce back. All three look like fun digs -and done nicely. Noticed the snow piles This area of the Commonwealth is at a point that the snow is all gone

Grimmy

 

[Cadillactaste]

Nice haul there!

 

[ABCarve]

Honest - that root cutting on the Wisteria just tickled it Kept damp you will be very surprise how it is going to bounce back. All three look like fun digs -and done nicely. Noticed the snow piles This area of the Commonwealth is at a point that the snow is all gone

Grimmy

Thanks for the vote of confidence Grimmy. How'd your monster dig go??

Wisteria is hard to kill. The American Wisteria in the picture started out as a piece of firewood. Literally cut from the middle of the vine..3" in dia......no roots, no foliage, no branches. It was put into wet peat and now it's hard to control. Really high maintenance for only flowering 3 times in 22 years. I'm a little too far from the lake to keep it from getting frosted.

 

[GrimLore]

People tend to take the word "invasive" lightly

Here is a quick look at the before and after on the yew. As is the tub and stump are a little over 200 pounds but it went well.

Grimmy

 

[ABCarve]

People tend to take the word "invasive" lightly

Here is a quick look at the before and after on the yew. As is the tub and stump are a little over 200 pounds but it went well.

Grimmy

I guess that'll help get rid of that tummy you were complaining about Good luck with that!

 

[Cadillactaste]

Thanks for the vote of confidence Grimmy. How'd your monster dig go??

Wisteria is hard to kill. The American Wisteria in the picture started out as a piece of firewood. Literally cut from the middle of the vine..3" in dia......no roots, no foliage, no branches. It was put into wet peat and now it's hard to control. Really high maintenance for only flowering 3 times in 22 years. I'm a little too far from the lake to keep it from getting frosted.
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Interesting...so one can take cuttings without dealing with an air layer...

 

[ABCarve]

Interesting...so one can take cuttings without dealing with an air layer...

Yep...I'm sure it's a timing thing....spring. When I did it we were tearing out the wild native from an oak tree it was killing along the lake, chainsawing up the larger vines. Someone helping made the suggestion...so I gave it a try....nothing to lose. It's an American Wisteria, which gives it the distinction of leafing out before it blooms, partially hiding its blossoms. On a small scale, not very spectacular, however, there is a large one locally that has climbed into and killed a very large oak tree. It has used the dead trees branch structure to fill it out completely. Kind of a giant tanuki. When it blooms the prolific flowers hang from the dead branches where they are entirely visible. It close to 40 feet high and magnificent. Probably won't bloom this year due to the extreme winter.

 

[mcpesq817]

ABC, watch out for dieback on the wisteria. I had a double helix like trunk on mine which was a good 8-10" at the base, and one of the trunks just rotted off and died. I still am having dieback issues in the trunk even though the thing puts out growth like mad. It's just something that happens on large collected wisteria.

 

[ABCarve]

I hear you loud and clear. The one I have in the ground, its original collected trunk totally rotted away. I'm not sure what'll happen with this one, but not sure what I can do about it proactively. I'll try to roll with the flow!