The Barber
Chumono
Bought a 10x20ft tent style carport for the frame, then hung shade cloth to protect my yamadori, then did my weekly fertilizer yesterday. Summer is coming up fast. Gonna build benches in there next.
The 2025 Yamadori/Collecting Thread
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Cajunrider
Imperial Masterpiece
Good find!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.
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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.
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And the yuck
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The Barber
Chumono
Did some light wiring while the branches are still young on a few of my collected hornbeams this evening.
chicago1980
Omono
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Question:
How often are you misting your collected junipers and how long per day?
If you mist at all.
Thank you for the feedback.
How often are you misting your collected junipers and how long per day?
If you mist at all.
Thank you for the feedback.
Orion_metalhead
Masterpiece
When I walk past them I spray the foliage. That is all.
ponderingsage
Mame
I mist my collected junipers every 4 hours for 2 min day and night… l have a pretty basic timer.
If in partial shade l cover the surface with wood scraps to avoid too much wetting of the soil.
Cruiser
Omono
Pseudotsuga menziesii menziesii (Douglastree)
“…at the road's end a footpath leads you directly up into the un-disturbed and solemn stand where Douglastrees of towering height mingle with Hemlocks and Cedars only a little less tall. It is very dim and cool under the close canopy; seldom does a sunbeam reach to the forest floor where the mosses seem not to have been trodden since the Ice Age. And everywhere you look the great shafts of the Fir close up the aisles with their dark, deeply furrowed bark. From time to time the mountain wind goes seething through the high canopy above you, as if the whole forest were breathing as one ancient organism.”
-D. Peattie A Natural History of Western Trees
“…at the road's end a footpath leads you directly up into the un-disturbed and solemn stand where Douglastrees of towering height mingle with Hemlocks and Cedars only a little less tall. It is very dim and cool under the close canopy; seldom does a sunbeam reach to the forest floor where the mosses seem not to have been trodden since the Ice Age. And everywhere you look the great shafts of the Fir close up the aisles with their dark, deeply furrowed bark. From time to time the mountain wind goes seething through the high canopy above you, as if the whole forest were breathing as one ancient organism.”
-D. Peattie A Natural History of Western Trees
Cajunrider
Imperial Masterpiece
To close out this swamp BC collecting era, I visited the swamp and collect this relatively rare twin trunk.
It's started to grow in the bag. We are getting a couple of cloudy and drizzly days and I left the bag opened a bit.
doc spring _work
Chumono
Strongly considering going up and collecting some gamble oak from the mountains, does anyone have experience collecting clonal trees? Given the long roots and clonal nature im not sure how one might collect one without damaging it or the surrounding stand? I assume I should be prepared for a lot more work then other collections..
These are amazing. How are they doing at the end of June? Anything you can share about the soil conditions you found them in?
Orion_metalhead
Masterpiece
So far so good.
They all look healthy. The fact that some branches have died off or been let die off by the tree gives me a clear indication or contrast between the living or dying parts. So far the large ones all seem strong. I might even be seeing some new growth on them.
Soil was pretty sandy, detritus filled, and rocky along the side of a highway. The trees all had decent root balls and I feel I got a decent amount of finer roots for each specimen. I dug them on a rainy day as well which helped keep anything from drying out.
BobbyLane
Imperial Masterpiece
One of the Field Elms collected in may. Tony tickle states the bag can be taken off after shoots reach 5cm in length, many shoots have reached that length but will wait for a change in the weather/heatwave we're having in the UK
So, this one ended up not a spicebush (lindera benzoin), but a wintergreen golly (ilex verticillata).
It's doing well.
Attmos
Chumono
I keep being told that bare rooting a collected tree (or any tree for that matter) is a good way to kill it, but I see a lot of that on this site.
Greatly depends on the species...I keep being told that bare rooting a collected tree (or any tree for that matter) is a good way to kill it, but I see a lot of that on this site.
Baron von Smoogle
Yamadori
Eight out of the ten trees I collected this year are still alive and doing well. The other two sprouted leaves and looked like they were going to make it but suddenly turned brown and died. The two Black Cherries received the black bag treatment in grow boxes, the rest were potted up in plastic training pots with bag treatment. The Cherries were potted in pure Turface and the rest in a mix of Turface, Lava, pumice, and Biochar. None of the trees had any fine feeder roots to speak of.
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ponderingsage
Mame
Cool material. What’s the vision?
DeepSouth
Mame
I've never tried collecting BC in the summer. Do they typically respond well?
Cajunrider
Imperial Masterpiece
The main thing is to keep the collected tree well watered and only 2-3 hrs of morning sun. They respond very well.
