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[KateM]

Plant the root ball and see if it sprouts.

That's a good idea. Crabs sprout from root cuttings easily.

Pic tax - columnar white pine at work. The resin coming out of the cones was glistening in the sun...
The pic does not capture it...

 

[MalsRFun in TN]

Plant the root ball and see if it sprouts.

I did that right away with the tops of the broken roots above the soil. I hope it grows, but I'm disappointed about losing the large top of the tree. Not the greatest bonsai prospect, but pretty pink blooms and tiny fruit.

 

[Hack Yeah!]

I did that right away with the tops of the broken roots above the soil. I hope it grows, but I'm disappointed about losing the large top of the tree. Not the greatest bonsai prospect, but pretty pink blooms and tiny fruit.

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Did you not plant the top of the tree anyway? It could root

Separated an AP Calico air layer today.

 

[leatherback]

Did you not plant the top of the tree anyway? It could root

exactly. Once it starts to root, it can go very fast.
I would have defoliated, planted it and placed it in a shed for a week or two (protected from wind and sun) and basically just treated it as a cutting. Roots in 2 weeks I would forecast.

 

[MalsRFun in TN]

exactly. Once it starts to root, it can go very fast.
I would have defoliated, planted it and placed it in a shed for a week or two (protected from wind and sun) and basically just treated it as a cutting. Roots in 2 weeks I would forecast.

That's exactly what I did. I'm hoping for the couple of tiny roots on it to be enough until it can grow more. Picture tax is the rootless side before the break.

 

[Jetson1950]

Checking air layers today. They are almost 3+weeks along. Only one is showing good progress at this time. It’s a silver maple with a 1/4” trunk at the air layer point. New roots looking good and back budding on trunk is taking off. Should be a success. I’ll look to take the top off toward the end of September. That will give it a few months to settle in before it goes dormant for the winter. We don’t really see any cold weather here till late December and that’s 40’s and maybe a dip or two down to freezing in February.

 

[Japonicus]

Crabs sprout from root cuttings easily.

And from the roots. This one always sent up soldiers from the roots, but I had enough of the CAR last year on my junipers that I cut it down.
Now it sprouts like crazy.



Picked and weighed an heirloom Super Beef.

 

[Fidur]

My garden today

 

[shohin_branches]

Went to the Midwest Bonsai Show but didn't spend too much. I was supposed to buy one nice tree so I could get rid of a few starter trees. Well of course there is something deeply wrong with my brain and I bought three starter trees.

Mark Fields of course had an amazing tree in the show


And the Milwaukee folks showed some awesome trees!


Got to walk around the gardens a bit too but it was very hot out.

 

[The Barber]

Did a bit of wiring on this hornbeam I collected in the spring, already working the tertiary branching on the 3 lowest branches. One of my favorite collects this year for sure...the

 

[leatherback]

One of my favorite collects this year for sure

VERY cool tree.

I played with thimbles and cork-bark jade cuttings.

 

[The Barber]

VERY cool tree.

I played with thimbles and cork-bark jade cuttings.
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I'd say it'll be at least 10 inches (25cm) at the base once the roots are exposed eventually. I almost passed it up and would have had I not taken 2 seconds to kick the leaves off the base that were hiding nearly the entire flare of the trunk. It'll only stay wired for maybe 3 weeks max.

 

[Shibui]

Finally got around to removing some dead sections of one of the Japanese maples.
Here's the tree in 2021, shortly after the middle left trunk died.


And today after removing 2 large dead trunks/branches

Detail of where the 2 trunks were.
Front:

Rear:


Other branches suffered significant sunburn bark damage after I defoliated in Summer one year.

I've been treating the dead wood with lime sulphur hoping the tree would heal the wounds but I suspect there's not enough growth to drive enough callus growth to heal it completely so this year I've just contoured the dead section a little and reduced a lump. Doesn't look too bad now?

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