Sno’s class of 24
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Sno’s class of 24
I thought I would start another thread once again about a few projects that I am doing this year that I find interesting . As before they are a mixture of the good the bad and the ugly , I will let you you decide which is which .
First up is something I actually started last year in early September. I dug a juniper .
The juniper was growing at my local shopping centre and I noticed that they were removing a section of plantings that were looking a bit old and tired ‘yay’ . I went to the management at the beginning of winter and asked if I could remove the juniper in spring . They were happy for that , I think it saved them the work and they were only going to take it to the tip .
This tree had been bashed by cars parking against it since 1986 so it has developed an interesting trunk .
So it ended up being quite a dig , it took me about 4 hours and luckily for me I managed to rope in a passer-by to help me lift into the back of the ute . The main trunk (which I don’t have photo of yet ) was bigger than I expected and was buried under years of debris mixed with river rocks that had been used as a mulch .
So the after care which is the most interesting part, has been putting it into a glass house and
basically sweating it . I have a mister set up in this small glass house with no ventilation and while the glasshouse is mostly shaded by a deciduous tree the temps inside have been very high sometimes in the 40 ‘s . I had to make up a grow box and this has had sheets of plastic covering the pumice to stop any water getting into it . It’s been watered twice since I dug it in September the only other moisture getting into the box would be trickling down the trunk from the misters .
I ended up bare rooting it because it had a lot of clay mixed with large pebbles and removed a couple of roots as big as my arm but I didn’t touch the top . It’s been pushing growth which is a good sign . Now it just has to survive winter and when it does in the spring I will have to pull down some of the glass house to get it out . At the time I put it in I had to do the planting work inside the glasshouse because I physically couldn’t lift up the tree and the box by myself
First up is something I actually started last year in early September. I dug a juniper .
The juniper was growing at my local shopping centre and I noticed that they were removing a section of plantings that were looking a bit old and tired ‘yay’ . I went to the management at the beginning of winter and asked if I could remove the juniper in spring . They were happy for that , I think it saved them the work and they were only going to take it to the tip .
This tree had been bashed by cars parking against it since 1986 so it has developed an interesting trunk .
So it ended up being quite a dig , it took me about 4 hours and luckily for me I managed to rope in a passer-by to help me lift into the back of the ute . The main trunk (which I don’t have photo of yet ) was bigger than I expected and was buried under years of debris mixed with river rocks that had been used as a mulch .
So the after care which is the most interesting part, has been putting it into a glass house and
basically sweating it . I have a mister set up in this small glass house with no ventilation and while the glasshouse is mostly shaded by a deciduous tree the temps inside have been very high sometimes in the 40 ‘s . I had to make up a grow box and this has had sheets of plastic covering the pumice to stop any water getting into it . It’s been watered twice since I dug it in September the only other moisture getting into the box would be trickling down the trunk from the misters .
I ended up bare rooting it because it had a lot of clay mixed with large pebbles and removed a couple of roots as big as my arm but I didn’t touch the top . It’s been pushing growth which is a good sign . Now it just has to survive winter and when it does in the spring I will have to pull down some of the glass house to get it out . At the time I put it in I had to do the planting work inside the glasshouse because I physically couldn’t lift up the tree and the box by myself
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That's no small feat getting that big boy out of the ground and surviving! I look forward to seeing it's journey as a bonsai
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I was under the impression that as we got older, we got wiser and moved to smaller bonsai ... it's always nice to see an exception to the rule !!
Good luck with it!
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I remember you telling me about this juniper at the last club meeting your nuts but if it was me I would have dug it as well it's pretty unique and different. Never seen anything like it. Look forward to seeing it progress.
BTW if you need a hand with it, I'll come down and help for the day
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Jesus, thats a huge juniper and got potential to be some great material. Crossing my fingers for you that it pulls through the dig out
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Thanks for the comments guys . It’s been interesting so far and I think this technique could work well on digging larger size Euc’s .
Yeh it’s a bit big and my body can’t keep up with me . I keep saying to myself no more and then….
Thanks I may take you up on that offer . You know you’re always welcome , I am only a couple of hours up the road .Keels wrote: ↑March 15th, 2024, 6:29 pm I remember you telling me about this juniper at the last club meeting your nuts but if it was me I would have dug it as well it's pretty unique and different. Never seen anything like it. Look forward to seeing it progress.
BTW if you need a hand with it, I'll come down and help for the day
Hi Simon . When it survives I am going to do a fair bit of grafting . I did think about changing it to Itoigawa . The one you gave me is doing really well .
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I don’t think I could ever compete with Alpine but I did think of him when I was digging this one .
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I have been trying to finish off a few projects before the real frosts start , so far we have had just some light ones that nip my toes when walking the dogs in the morning . It’s nearly time to put the thongs away .
This Seiju Elm I showed a couple of years ago and I was talking about putting an airlayer on it to remove the ‘ sacrifice branch ‘ . I finally got around to it . I set the layer last year in Nov or Dec and today I removed it . Pretty dodgy photos but I was in a bit of rush so the background is a bit messy .
This Seiju Elm I showed a couple of years ago and I was talking about putting an airlayer on it to remove the ‘ sacrifice branch ‘ . I finally got around to it . I set the layer last year in Nov or Dec and today I removed it . Pretty dodgy photos but I was in a bit of rush so the background is a bit messy .
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Interesting urinal(?) planters on the wall behind your trees…
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Hi Nathan .
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