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Here something you lot should be doing as well.

Let the top grow out to encourage trunk thickness. This is sprouting a metre high above the normal apex of the tree. The tree is quite a large specimen with the lower trunk as thick as my leg. This has been achieved in 10 years from a small root cutting.
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I should add that I haven't got much in the way of growing projects thesedays.

I have gone from owning and growing several hundred bonsai down to 12 of my best trees.
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That is so cool, thanks for that Brian, appreciate your input.
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Was just reviewing the posts on page 11 when I noticed an error. Sorry, must have been to much of that Diet Coke I think. The tree in the first pic, which I identified as Glomerata is actually Ficus umbellata 'australis', not that it makes much difference I guess.
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I just put two of last year's Port Jackson cuttings into colanders applying this method. Here's hoping for some good summer growth.
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For those wondering (if there are any ;) ) I was going to do an update of this thread this weekend, but I had a cancer cut out of my arm during the week, so am unable to lift heavy weights ( :lol: ). Stitches out in around 10 days, so will update after that.
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Wow cool thread! Graeme I am glad your stitches are out and you are about again. I hope you have apermanent recovery. I am in the U. S. guys. I would really like to know . What is a chook ?¿ And where can I get one. Lol. I want to try this method. I have trees in foam boxes. But i fed them pond water Compost Tea. And they grew like it like weeds. I haven't fone the tea for a while. But I want to do a bigger setup in a heavy duty plastic 55 gallon garbage can . I plan on making a thread to show everyone. Has anyone tried pond water?
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SpongeMann wrote: I would really like to know . What is a chook ?¿ And where can I get one. Lol.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :palm:
A chook is a Chicken. What the heck do you guys call them :?:
I though everyone called 'em chooks!

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kcpoole wrote:
SpongeMann wrote: I would really like to know . What is a chook ?¿ And where can I get one. Lol.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :palm:
A chook is a Chicken. What the heck do you guys call them :?:
I though everyone called 'em chooks!

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We just call them chickens, Ken. I looked that one up myself a while back. :reading:
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I am going to call em chooks from now on! It has a good ring to it. But yeah we just call em chickens.Here in the U.S. In my home island of Puerto Rico we call them gallinas. Pronounced(gayinass) .
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Learn somthing new every day!
I figured that Americans shorten just about every work in the english, :lol: that Chooks must be a given :lol: :lol:

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Lol, we do shorten just about every word. Or we make a slang word for it. Have a good one Ken
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Is there any update for those that were experimenting with the fast grow method?
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