Large Collected Radiata

[Elias]

Hi All,
Some time ago, some friends and I went to an old Xmas tree farm and collected a few trees. We managed to collect several larger specimens, with very good success, this is the one of the larger ones, that was put into a straight diotomite mix (2-7mm), and fed heavily. It has put on a lot of growth.
Jarrod and I trimmed this one on Saturday to allow more light to the interior of the tree.
It measures are 19 inches around the trunk and around a meter in height, anyways this tree will require much forethought, time and patience.
Oh yeah also a well rooted layer removed early this spring.

[Beaumatsu]

that is a amazingly nice pine i wish i had that!!! but could you tell me what you planted that in was it just straight Diatomite and nothink else.

thankyou Beaumatsu

[Elias]

that is a amazingly nice pine i wish i had that!!! but could you tell me what you planted that in was it just straight Diatomite and nothink else.

thankyou Beaumatsu

Thanks Beaumatsu, it is very hard to see the trunkline, but it is awesome, and yes just straight diotomite, nothing else.

Cheers,
Elias

[Beaumatsu]

thankyou i was trying to find some type of new soil for my JBP so thankyou again

[Gerard]

Looking good Elias, great to see another pine survive the dig, have you trimmed much before this?
Did you say you have already taken an air layer?
I would love to srr the pics.

[Jarrod]

The second pic shows the layer sticking out the top. We hadn't done any trimming to this one prior to this. I have three of these radiatas that survived and have had the hard chop, one is the guy I used you saw to cut the top tree off with.

[Gerard]

Hi Jarrod,
I have 5 survivors but have been fairly aggressive, two months after collection I started to remove a few branches and have regularly thinned strong growing areas

[Jarrod]

Yeah I was the same but we felt this tree was special and gave it a bit more time to recover, but the strength it is now showing made us happy to give it a good hack back. I was a bit more brutal than Elias

[Tony Bebb]

Nice Elias. Wish we had somewhere to get nice pines that easy
Should be fun working on that one. Love to see more pics when it happens.

Tony