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daiviet_nguyen wrote:Hi Pup,

Thank you for the instructions on lime sulphur. I have read Mr. Craig Coussins,
and I have been under the impression that we should apply straight-away. But
your explanations make more sense.

This is the lime sulphur that I bought and used:

http://www.yates.com.au/products/disease-control/concentrates/yates-lime-sulphur-spray-fungicide/

Do you use the same one too Pup?

Thank you and best regards.

Yes thats the one I use. There are a lot of opinion on when to apply the Lime. I have found dry wood accepts the application better. Plus as I said less chance of it being drawn in by the sap flow.

Good eye Derek and great result. Bought my first 440ml Kilkenny today and it is nectar. Many thanks.

Ash

Ash Barns wrote:Good eye Derek and great result. Bought my first 440ml Kilkenny today and it is nectar. Many thanks.

Ash

The tree or the can
what you need now is either a Chivers regal or a Glenfiddich chaser

No No No the tree is great. Kilkenny is like velvet + and M'callans is superb.

Ash

ohhhhhhhhhhh, gimme chivas anyday

Here is an update on this tree. It is now in its show pot and I am now getting it ready for the AABC show in May 2011.

The first pics are after re potting then some after a bit of tweaking. Double a battery for size.
The tree will be tilted to the right slightly, and also moved to the right. Next potting in September next year. If it grows well may be March next year.

Good stuff on the find. And you are too bloody right. We organise nursery crawls for our club of mainly new chums and it is so hard to get them to buy decent stock. They want cheap. And charming H spent $10 on a dead straight nandine - he liked it. It is just not worth it tho I hammer the point constantly.
Mind you, Charming Charlie who would not buy above $25 on our first nursery crawl has GPSed his way to Leongs and come back with a $100 tree and a $75 tree so some can be converted. But generally.... newcomers are slow to open the purse strings.

In defence of cheap newcomers, I am one too :
Firstly, we would rather not spend a small fortune on something we are likely to kill or otherwise ruin anyway.

Secondly, we have not yet reached the level of addiction where a new tree is more important than, say, fixing the brakes on the car...

I enjoy the challenge of propagation, and finding my own material too. I do it with herbs (my main passion) all the time, trees are generally harder than the things I work with, but it is fascinating to learn the skills.

Speaking as a bit of a newbie on buying stock, I'm more than happy to spend a bit more decent trees, and I'm pretty confident I can keep trees alive now =P
My gf sometimes doesn't approve of the expensive stock though! I just have to go the nursery on my own and not tell her the costs =)

Try and make her believe you really want that $250 one then it will seem much more logical when you settle on the $125 you actually wanted from the start...silly ploy but it might work for you!
I have a slightly different problem, can buy whatever I like for as much as I like...but having absolutely no spending money all the time kinda limits that freedom

I think the point was, don't spend heaps of money but spend it wisely! $30 isn't a lot, but this tree had potential, and Pup had the eye to see it, and the skill to bring it out!

When you are on a nursery crawl with experianced grower's and asking for advice.
Do you take it or as in most cases buy pretty. Then bring it along to workshops and ask what to do. Well if they ask me they get told.
The idea is if you ask us how we got that tree or this tree, we usually say, then we explain that if you buy decent stock to start with.
You will get decent tree's. If you just want pretty fine, but dont ask what to do with it.
Cheers Pup

love this plant pup!
I agree with all you guys saying that junipers can be better a lot of the time as informal upright even if they do have a huge branch that cascades down the side. I just start thinking that its not there and if theres no other option as an upright I look at a cascede.

How's this Juni looking 18 months on Pup?
Still on track for show at next years AABC conference?

Regards,
Steven

Bugga the tree Steven - how is the Chivers regal holding up Pup? Byt he way I guess it was a typo, when you left of the Royal Satute part Mate