AusBonsai

PeterH wrote:Hi all,

Just a note on working with Eucs this time of the year. Be aware of your own micro climate. In my climate I would be careful of the new growth ( upper and lower ) being affected by sub zero conditions as we go into winter.

Peter

Hey peter,

Thanks for the advice, where i am in newcastle i havent even had a frost in the 2yrs i have been here. Am seriously wondering if i go ahead with my orchard is it goign to be viable IE am i going to get enough chill hours to get a decent crop from my trees. Any other advice or info you could possibly share about my beloved species?

Matt

Update on this one, it is budding up fast all over and on one side they are starting to extend. It is getting morning sun till about 11, i turned it the other day to help budding on the other side. As soon as the first pair of leaves hardens it will be moved out to full sun and get its first light feed.

Matt

Regrowth is really getting into swing now. Will be out in the sun and getting a feed very soon.

Matt

Very impressive from a chop as hard as can be, great job mate!

Wow it's shooting well. Looking good, Matt. What do you have planned for this?

I've found a particular Euc which has a whole heap of potential after being struck by bushfire mid Summer. It's sprouting all over the place, but I'm concerned about a giant tap root and losing the lot
Reckon it'd be any good to start digging around it now or is it too cold?

Hi Matt , thats very impressive , i learn something new everyday .Might just try my luck a few and see how they go .Thanks for sharing .Cheers Alpine

Good work with the eucs.
Just a note for potential euc collectors - not all species of euc have lignotubers (that's the swollen 'bulb' at the base of the trunk). Obvioustly if it does not have a lignotuber you cannot treat it as shown.
Some species that do have lignotubers and should respond would include: Red gum, most 'mallees',
Some I think have lignotubers are: Red box, lemon scented
Actually it might be easier to list those that do not have lignotubers. Any ideas?

Hi all,
I live in the scrub on some acres, a couple of weeks ago i notice all the Euc saplings are shooting new growth, so i just doug them up and potted them last week in native mix, all are going well, they didn't even wilt. I have been trying to kill all these for years as they grow in front of the shed.

Thanks for the positive comments, this one had been doing really well, had been moved out in full sun & had been receiving light doses of fertilizer. That was until I babysat a friends dog last w/e, she thought it was wonderful wandering around the trees on the bench GGRRR I hadnt noticed until a few days later that she had knocked this one out of its pot. By then the damage had been done, I have repotted and put it back in the shade but think the most I can hope for now is a big dead centre with a load of little ones suckering off the bottom . I have found with lignotubers it can take a year or 2 for them to get a really solid root system under them & until such time are very easily dislodged and lost, either partially or fully.

I recently found a massive patch of Eucalypt, Angophora, Callitris, Banksia and Callistemon plus quite a few other things I am not 100% on ID's for. They have all been regularly cut to ground as they are under high tension powerlines. Just have to wait till I have more soil before I spend a day digging as many as I can.Oh and cut down a load of plastic pots to take them all. Now I know the place to look (powerlines) I am hoping for alot more to be added to my growing native collection.

Shibui you are right that not all produce a lignotuber, I have also found that ironbark and box varieties tend to be alot slower to put on growth and have only a 50% strike rate. I have a yellow box that had shot to the same extent as this one & then did nothing at all for over 12mths. It has just started to put on some new growth so hopefully it is over its adjusting period.

Mick, can you show us some pics and give any more info on your process, roots left etc etc I have tried to transplant seedlings many times & never had any success.

Matt

Matt, I'll try to figure out how to put some pictures on tommorow, as you can see i'm new at this computer thing. For now, I live down near Goulburn where there is frost this time of year. I doug up with all roots and just bent them to suit the pot, (100mm) they get only morning sun till 11am and kept moist. I'll do photo's tommorow.