wvbonsai
Sapling
Over the past few seasons I have been developing sort of a material development plan. What I do is during the late winter/early spring I prune away a few excess branches from just about every tree I am currently developing and root them as hardwood cuttings. I grow them out most of that season in the cutting flat and later shift them to grow beds. They spend another 1 or 2 seasons in the grow beds until the reach gallon size or so. After that they are planted out on my farm for further growing. This way I usually have about 30-50 cuttings being advanced each season. I usually keep the best specimen from each species to be developed at my home where I can have a closer eye. In the future I will have plenty of stock that I can trade or develop myself.
I was interested to see if there was anyone else doing similar things on a small scale?
I was interested to see if there was anyone else doing similar things on a small scale?