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    fruit tree ground layering

    Awesome! I may pick up a crab apple tree at Lowe's this week while they are still on sale. I am also going to try growing some apple seeds and see if the fruits will look like the parent at all. I know thy won't fruit true but since this IS bonsai I am not worried about eating them. At any rate...
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    fruit tree ground layering

    Is it possible to ground layer plum, peach, and other fruit cultivars that were initially grafted onto another root stock? Seems like that would be an easy way to get a tree that will fruit relatively quickly, get rid of the grafting scar AND develop a good nebari. I just want to see what...
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    New trees

    Sadly I cannot plant them in the ground since we live in an apartment. Thankfully we have balconies here so that helps. I am mostly worried about the -10F to -15F temps we get in the winter sometimes. I have the trees between the back wall and the HVAC unit fo now. Next year I hope to have...
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    New trees

    Years ago watching the "Karate Kid" series I was exposed to the fine art of Bonsai, probably like many others. I tried to get some trees going then but was impatient and killed several trying to do it all at once. Now I am about 20 years or so older than then and I am having as much fun watching...
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