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    Crab trunk chops - what should I expect?

    I have a bunch of different varieties of crabapples, grown from cuttings and airlayers, growing in the ground, and I live in Canada! I live a couple hours east of Guelph, and you're right it has been a slow start to the season, by at least a month. I would avoid using a grafted tree for...
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    Kushida Matsuo's growing techniques

    Soak the seeds overnight, and then mix them with a bit of damp peat, put them in the fridge for at least a month or so before you plant them. I've actual found I have better success with them sprouting and growing in the early summer, plus the root cutting also works early in the second year...
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    Fitting Nursery Pots

    As an instructor in a wood studio, I cringe when ever someone recommends anything as dangerous as using a table saw to cut a round plastic pot- you won't be able to pinch buds without your fingers! Hand tools are always the safer option for something as awkward as this, try a metal hacksaw.
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    Prunus Mume 'Contorta'

    I've found they air layer very easily, and cuttings will also root, so you could alway buy a grafted one and use it as a stock plant. Kevin
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