You guys call Scots Pines, Forrest Pines a term we do not use. It's not weird, it's just the way it is. That's why we use botanical names.
Otherwise known as the back budding machine!
A common cultivar, frequently used for bonsai, is Watereri. A dwarf variety with blueish needles. Growing slower than regular scots pines, butcan make fine bonsai
like a hawk. Same with larch. Basically because it's about the only 2 species around me worth collecting.
No Jack's there? I would think they would like Maine.
A couple hours north of me theres some. I've collected 3 and killed 3. Not so lucky with them. They seem to like growing in pure sand with loooooong roots
here's one I killed. Prob died the second i walked up on it. They litter the shores amd islands around mt katahdin. I reckon I'll try again next spring. I tey guy I dug with collects late summer into fall with good success. Not so much for me, or I picked bad locations with too tough of extractions
I dont have the greatest success rate. All I collected in late summer are dead.
I second that! I found a sweet spot in the woods, and they come right out. No taproot whatsoever. But they do tend to have large pancakes full of surface roots.
How old were these when you performed the root work and cutting technique? I see you're down under and your seasons are upside down too. Did you start them in August? Is that your spring? I'm going to do some root work to my current 2 yr seedlings this spring as they go into yr 3 here in the states. If I can get that out of the way in year one that would be a big time saver and advantage to development.
Yeah, that's about right. I sowed the seeds in early August after soaking/stratifying for 4 weeks. That is our last month of winter, Spring begins in September, which is probably a more optimum time to plant them but I was keen and had planned a trip away for then so thought I'd get in early. Apart from getting to work on the roots, the other reason to get them out was to repot into a more free draining bonsai type mix rather than the basic seed raising mix they were initially in. I think working the roots as early as possible sets you up for a better tree and less work in the subsequent years to fix stuff that hasn't developed as you want. I posted some pics of the kind of work I do in my JBP comp thread:
Sorry for the confusion @my nellie , these are not my JBP but Scots pine I germinated pretty much at the same time. I really should start a new thread for them though so as not to bog down @M. Frary 's Scots pine thread too much. I just posted here as this is where I put in the original pic of my seedlings ... I'll get onto it soon ... my apologies!
Everything's cool man.
