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    Collected Cedar Elm need help with carvin direction

    Collected Cedar Elm need help with carving direction I collected this tree last year. It is split in the middle and currently rotted in the middle with a bowl that holds water. What I want to do is carve out the center all the way down to the base so that it drains and looks more naturally...
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    Cedar elm collected 2013 - Tree #3

    This tree was originally featured in my collecting 2013 post. It started out with massive new growth and I have cut it back pretty hard. I know the lower left branch is long. I am looking for a new leader to grow this year. What I have left is backup if I can get some side shoots. The tree was...
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    Survivor - Boxwood Challenge

    Here is the story. Craigslist add with 6 Boxwood shrubs 4 ft high in old neighborhood. You dig em, you can have em. There is a trashcan in the picture right over the trunks in the picture so who knows. I email. They reply with another pic of a dug up Boxwood and say 1 is already out of the...
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    Twisty Cedar Elm - collected 2012

    This is a cedar Elm I collected in 2012. It is a bit unconventional with the 2nd trunk there but it has really grown on me and I like it! It is a natural style and I appreciate it for how the Cedar Elms grow all around me. I am working on the ramification and extending out the twisty branches...
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    Collected Cedar Elm I thought was going to be a twin trunk

    When I collected this I had every intention of keeping the second smaller trunk. The pictures are where I chopped it in the field. I was not sure where I wanted to go with the smaller trunk. Now that I have it home the second trunk is just growing in the wrong direction. I am really thinking...
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    Advice on collecting live oak

    Does anyone have any experience collecting scrub oak here in Texas? Rockm? Can it be collected in one dig? After care? Should they be barerooted or do I try to keep the rootball soil intact? I have heard they are hard to keep alive and wondering if they need a long term plan to collect. I...
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    Collecting 2013

    With the underbrush thinning out now, out I have been putting together all of my prospects for collecting late winter/ early spring. I thought I would share and use this post to keep a chronicle of the 2013 collecting season. With some good advise from last year on what to collect and what to...
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    Elms growing on side of ravine

    I found a great little ravine with a good deal of cedar elms growing on the walls in pretty loose limestone gravel. Here is a pic of one for reference. Just giving some of these a wiggle and I am pretty sure I can get a great deal of root by just breaking them out with my small pick axe...
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    Suggestions on prospect collection this winter

    I have been studying this Cedar Elm over the last month. It is about 5" at the base and only 24" tall with great taper and would make a great specimen (pictures never do these justice in the ground). It is growing out of a hole in a limestone boulder. The trunk has completely bulged over the...
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    What 's killing this Elm?

    This is a Cedar Elm. It was collected in early spring. I have watched the top limbs lose their leaves, go dry and no green under the bark anymore. After determining the upper half is dry and dead, I cut the worst part off the top. Found this Maybe remnants of Elm beetles? The tree has...
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    Just scored a european olive from the nursery - Looking for training ideas here

    I picked up this olive from our local nusery. It was way in the back and I almost tripped over it. The trunk is the size of a soda can and already the start on some great features. The thing is massively pot bound with little soil and is all root. I was going to clear away some from the top to...
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    Any help? Elm in distress

    Collected this cedar Elm mid spring. I think it was just too dang late and the leaves had alredy pushed out. It did well at first holding on to a good deal of leaves for months. Then when it started hitting the upper 90's it dropped all it's leaves. I had hoped it would show some signs of...
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    How much sun?

    I have had all of the cedar elms I collected under pretty dense shade. They get a couple hours of direct sunlight and shoots of light through the trees throughout they day. The ones that survived collecting are doing great. My question is how soon after recovery on a tree that is growing well do...
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    Trunk chop

    When I collected this Cedar Elm I cut it quite a bit high to see how it would bud out. I just went through and removed most of the dead branches and wires I had on it to keep it down in it's pot while it recovered. Now that it is going pretty well I am thinking about cutting it down to a branch...
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    dome method for collecting elms

    After my collecting season ended up with mostly cedar elms, These started popping up everywhere. Most notably in my yard! I guess before getting into bonsai i was not as observant. I was about to mow the yard for the first time this year about 3 weeks ago. I decided to go ahead and dig up the...
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    Gingko wilting need ideas

    I have ten 2 year old ginkgo's that I grew from seed. When spring hit they all took off quickly. Three of them have started to wilt and the rest of them are doing great. They all have the same soil and watering. The soil is left over from what they were planted in last year before I really got...
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    My first collecting season wrap-up

    I had a pretty good season. Learned a lot from this forum and from a lot of hands on digging. Here in central Texas the lots being bulldozed are plentiful with all the big box stores and strip malls going in. We are littered with cedar elm in nice open meadows where they grow short and wide...
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    direction to go

    This is one of the larger cedar elms I collected this year. It is 3.5" diameter at the base. I am trying to see the best way to deal with the way the tree almost splits into 2 apex's. I am not sure If I should just cut each of them down just a bit to make it shorter overall and let the grow...
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    Collecting schedule

    I am trying to wrap up my plans for collecting a few more of the larger cedar elms I am working on. The buds are just starting to open here in central Texas and when summer hits it will be 100 degrees in no time. The question is when is my ideal time to collect and when is too late? My fear is...
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    Confused Cedar Elm

    I stumbled upon this crazy growing cedar elm while collecting. It is about 3" at the base. It was pushed over at some point and began a spiral trunk trying to right itself. I was out in the woods alone and had a good laugh out loud. What a crazy tree! It is still in the ground as I am just as...
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    Collected Cedar Elm need some advise

    I have been collecting a few Cedar elms. This is my favorite one. It has a 2.5" trunk and is 22" tall right now. It was dug up with a good deal of fine roots. I cut most of the unneccesarily long growth. In trying to keep with a 1 to 6 ratio this tree would need to end up at 15" if the trunk is...
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    Pics of collected Cedar elms

    This forum has been so helpful. I have been collecting some elms from some property that will be a shopping mall soon. Here are some pics of some of what I have. This is not the best stuff but I am being careful to get my learning curve in on the mediocre material. I pulled a couple dozen small...
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    Bare root collected tree?

    I have been collecting some cedar elms. On most of the small ones I have collected i am bare rooting and washing off all the native soil before planting into large pots to recuperate. Most of the research I have done suggests that you should try to eliminate as much of the native bacteria and...
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    Possible to collect Cedar Elm Growing through/in rock?

    I found a Cedar Elm growing on a property that is being cleared for development over the next few years. I am checking to see when this section of land will be cleared to give me a timeline. It is either growing through this limestone rock or growing in the limestone rock. I can't lift the rock...
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    Collected/saved cedar elm with few fine roots - need advise

    I Have several cedar elms that were about to be bulldozed so I collected them on the spot. As expected there are very few fine roots. I am thinking they are suckers from a larger nearby larger tree. I had to sever a large root they grew from that was at least as wide as the trunks. I soaked them...
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