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I have tons of these little white oval things all over my tree. I saw them in the winter and they seemed really hard, couldn't get them off. But now, they are scraping off really easily and there's like this reddish brown stuff that smears when I scrape them. Are they some kind of insect egg?

Found 2 of these at a nursery, it looks like some kind of elm, but what are your expert opinions?

When seperating air layers, is it best to not disturb the new roots at all and just plant the sphagnum miss root ball in a new pot without touching them? Can you spread them out a little? I've only done this once before and I really overworked the new roots, spreading them too much and it...

I noticed these black spots on new growth today. Does anyone know what could be the cause? There's also these other parts of leaves that have curled around and turned brown? Any advice would be appreciated. I did repot this year.

I want to start some root grafts this year on one of my trees. Does anyone have a good resource for buying a bunch of seedlings/saplings to use?

Assuming it is some type of fungi, is this normal to be growing on organic fert cakes? I'm sure others have seen this, or know what type it is?

I noticed that some of this springs needles have browned and broken off. Really weird, any ideas what would cause this? I wonder if it could be physical damage? It did fall off the bench a week or 2 ago. 😫

Got this little thing awhile back at an old nursery and have just been letting it gain back some health. Starting to clean up the trunkline and live vein. When you guys clean bark off old dead wood, is there a better way to get it cleaned off than what I'm doing? I'm just scraping it off with...

So around where I live the time to cut candles are around July 4th or so, depending on the size of the tree. My question is the candles on my JBP have already extended and partially opened, by the time it's July, it's hard to even tell where the candles are anymore. When I see instructional...

Just picked this one up the other week. This is it when it arrived. Has some nice taper from the base of the trunk moving up, but it is very flat and 2 dimensional, which I didn't notice from the pictures when I bought it. The nebari is wide going from left to right, but very shallow from front...

I see these small and shiny bugs under some leaves. When I touch them, they just move away very slow. I'm hitting everything with pesticides, just curious what they are.

This is the first kind of Oak I've ever messed with, but I'm really liking willow oaks from what I've seen so far. They seem to grow super fast and are really tough. The bark is great too. I dug this out of my backyard in Feb 2018. The roots on this thing were super thick, almost the same...

I noticed these little brown spots on some leaves, not every leaf though. I was looking up what they could be and saw leaf spot disease, does this look like it could be the start of that? If not, anyone have ideas on what it could be and how to treat it?

Anyone have an idea what this might be? I picked it up 2 years ago from a nursery, didn't have a label or anything on it. The leaves are pretty small, which makes me think it's some kind of dwarf cultivar? Google hasn't helped yet. I know there's like a million of these cultivars out there...

I had seen this tree a few times when I visit this nursery way in the back and thought about what I could do with it, so today I got it. Surprisingly the roots weren't through the bottom of the pot and into the ground, I'm sure they were at some point, but someone has come along and pruned them...

I have a JBP and I missed shoot selection and needle pulling last fall, and have groups of 3,4 even more in some places of candles extending now. When can I go back in and cut back to 2? Is now an ok time to do that?

Man, I have so much damage on all my JM leaves and found all kinds of pests all over it today. Was hoping I could get some ideas of what they are and how to get rid of them. I believe these are green lacewing eggs? Is that right, and if so, should I leave them because they will eat aphids and...

No idea what kind of juniper this is, found it at an old mom and pop nursery. Thought I'd start a thread on it and document it's progress, hopefully it'll be interesting one day. This is pretty much what it looked like when I bought it, in June of last year. Around October/November I tried...

I know the usual answer to when we're supposed to do this is after it hardens off, but this maple I have has just exploded with so much growth, I'm afraid it's shading out the lower shoots too much. I think the leaves are starting to harden, they feel harder than the newer leaves and are darker...

I just bought 2 dwarf pomegranates from this local nursery near me. I have no experience with them at all, but they're about 3-4 feet tall and need to be cut down. They've already leaved out, so I'm thinking I need to wait until the leaves and new stems harden off, and then can I cut back? If...

I'm thinking about buying this tree, to me it looks like it could definitely be a Stewartia pseudo camelia. Guy at the nursery said it was a Franklinia Alatamaha? Some tree native to GA. Please tell me what your trained eyes see. If it is a Stewartia pseudo camelia, would it be worth getting...

I got this back around November. I think it originally came from a club up north in MA somewhere. I pulled some older needles when I got it, roughly placed some branches in new positions, ut haven't done much else to it yet. It's got some issues with the branch structure, I know everyone around...

Received this in the mail with a root ball intact, back before the buds opened. Got it into some good soil and have been bringing it in when Temps have gotten low. It never really had many buds on most of the branches, but now that some have opened, I'm even more worried. Some have turned black...

I picked up this JM this morning for a what I thought was a pretty decent price at a local nursery. So excited to dig into this thing this year. Plans are going to include layering off one or possibly two of the apexes, chopping back the thicker trunks, tons of root work, thread grafting, maybe...

Can't believe I found this at HD, but there it was - just waiting for me to take it home. Just wanted to create a thread that I can update over time. Plan is to cut back the top this spring and bare root it - see what's under there and get into some better soil. Lot's of nice lower branches...