2 New Projects. Doing anything new this year?

[just.wing.it]

A maple that grew under the fence and leaned into my yard....and an Ilex from the depot.
The maple is obviously from a seed....I have a large Sugar Maple on the other side of the property.....likely this is from that one.
Growing from under the fence for a few years gave it a nice curve in the whole trunk....just as buds were swelling I chopped it back to two leaders, cut the roots back to almost nothing and planted it in the pond basket with lava pumice and bark.....been a growing machine since....might have a good future.

The Ilex, I just cut it back hard and what you see is the profuse back budding from everywhere.....I even rubbed some buds off from bad spots.

 

[Quince]

Nice starts!
Looks like a red maple. Acer rubrum

 

[just.wing.it]

Nice starts!
Looks like a red maple. Acer rubrum

Could be! The buds were red....

 

[RobT1977]

nice maples. the leaves look relatively small for native maples. Im growing a few , ive got some sugar or red maples , and silver maples...but they are growing in the shade so they have pretty big leaves. Pretty thin trunks so far too.

 

[Silentrunning]

Red Maple seeds don’t need to stratify over winter. They can start growing as soon as they hit the ground.

 

[Ali Raza]

Nice Project.

 

[Smoke]

Two Big Trident layers and a large cork elm layer.

This big cork elm is about four inches across at the layer and the tree is about six and a half inches tall.


The top of this trident is being taken out. Tree is about 3.5 inches at the layer and 7 inches tall.



This trident is also having the top taken off. This trident is about 4 inches across at the layer and about 9 inches tall.




All three of the trees growing roots. Rained all day today!

 

[just.wing.it]

Two Big Trident layers and a large cork elm layer.

This big cork elm is about four inches across at the layer and the tree is about six and a half inches tall.
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The top of this trident is being taken out. Tree is about 3.5 inches at the layer and 7 inches tall.

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This trident is also having the top taken off. This trident is about 4 inches across at the layer and about 9 inches tall.

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All three of the trees growing roots. Rained all day today!

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Nice Al!
Inspiration for me to air layer my fat corker!.....

 

[just.wing.it]

Red Maple seeds don’t need to stratify over winter. They can start growing as soon as they hit the ground.

Plan for this maple is to strengthen it up and start a good root system in the pond basket.
Then in a year or two I'll plant it back in the growing on top of a tile and let it thicken up for a while!

 

[RobT1977]

Plan for this maple is to strengthen it up and start a good root system in the pond basket.
Then in a year or two I'll plant it back in the growing on top of a tile and let it thicken up for a while!

how does the pond basket work?what is your method to strengthen the roots ?

 

[just.wing.it]

how does the pond basket work?what is your method to strengthen the roots ?

@Vance Wood has a patent for Grow Boxes..... You may have also seen Air Pots on the market.....or heard of people growing their trees in colanders.

The pond basket and similar things will cause the roots to "air prune" themselves.

When the roots grow to the edge and hit the air, the tip dies and the root sub divides further back.
This gives the tree a very dense root ball of all feeder roots, no long circling roots in the bottom.
With more feeder roots and a need for more water than usual, the tree can take up more fertilizer and water and grow faster.
@Anthony has some good anecdotal evidence in the form of pictures of 2 similar Brazilian Rain Trees, the one in an airport is significantly more vigorous and larger.

Some say doing this me this correctly is like "supercharging the tree's growth".

This tree had about 99% of its roots removed. So I think the pond basket should create a nice set of new feeders.

This happens in nature when a tree grows on a river bank or cliff edge.

 

[RobT1977]

@Vance Wood has a patent for Grow Boxes..... You may have also seen Air Pots on the market.....or heard of people growing their trees in colanders.

The pond basket and similar things will cause the roots to "air prune" themselves.

When the roots grow to the edge and hit the air, the tip dies and the root sub divides further back.
This gives the tree a very dense root ball of all feeder roots, no long circling roots in the bottom.
With more feeder roots and a need for more water than usual, the tree can take up more fertilizer and water and grow faster.
@Anthony has some good anecdotal evidence in the form of pictures of 2 similar Brazilian Rain Trees, the one in an airport is significantly more vigorous and larger.

Some say doing this me this correctly is like "supercharging the tree's growth".

This tree had about 99% of its roots removed. So I think the pond basket should create a nice set of new feeders.

This happens in nature when a tree grows on a river bank or cliff edge.

@Vance Wood has a patent for Grow Boxes..... You may have also seen Air Pots on the market.....or heard of people growing their trees in colanders.

The pond basket and similar things will cause the roots to "air prune" themselves.

When the roots grow to the edge and hit the air, the tip dies and the root sub divides further back.
This gives the tree a very dense root ball of all feeder roots, no long circling roots in the bottom.
With more feeder roots and a need for more water than usual, the tree can take up more fertilizer and water and grow faster.
@Anthony has some good anecdotal evidence in the form of pictures of 2 similar Brazilian Rain Trees, the one in an airport is significantly more vigorous and larger.

Some say doing this me this correctly is like "supercharging the tree's growth".

This tree had about 99% of its roots removed. So I think the pond basket should create a nice set of new feeders.

This happens in nature when a tree grows on a river bank or cliff edge.

thank you Anthony i will try that!

 

[sorce]

I cut my Shimp up and this thing was sitting behind me holding moss. This is the same container I vacationed 3days my trees in ever so long ago! Hydro but with holes to keep water below soil line in rain.

@M. Frary finally got hold of my neighbor to tell him I assed up his azalea...he thought it was his kids!

Put it in a bucket to see if I could save and bonsai it!

He wouldn't accept my replacement offer.
But....
...

Sorce

 

[M. Frary]

assed up his azalea.

That's why he gave it to you.
Nobody wants an assed up azalea.

 

[just.wing.it]

That's why he gave it to you.
Nobody wants an assed up azalea.

Are those the kind you can get in prison, from a very very good friend?