Acer campestre root cuttings

AlainK

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Last year, I removed some of the roots left after uprooting an Acer campestre.

They had produced new shoots, I just threw them in a plastic pot and added some pine bark, thinking I would maybe use them one way or another. But they lost their leaves in July for lack of watering and I thought they were dead. But today, I saw that the buds on the five of them were about to open!

So:

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I put some Chiloe sphagnum moss soaked in "organic hormons" and fine sand over it before wrapping it with plastic from a dustbin liner.

I potted two others in plastic pots (like the one you can see on the right in the last pic), one that had very long roots in a cardboard whisky container, and one that could one day be styled with a "Chinese feel":

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I wish it worked on A. palmatum or A. buergerianum!

Unfortunately it doesn't...
 

jomawa

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Just brought back from the woods a couple girdled/air layered vine maples, so maybe I've just got girdle-ing on my mind, but am wondering if that rock will break before the tree (by default) girdles itself???
 
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