Bud Break 2021

[Colorado]

Well, if you’re reading this, you made it through 2020 ... it wasn’t always pretty ... but we made it. Hopefully your trees did too!

Here’s to a great growing season in 2021, and what better way to kick it off than with some spring growth photos. Yes, yes....it’s still early. But I know some of you greenhouse junkies and warm climate dwellers have some plants starting to move. So let’s see them!

Here’s a shohin hawthorn just budding out in my sunroom. I just purchased this tree and it came from Florida, so it definitely couldn’t go outside or in the garage! No worries - Ive got probably close to 100 plants in this room with a large south window and they all love it.



Cheers!

 

[Kanorin]

Ahhh, I can't handle this post right now! The overnight lows for the next 6 nights here are predicted 12, 11, 2, 1, -2, 6 (F). I'll check back in with this thread in 2-3 weeks.

 

[Cadillactaste]

My hawthorn is still asleep...in the coldgreenhouse. But...alas, my Florida ones which winter in a solid cold environment there...wake early. Just repotted my bald cypress yesterday. With tips of new green peaking at me. You may find this one wakes early next spring. So keep an eye on it.

 

[BuckeyeOne]

I feel ya!!

 

[Cadillactaste]

I feel ya!!

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I'm in a microclimate. A good ten degrees below the forecast. I'm glad I have a controlled cold greenhouse.

 

[penumbra]

Even my tropicals are mostly dormant now. Spring is coming very slowly.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Even my tropicals are mostly dormant now. Spring is coming very slowly.

Sometimes forget...ones can allow tropical to go dormant.

 

[Carol 83]

Ahhh, I can't handle this post right now! The overnight lows for the next 6 nights here are predicted 12, 11, 2, 1, -2, 6 (F). I'll check back in with this thread in 2-3 weeks.

I feel your pain.

 

[Lazylightningny]

My Japanese quince is starting to wake up.

 

[Cadillactaste]

My Japanese quince is starting to wake up.

Mine is barely starting to swell. Always an early riser though.

 

[Mellow Mullet]

I am wearing shorts to the grocery store today.

 

[Cadillactaste]

I am wearing shorts to the grocery store today.

That means nothing here...my friend's son seen here. You see ones out all the time in shorts...with cold temps and snow. One friend got frostbite.

 

[penumbra]

That means nothing here...my friend's son seen here. You see ones out all the time in shorts...with cold temps and snow. One friend got frostbite.
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Guess that's better than going out in sleeping clothes and rubber boots like I just did. Worse yet, I was hosing clay off pottery tools after I thawed the hose out.
Boy is this ever off topic.

 

[GreatLakesBrad]

 

[Paradox]

No budding out here right now. Snowed here this morning and 2 or 3 days ago.
Even my BRT and ficus seem to be sleepy as they usually are this time of year despite being under lights in my basement.

 

[Carol 83]

Highs in the single digits here this weekend.

 

[Mikecheck123]

The evergreen pears are peaking in the Bay Area.

 

[Mikecheck123]

My little trident maple is waking up.

 

[just.wing.it]

Frozen tundra over here....no buds moving yet.

 

[Colorado]

Here’s another one that recently came into my possession. It is currently raging away in the sunroom, anxiously awaiting it’s queue to hit the dance floor for the Bonsai Shuffle when it’s warm enough outside:

Since I picked up this elm in early January I’ve repotted into a training pot into 100% akadama, branch selection, wired it out, and it’s blasting full steam ahead. I can basically watch this one grow. And if nothing else it’s a bunch of fun to have something to work on while everything else is fast asleep outside.