Unless you are in zone 9B or warmer. I would wait. You can collect but essentially the collected trees will be in stasis until spring. Until the temperature is warm enough to facilitate growth, the cut sites both up top and at the roots won't heal and and the chance of further damage is high.It is cold here but the ground is not frozen. Is it ok to collect deciduous this time of year with winter protection above freezing or should I wait till spring? Help appreciated.
I ain't in no zone 9B for sure.Unless you are in zone 9B or warmer. I would wait. You can collect but essentially the collected trees will be in stasis until spring. Until the temperature is warm enough to facilitate growth, the cut sites both up top and at the roots won't heal and and the chance of further damage is high.
Nice work. In your case, your chance would have been zero had you waited.I dug a large dogwood a couple years ago October 29 2019 (only because I had to) and plunked into a deepish hole in the garden for the winter. Survived just fine. Lucky? maybe but, it was going to be firewood otherwise. Bare rooted and potted in March.
Different climate, but Harry harrington successfully collects oak, hawthorn and beech this time of year. He also uses a polytunnel to store them in. with so much folk here putting heavy emphasis on winter storage, I would imagine fall collected trees would be pretty fine.Autumn is "second best" season for collecting. If you keep them slightly above freezing until spring, success can get close to success rate of spring collecting. But, it can go wrong, and it can turn out that autumn could end up a "distant second best" season for collecting.
A very few species are better collected in autumn, persimmon and certain oaks. Blueberries can be transplanted in autumn. It is very species dependent.
Just give it a try. Your success will be better than zero, probably better than 50%, but it won't be 100%.
I think you be correct here Bobby...has a lot to do with protection of roots after collection. Roots on heat matt while foliage area exposed would work I think.Different climate, but Harry harrington successfully collects oak, hawthorn and beech this time of year. He also uses a polytunnel to store them in. with so much folk here putting heavy emphasis on winter storage, I would imagine fall collected trees would be pretty fine.
I dont know of anyone who uses a heat mat for anything. im talking winter storage after collection so the roots dont freeze, but most of you guys are doing that anyway. I mean, its only 3.5 months until they start to wake up again. if you collect with a decent amount of roots, its not a major issue if a few tips die off here n there.I think you be correct here Bobby...has a lot to do with protection of roots after collection. Roots on heat matt while foliage area exposed would work I think.
This dates me, but I used to collect deciduous in the Midwest in the Fall after leaf drop but before a hard ground freeze - not for bonsai but for landscape on my parent's property. We would simply lift the tree and plant it in a new location, making sure the hole was nice and deep and the root ball was buried below the soil line and mulched. This was well after frosts, but before the hard lasting freeze. As far as I can recall, we never lost a tree doing this. Some of those trees are now big trees! I can see them on Google street view when I look at where I grew upIt is cold here but the ground is not frozen. Is it ok to collect deciduous this time of year with winter protection above freezing or should I wait till spring? Help appreciated.
Do you collect for trees or stumps?I was just thinking about this today, starting to feel the itch to collect Hornbeam. I’m still on the fence about it, I may just go scouting.
Lucky you! Always wanted a Hornbeam stump. None around here but they are zoned to be ok hereTrees, I have had fair success collecting now. I usually put them in the basement until the first frost is over, I found some last year but haven’t been back to make sure they are worth it. My best friend let’s me collect on his land and has a lot of hornbeam.