You're in OHIO too. WOW! Crazy...yeah, I reckon if that's your intentions for it this year. But you will have to watch it doesn't freeze. Good luck to you my friend. But at this point...With buds opening. Your going to have to no matter what.My first and only crabapple appears to be waking up earlier than I expected. I’m guessing I should repot relatively soon.
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Yeah this thing is been sitting outside unprotected. Even through what brief freezing we have had. I have a small greenhouse that maintains around 35 to 38° I’ll put it in after I repot it.You're in OHIO too. WOW! Crazy...yeah, I reckon if that's your intentions for it this year. But you will have to watch it doesn't freeze. Good luck to you my friend. But at this point...With buds opening. Your going to have to no matter what.
Good plan.Yeah this thing is been sitting outside unprotected. Even through what brief freezing we have had. I have a small greenhouse that maintains around 35 to 38° I’ll put it in after I repot it.
appears to be waking up
Mines been kept under our sunroom unprotected on the N side of the house, so no light really.Yeah this thing is been sitting outside unprotected. Even through what brief freezing we have had. I have a small greenhouse that maintains around 35 to 38° I’ll put it in after I repot it.
When I said unprotected I just meant not inside or mulched in. It was in the shade out of wind on my north facing porch.Mines been kept under our sunroom unprotected on the N side of the house, so no light really.
Do you think that could be keeping it from doing the same?
It’s breaking bud which wasn't happening a week ago. I’m repotting because it’s in nursery dirt in a nursery pot and holds a huge amount of moisture. It’s mud.Might not be.
If it is, it sure is too early, which isn't good, so skipping repotting is safer.
Why repotting anyway?
It doesn't sound like the right reasons.
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We had days of 60+ up to 70 degrees in December and beginning of January. We’re usually frozen solid by now for a couple months but it’s been unseasonably warm this yearFeels like loads of places are having an early start of the growing season. Crossing my fingers we will not get our first real winter next month. Feb normally is the coldest month. In cold winters dropping into the sub-zero F range. I have loads of green in my trees already and have repotted many trees already. Insane.
Until you get the Jet stream set up over top of you jetting the Arctic or Canadian NortherliesI think that the northern area of winter storage you mention is well sheltered from most the wind....and that area probably gets warmer than you might think because of the total wind shelter....causing the early wake-up.
My porch is wide open. It was just out of direct wind. I’ve read a little about winter storage and from what I recall “out of wind and sun” seems to be pretty standard. It wasn’t in a garage or my greenhouse, just on the porch.I think that the northern area of winter storage you mention is well sheltered from most the wind....and that area probably gets warmer than you might think because of the total wind shelter....causing the early wake-up.
I bought this tree in July at a local show for the price of a pitcher of beer. Not even good beer. It’s a wretched thing with a hideous split trunk and two pretzel rod trunks coming off of it. I bought to see if I like it and if I can keep it alive in my yard. It hadn’t been worked on since 2017. I threw it in a raised bed with my hot peppers and roots grew through the plastic nursery pot into the dirt.
I’m not the “ I HAVE TO DO AN EMERGENCY REPOT RIGHT NOW!” kind of guy. I can wait, I know we have cold weather coming although I’m not convinced it will be sub zero weather. Either way I do have means to protect it from freezing if I do repot it. I do appreciate all the comments and suggestions, thanks!
Over time I've had trees do just that....there’s a little activity, then it all slows right back down and waits for much warmer temperatures. I always thought that the bud begins an awakening because the branches get warmer. However, the roots are to cold yet, sometimes still frozen....so the magic mojo coming up from the roots doesn’t happen. So the buds don’t extend any further knowing there’s no back up resources heading up. They wait until the root mojo delivers needed supplies. It made sense to me anyway.Pretty sure it's gonna sit like that till spring.
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