Most of my babs were devastated over the winter and wet spring
Some never woke up at all. I had moved a couple outside when the temps got high enough but then we got a lot of rain. When one finally fell over in the wind because it had no root ball left at all, I dug up all the ones that hadn't woken up. They roots of every one of them were rotted away to nothing.
I still had 2 that I had kept inside and hadn't gotten water at all yet since last fall. When I dug them up, they had no root tuber left either! None! Just barely a skin of a husk. I didn't even bother taking pictures.
My guess is that my basement can be cool and a bit damp at times during the winter. I'm wondering if some fungus got in and, with the tree dormant, it had no defense...but the fungus had a rich supply of stored moisture.
5 trees did start to wake up. 2 of them have died. They clearly died from too much spring rain. Their roots were still there...unlike the ones that didn't wake up...but they were rotted and squishy from all the rains we had.
3 trees, however, did wake up and are mostly doing fine. Not as vigorous as I'm used to...but healthy looking.
One of them is a baby adansonia za
It's the one I'm holding in my hand in this post:
Rather than continue to hijack another's thread, I'm going to start my own for my personal baobab collection. adansonia grandidieri What looks like a double trunk on the right is actually poor pot placement :( There are 3 trees in this grow bag. The two on the right are roughly the same...
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The other 2 are both adansonia grandidieri
Remarkably, there were three in this bag as discussed in this post
Rather than continue to hijack another's thread, I'm going to start my own for my personal baobab collection. adansonia grandidieri What looks like a double trunk on the right is actually poor pot placement :( There are 3 trees in this grow bag. The two on the right are roughly the same...
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One had died...but NOT the one that had the interesting root rot situation discussed in that post. In fact, that is the one that appears to be doing the best
Clearly, I need a more reliable wintering procedure
I now have a decent amount of seed for all 8 species. I don't now yet if I have enough space to start anything this fall...I'm hoping to try the new supply of suarezensis since I have yet to ever successfully germinate one. The rest I may wait until next year to start again...we'll see. I've got 3 left to try and get through a winter!