hinmo24t
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Hey everyone, im Tom, from southeastern MA, near RI.
ive had a ficus awhile, but in the last few mos have started gathering
trees to train from around my property, and i plan on buying maybe a fruiting fig or citrus soon. been watching nigel saunders and herons bonsai...
my ficus i just repotted:
i have been training a few red maple/norway maple in ground, which i hard cut and theyre reshooting.
I plan to let them go through summer and prune before winter. i think ill leave them in the ground until the springtime
next year unless someone suggests potting them in the fall. they are 3" and 4" diameter and reshooting nicely (5" shoots now)
in-ground hard cuts i also have a twin-Lilac hardcut reshooting near the maples. maybe by end of summer they will have grown enough to handle a repotting, but i dont mind being patient on the in-ground ones.
This is kind of cool - i have a laying-down 100' Black Cherry fully alive overhanging my property. i am air-layering two
sections currently, will be very happy if those work out and i have a lot of material to get it right in future if not.
training in pots:
- 2 or 3 eastern white or red cedar with the non-prickly leaves (the flat style) going,
theyre 3 of 4' and because such slow growers i havent done much to them, need to see how they go, maybe wire but i
prefer non wire style. these grow in wet areas of MA/swamp style cedars. not sure how much success ill have with them, i have option to harvest some 1' ones that might take to bonsai better.
-i have two european Beech, one which will be a keeper as it was hard cut naturally and found with umbrella growth, 1" diameter trunk. the other one i hard cut but i heard they are very slow growers so well see how that goes, the good beech isnt in any pics yet
- 2 white Birch just 3" tall, looking to hard cut them once i know they take to trianing pots...theyre tall and thin though right now
-1 small Dogwood sapling, thin, similar to the Birch above
-red maple and norway maple sapplings under 10"
-japanese maple in front yard, had i not pruned so much this summer id air layer some of this too
some veggies and training plants...dont mind to the left of garden, fully legal where i am.
heres what i need help with!!!:
i was on a dog walk around my property, keeping an eye for a white oak, and down low in brush/weeds/congestion i saw
this plant - the blue hue got my eye. the root system was amazing, spliced out flat aerials and a lot of fine roots, small taproot i cut back. i dont know what this is???? in th epic i just found it, i didnt do much of anything to it until i know it takes to the pot. theres drainage in it, etc so dont mind that.
im thinking it is a red cedar, blue (colorado??) spruce, douglas fir, but not positive...
i have this as well not positive what it is, as well, and i havent done anything to it yet:
Thanks everyone,
Tom
ive had a ficus awhile, but in the last few mos have started gathering
trees to train from around my property, and i plan on buying maybe a fruiting fig or citrus soon. been watching nigel saunders and herons bonsai...
my ficus i just repotted:
i have been training a few red maple/norway maple in ground, which i hard cut and theyre reshooting.
I plan to let them go through summer and prune before winter. i think ill leave them in the ground until the springtime
next year unless someone suggests potting them in the fall. they are 3" and 4" diameter and reshooting nicely (5" shoots now)
in-ground hard cuts i also have a twin-Lilac hardcut reshooting near the maples. maybe by end of summer they will have grown enough to handle a repotting, but i dont mind being patient on the in-ground ones.
This is kind of cool - i have a laying-down 100' Black Cherry fully alive overhanging my property. i am air-layering two
sections currently, will be very happy if those work out and i have a lot of material to get it right in future if not.
training in pots:
- 2 or 3 eastern white or red cedar with the non-prickly leaves (the flat style) going,
theyre 3 of 4' and because such slow growers i havent done much to them, need to see how they go, maybe wire but i
prefer non wire style. these grow in wet areas of MA/swamp style cedars. not sure how much success ill have with them, i have option to harvest some 1' ones that might take to bonsai better.
-i have two european Beech, one which will be a keeper as it was hard cut naturally and found with umbrella growth, 1" diameter trunk. the other one i hard cut but i heard they are very slow growers so well see how that goes, the good beech isnt in any pics yet
- 2 white Birch just 3" tall, looking to hard cut them once i know they take to trianing pots...theyre tall and thin though right now
-1 small Dogwood sapling, thin, similar to the Birch above
-red maple and norway maple sapplings under 10"
-japanese maple in front yard, had i not pruned so much this summer id air layer some of this too
some veggies and training plants...dont mind to the left of garden, fully legal where i am.
heres what i need help with!!!:
i was on a dog walk around my property, keeping an eye for a white oak, and down low in brush/weeds/congestion i saw
this plant - the blue hue got my eye. the root system was amazing, spliced out flat aerials and a lot of fine roots, small taproot i cut back. i dont know what this is???? in th epic i just found it, i didnt do much of anything to it until i know it takes to the pot. theres drainage in it, etc so dont mind that.
im thinking it is a red cedar, blue (colorado??) spruce, douglas fir, but not positive...
i have this as well not positive what it is, as well, and i havent done anything to it yet:
Thanks everyone,
Tom
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