JBP From Seed For The 1st Time - the force is not strong in this one

[Darth Masiah]

i plan on planting my seedling cuttings for exposed root style in these narrow, but deep vessels until i repot and wire at the start of year 3. i wasted a lot of space in the upper half of the, ...around 4" x 4" pots i'm using. these are about 2" x 10". after a piece of screen and a zip tie, and a creative way to hold them upright, you're good to go.

 

[Darth Masiah]

5/22/21
and we're back at it

 

[Darth Masiah]

youtube update

 

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6/27/21
transplant to the dead one's pots. all the extra ones in this pot under the bench did fine.

 

[Darth Masiah]

the dead and dying




the 3 double cut seedlings are happy

 

[Darth Masiah]

7/8/21
wire is cutting in

 

[Darth Masiah]

7/11/21
well, i definitely got the root system closer to the first needles with these double cut seedlings. didn't want them tangling together, so i threw them in their own cylinders. they should produce more roots as the stems increase in girth. (insert peter griffin laugh here )

 

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[Potawatomi13]

Thread title now seems incorrect. Why grow so many?

 

[Darth Masiah]

Thread title now seems incorrect. Why grow so many?

i was wondering when someone would call me out over my self deprecating title. why grow so many you ask: well, why not? you never know what'll happen. i like having spare parts around. I'm curious how many trees is too many for me personally to take care of, though that meta is going to take awhile to play out as i have my own yard now and a box of automated watering junk in the closet. usually when you make something cool, you'll wish you had made two. i hear too many growers lamenting about the flats they never started. thats how much substrate i could afford at the time ramble ramble rambling, ect. ✌

 

[Potawatomi13]

i was wondering when someone would call me out over my self deprecating title. why grow so many you ask: well, why not? you never know what'll happen. i like having spare parts around. I'm curious how many trees is too many for me personally to take care of, though that meta is going to take awhile to play out as i have my own yard now and a box of automated watering junk in the closet. usually when you make something cool, you'll wish you had made two. i hear too many growers lamenting about the flats they never started. thats how much substrate i could afford at the time ramble ramble rambling, ect. ✌

Well one can see the auto H2O system failing and killing many trees so that will thin out some. Never DEPEND on technology to do job human should do. Doing for self will help educate how many is enough. Personally each trees life is precious. Death only when cannot be prevented.

 

[Ryceman3]

Grow as much as you dare for as long as you can in whatever way you think will work best. That way, you’ll never wonder “what if?”
Love your work.

 

[Darth Masiah]

 

[Darth Masiah]

about to start 2022 with some new year's eve luck. from darth's bonsai table to yours...

(this morning at work)

 

[Darth Masiah]

3/14/2022
repotting one of my 2yr olds that i never seedling cut. a bug had pretty much candle cut it right before i was going to stem cut it, so i just left it alone to grow. it ended up responding the same as when you candle cut in june, and sent four needle buds out that i reduced to two last fall. i repotted and lightly wired it last spring, but the roots looked wack, so i just set it back in it's little pot. didn't really root prune this time either, as there wasn't much mycorrhizae in the soil and i want the roots extending and thickening for exposed root style. the movement from the first wiring was seriously lacking, so my main aim was to set this guy up for the future a little better. i cringe at these exposed root pines that have a straight section of truck right after the beautiful, twisty roots. seems keeping the movement consistent with other parts of the tree isn't talked about very much.

 

[Darth Masiah]

and a 2yr old seedling cutting

 

[Darth Masiah]

looks like the babies have needle blight. the needles started browning so fast in the last couple weeks i thought it might have something to do with the surprise deep freeze we had on the 12th where it hit 20°F after being over 80° at one point. i lost quite a few cuttings. would over saturation with overly concentrated wetable sulfer hurt them this bad, because that happened this month, too last years needles on the 3yr olds look decent for now.

 

[Darth Masiah]

cute.



wow! they pop off really easy at this stage. damn elbow

 

[Darth Masiah]

using perlite/coco coir for this years cuttings. i need that circular root base for a few formal upright type trees. looks to me like even the sand grains i was using were big enough to block new roots pushing out from the cutting and they end up looking like in post #47.

 

[Darth Masiah]

my four 2 yr old, future exposed root style jbp