elliott
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Hi
I recently dug a huge, beautiful lanatna from a neighbors yard. It was growing over their sewer line since they planted in the 1940's. it has a base of at least 12''. It looks old as heck and has beautiful movement and taper. I guess the nitrogen it got out of the sewer line helped grow real fat and healthy. Other nearby lantana's planted on the same day were still "sticks".
The elderly lady was happy i removed it off her sewer line. I basicly cut all the branches and flat cut the base leaving just a few roots. It's an invasive tropical and I figured it would be fine. I planted the huge stump in a training bow with a well draining mix, i put cut paste on all the cut branches, rooting hormone on the bottom and put a plastic tent over the top to make a mini green house.
It's only been like 10 days and nothing has popped, and I'm not worried yet, but has anyone else dug a lantana stump with no roots or branches and have it pop out ok?
It's a superlative piece of material and I'm just a little paranoid. Any inpute from your experience will help.
thanks
Elliott
I recently dug a huge, beautiful lanatna from a neighbors yard. It was growing over their sewer line since they planted in the 1940's. it has a base of at least 12''. It looks old as heck and has beautiful movement and taper. I guess the nitrogen it got out of the sewer line helped grow real fat and healthy. Other nearby lantana's planted on the same day were still "sticks".
The elderly lady was happy i removed it off her sewer line. I basicly cut all the branches and flat cut the base leaving just a few roots. It's an invasive tropical and I figured it would be fine. I planted the huge stump in a training bow with a well draining mix, i put cut paste on all the cut branches, rooting hormone on the bottom and put a plastic tent over the top to make a mini green house.
It's only been like 10 days and nothing has popped, and I'm not worried yet, but has anyone else dug a lantana stump with no roots or branches and have it pop out ok?
It's a superlative piece of material and I'm just a little paranoid. Any inpute from your experience will help.
thanks
Elliott