CWTurner
Omono
I got a call from my cemetery contact a week or two ago, saying that they pulled some more azalea that I might be interested in. I did collect a couple and while I was there they pulled a half dozen more and dropped them in the dump area for me.
Here's some pics.
This was an easy one.
Bare rooted
Here's a couple of large ones coming off the truck.
One of them wasn't worth collecting but the other seemed to be, so I watered it with a 5 gallon bucket for a few days while I collected some others.
First I chopped it back some, taking out dead and overly straight branches.
Then I reduced the size of the root ball.
I turned it on its side and cut the ball to 6" or so. This can often require a chain saw if there is one massive root, but this one didn't have that and all-in-all I spent about 45 hot minutes getting it into my trunk.
I let a hose mist it overnight with some old towels wrapped around the roots. Then I cleaned out the crotch to see what I could use. What a mess. (as in other walks of life, until you clean out the crotch, you don't know what you're working with)
There was some interesting trunk in there but unfortunately only one side with potential. If I chopped in to just that trunk, I would have lost almost all the nebari. Still, I had to remove some side branches that left this pretty ugly. So I got aggressive and squared off the root ball and boxed it up.
I know I gotta cut this more, but for now, I'm gonna wait ti see if it lives.
I'll post some pics of the others when I have time.
CW
Here's some pics.
This was an easy one.
Bare rooted
Here's a couple of large ones coming off the truck.
One of them wasn't worth collecting but the other seemed to be, so I watered it with a 5 gallon bucket for a few days while I collected some others.
First I chopped it back some, taking out dead and overly straight branches.
Then I reduced the size of the root ball.
I turned it on its side and cut the ball to 6" or so. This can often require a chain saw if there is one massive root, but this one didn't have that and all-in-all I spent about 45 hot minutes getting it into my trunk.
I let a hose mist it overnight with some old towels wrapped around the roots. Then I cleaned out the crotch to see what I could use. What a mess. (as in other walks of life, until you clean out the crotch, you don't know what you're working with)
There was some interesting trunk in there but unfortunately only one side with potential. If I chopped in to just that trunk, I would have lost almost all the nebari. Still, I had to remove some side branches that left this pretty ugly. So I got aggressive and squared off the root ball and boxed it up.
I know I gotta cut this more, but for now, I'm gonna wait ti see if it lives.
I'll post some pics of the others when I have time.
CW