"New" Ulmus minor, another one bites the dust!

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This one was collected on 14/02/2021


At 07/04/2021


At 21/05/2021


Next year I'll do some airlayers, by now it's growing like a weed!

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We'll see.

Cheers.
 

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Can it sustain and grow with those small roots ?
Take a look at the first post and look how big the raw material was, and how few roots it had. Now in proportion, it is plenty of roots!!
I give you credit - you do some of the most aggressive things to your plant material... and yet they always seem to survive :)
Elms are quite difficult to kill. Specially if they are strong, and with few buds to fed.
Balance is the key. No branches, no much roots needed. So you can be brave pruning both: roots and branches, and let the plat recover after that.
 
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Take a look at the first post and look how big the raw material was, and how few roots it had. Now in proportion, it is plenty of roots!!

Elms are quite difficult to kill. Specially if they are strong, and with few buds to fed.
Balance is the key. No branches, no much roots needed. So you can be brave pruning both: roots and branches, and let the plat recover after that.
I started doing some hard prunings on my elms after watching you cut almost everything down, but I always leave a bit more roots, I guess I can be wilder
 

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Well, roots not are always mandatory....for elms.

This one is the craziest "cutting" I had never seen

And it survived

So for a elm, heavy root pruning is not a challenge....if they have no branches to feed.

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