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The Treedeemer
So.. I have a history of killing pines. I had reserved a wild yamadori at a nursery in order to really try and break a pattern. Doing repotting with someone to see what I do wrong. But was told last week that that one is suffering from fungal infection and might not make it through winter.
Today I was at a friends' nursery and he had a big pile of trees that he thought were not economically viable anymore. Some because they dried out in summer, some because of standing around too long and outgrowing the shape. As we hada club day at the nursery, we dove in the pile and pulled some trees out in exchange for a bit of money for the tip jar. I pulled this yellow pine out (Note: It is suppose to be dark blue green; It is a Scotch [hic] pine. This one is one of the trees that grew out too much and received too little fertilizer for a bit and now will need a good year of work to get some growth back on the inside:
Two hours, a wheelbarrow full of dead stuff, some guy wires and a watering can of foliar feed later:
If it responds well, and returns to healthy colour by late spring, I will repot this with a friend and then spend a year focussing on backbudding.
Oh, this is not the nest front. But I realized that only later and do not have a full set of pictures yet. THe lower trunk is much better from another angle
Today I was at a friends' nursery and he had a big pile of trees that he thought were not economically viable anymore. Some because they dried out in summer, some because of standing around too long and outgrowing the shape. As we hada club day at the nursery, we dove in the pile and pulled some trees out in exchange for a bit of money for the tip jar. I pulled this yellow pine out (Note: It is suppose to be dark blue green; It is a Scotch [hic] pine. This one is one of the trees that grew out too much and received too little fertilizer for a bit and now will need a good year of work to get some growth back on the inside:
Two hours, a wheelbarrow full of dead stuff, some guy wires and a watering can of foliar feed later:
If it responds well, and returns to healthy colour by late spring, I will repot this with a friend and then spend a year focussing on backbudding.
Oh, this is not the nest front. But I realized that only later and do not have a full set of pictures yet. THe lower trunk is much better from another angle