Red Maple Cuttings in progress

[Darth Masiah]

 

[Darth Masiah]

trying to get some subtle bends in

 

[Darth Masiah]

 

[Darth Masiah]

repot time for these two four and a half year olds. you can see the strong roots pushing against the plastic. im going to see how they do in colanders this year. nebaris are shaping up nicely. cutting back the sacrifices a little on the more natural upright tree to try to get a few more secondary trunks started. going to keep thickening the curvy one. next year I'll probably add another colander underneath to increase growth rate while still keeping the nebari in check. there's a nice balance in the nebari right now and we want to increase ramification, not grow the roots out of proportion to the trunk size.

 

[Darth Masiah]

 

[Zelrod]

I like this thread a lot. Your trees are off to a great start! Very nice progression from cuttings. Keep the updates coming!

 

[Darth Masiah]

i took the red maple and kotohime shoots from the pruning i did at repot and stuck them in some coco/perlite. didn't have much success striking cuttings last spring/summer, or with using inorganic substrate that dryed out too fast. i had 100% success rate taking redwood cuttings last year right before the buds start pushing out in a more water retentive substrate. we'll see how they do. my half assed, devil may care style growing doesn't help cloning success rates.

 

[Darth Masiah]

looks like my pruning has triggered a few options

 

[Darth Masiah]

 

[Darth Masiah]

pinched off like four of the biggest leaves for extra light.

 

[bwaynef]

Its truly impressive the buttressing you're getting in just a few years. What's the wire across the soil surface about?

 

[Darth Masiah]

What's the wire across the soil surface about?

i noticed the wind would catch the big leaves up top and rock it a little.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Nice! I hadn't been here in a while.

I love Rubrums and experiment exhaustively with them.

Those southern Reds... They KNOW it's not the south, up here.. I have to protect them like a zone 5 or 6... I lost a bunch and had a few die way back.

I can NOT treat them like Northern Rubrum.


So interesting. Seed source is a fun variable to play with when you are obsessed with genetics and selection.

 

[Darth Masiah]

 

[Darth Masiah]

autumn planning

 

[Darth Masiah]

february cutting got separated.
here's three almost perfect root bases


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