I've wound up with some nursery stock I wasn't really wanting to get but free is good. I've enough trouble with wrapping my head around decidous growth pattern and now I have some scotch and austrian pines in nursery containers. I've been reading a ton but have two questions I'd like to ask.
What, if anything, should I do to these guys this year? They're in crappy nursery dirt and have some bar branches/whorls going on but appear healthy. I would've already repotted them but it is late in the year.
Also what correlation do these trees have to pines with more literature such as JBP? I've read that the Austrian can be treated much the same as JBP but not quite as aggressively. The only thing I know about the sylvestris though is they are dying off in this area at a pretty good clip. I've seen that Vance Wood deals with them in much the same way as his mugos repotting and pruning in summer. Is there a relation in maintaining/training the two?
Quite the barrage of questions there.. basically do I trim and/or repot now and is there another training regimen I should emulate? Thanks much!
What, if anything, should I do to these guys this year? They're in crappy nursery dirt and have some bar branches/whorls going on but appear healthy. I would've already repotted them but it is late in the year.
Also what correlation do these trees have to pines with more literature such as JBP? I've read that the Austrian can be treated much the same as JBP but not quite as aggressively. The only thing I know about the sylvestris though is they are dying off in this area at a pretty good clip. I've seen that Vance Wood deals with them in much the same way as his mugos repotting and pruning in summer. Is there a relation in maintaining/training the two?
Quite the barrage of questions there.. basically do I trim and/or repot now and is there another training regimen I should emulate? Thanks much!