The Five Year "Native Tree, Native Pot" Challenge!

Lumaca

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Can a newbie get a participation medal? I got a couple of sticks in pots from when I was just buying random local trees. So far I have a pinus merkusii, a couple of ficus benjamina veriegata (native to me), a couple of agathis damara, and a couple of eucalyptus deglupta. Currently they're all just growing trunks except the merkusii that I bought for t̶o̶r̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ wiring practice.

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Can a newbie get a participation medal? I got a couple of sticks in pots from when I was just buying random local trees. So far I have a pinus merkusii, a couple of ficus benjamina veriegata (native to me), a couple of agathis damara, and a couple of eucalyptus deglupta. Currently they're all just growing trunks except the merkusii that I bought for t̶o̶r̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ wiring practice.

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I'm just considering it motivation to learn about and work a tree I haven't before. I like that they aren't called a competition but a challenge. It's not necessarily about beating anyone just challenging yourself to make progress while not getting over aggressive and killing your tree.
 

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Ok I'm in. As a beginner with a lot of native saplings in my back yard and no large budget, I think participating will give me a solid focus to get started.

Edit: Jluke33's Black Willow. We'll see if I can control the growth on a rooted cutting I took earlier this year!
 
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mdavis27

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I am in, south Louisiana has some good choices for this (plant wise anyway, pots may be a trickier story)
 

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Nope!

Just go out, join in and show the old hands how it is done by taking the grand price!

I will definitely give it a good shot! I am starting from very small sticks, but hopefully I can depend on my climate and long growing season.

Do we have to submit our entries for approval to someone?
 

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In my experience with two attempts, ninebark is very vulnerable to powdery mildew and root fungal infections. There is also a species-specific ninebark borer that can kill a tree in three days.
Thank you! I will “arm” myself with this knowledge.. but I AM American.. so there will also be bullets.

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The whole “sad, but true” thing.. is WHY I have to arm myself... my town is under 4,000 people and I’ve seen/heard oftwo armed robberies, 3 knife assaults, 1 child trafficking ring taken down, and a pregnant woman get jumped by three people and a baseball bat..and I’ve only lived here7 years.. if it’s THIS bad in “the sticks”.. I can’t imagine how bad the larger areas are THESE days.. and I spent some of my “formative growing up years” running around”Detroit like a hooligan.

TERRIBLE current state of affairs. :(

My kids have to live in this world. :(
 

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(I feel it’s also worth noting that my county was recently ((in the past five years)) voted the “safest county in Wisconsin”)
 
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