M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
I promised I would post a picture of this tree on a different thread.
About 2 or 3 months ago.
Better late than ever.
I can't find the thread but then again I could have looked a little harder.
That thread was about "sweating" hawthorns after collection.
I don't subscribe to that kind of weird stuff.
I just chop,dig and pot them up.
I actually dug this one up in early spring.
Early enough that I thought it may not make it.
We had some freezing weather 2 days after I collected it and it froze solid.
Then it was rain then back to freezing.
Rinse,repeat.
I lost a few established trees this spring due to thaw,rain,freeze cycles.
But this pulled through.
This is what I usually see with hawthorns after they start sprouting.
They react almost like elms in that they push buds out all over the place and out of or right under the cut.
No cut paste. Why use it with these results.
But a colander. Turbo charger for collected trees and recovering trees.
No fat circling roots but nice fine feeder roots faster.
I did leave a little field soil at the base in order to see if they recover better than being bare rooted.
Looks like it.
I'll get the field soil out when I remove it from the colander in 2 years.
It's in the field soil back filled with D.E. and lava around it.
I'm just letting it do it's thing this year and then next spring I'll do the branch selecting.
About 2 or 3 months ago.
Better late than ever.
I can't find the thread but then again I could have looked a little harder.
That thread was about "sweating" hawthorns after collection.
I don't subscribe to that kind of weird stuff.
I just chop,dig and pot them up.
I actually dug this one up in early spring.
Early enough that I thought it may not make it.
We had some freezing weather 2 days after I collected it and it froze solid.
Then it was rain then back to freezing.
Rinse,repeat.
I lost a few established trees this spring due to thaw,rain,freeze cycles.
But this pulled through.
This is what I usually see with hawthorns after they start sprouting.
They react almost like elms in that they push buds out all over the place and out of or right under the cut.
No cut paste. Why use it with these results.
But a colander. Turbo charger for collected trees and recovering trees.
No fat circling roots but nice fine feeder roots faster.
I did leave a little field soil at the base in order to see if they recover better than being bare rooted.
Looks like it.
I'll get the field soil out when I remove it from the colander in 2 years.
It's in the field soil back filled with D.E. and lava around it.
I'm just letting it do it's thing this year and then next spring I'll do the branch selecting.
