Ulmus Selfie Contest!

[sorce]

Hmmmm, very interesting. (nods thoughtfully) I fear you are correct in that evaluation.

In all seriousness though, I will have some pretty large scars on the trunk if I remove all branches, won't they take a long time to scar over?

As I was thinking, "I got one with some giant ass scars...." I read Vin's post, and I was like, ah, yes!

I'd start with the bottom one year and work my way up in following yearly increments.

This way, your first branch will end up a year bigger, and so on up, so your diminishing thickness is accomplished too!

Then you'll have growth still to heal each cut as well.

Win win.

Looks healthy enough! Love the trunk!

Sorce

 

[clevetromba]

As I was thinking, "I got one with some giant ass scars...." I read Vin's post, and I was like, ah, yes!

I'd start with the bottom one year and work my way up in following yearly increments.

This way, your first branch will end up a year bigger, and so on up, so your diminishing thickness is accomplished too!

Then you'll have growth still to heal each cut as well.

Win win.

Looks healthy enough! Love the trunk!

Sorce

So you wouldn't remove the top of the trunk until possibly the fourth year? 1st branch, 2nd branch, 3rd branch, and then the trunk. Well, I have all Fall and Winter to think about it.

 

[sorce]

So you wouldn't remove the top of the trunk until possibly the fourth year? 1st branch, 2nd branch, 3rd branch, and then the trunk. Well, I have all Fall and Winter to think about it.

Depending on the growth, weather, squirrels, etc..

I think its a plan!
Perfect? Probly not!

Sorce

 

[Alain]

Love the trunk!
Sorce

Me too, a lot!

 

[Alain]

Here's my second one: I thought this was the same species as the first one, which was why I used it as a thread graft, but you can see the leaves on this one are much bigger than the first!
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Not than I'm an expert in elm identification (or whatever trees identification for that matter) but it seems to me that the size of the leaves doesn't mean a lot with elm, I saw a lot of them with very different leave's size, even on the same tree.

 

[clevetromba]

Me too, a lot!

Thanks Alain and Sorce!
By the way, I found this picture that shows my two Elms a few years ago when one was being used as a threadgraft donor for the other. I eventually planted the donor in the ground to speed up growth of the graft. They've come a long way!

 

[bonsaiBlake]

Some cuttings I took this spring from an American elm that took on its own and has never been watered in the scrub out back of work.
That hat is in my back pocket right now as i'm on lunch, the heat aint no joke where I live.

 

[M. Frary]

Working at a nursery is way cool isn't it? I miss it.

 

[bonsaiBlake]

Working at a nursery is way cool isn't it? I miss it.

Best job I've ever had. . . .

 

[Mellow Mullet]

I finally decided t join the fun and post my ugly mugg with an elm. Here is my tiny Zelcova, in a training pot. hopefully the roots will have grown some by spring.
For better or worse, here it is:

 

[Mellow Mullet]

Here is a cork bark elm, started from a cutting.

 

[Mellow Mullet]

And, a winged-elm. This wing up really nice this year.

 

[sorce]

Awesome John!

When you don't have the appropriate hat, you realize you have the MOST appropriate hat!

This one is up there!

Sorce

 

[Vin]

And, a winged-elm. This wing up really nice this year.

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Easy Buddy, this is a "G Rated" site. You'll be recieving a call from Playgirl if you keep posting photos like this

 

[M. Frary]

Where is the hairdo. I had a picture of a Joe Dirt Mullet in my mind.

 

[Mellow Mullet]

Where is the hairdo. I had a picture of a Joe Dirt Mullet in my mind.

I did have a mullet back in the 80's while in high school, it was the style back then, however unfortunate.

The "mullet" that my screen name refers to is this:



Growing up on the coastal Alabama, I have caught tons of these. Tasty for breakfast fried up real crispy and served with cheese grits and cathead biscuits. The fry (baby or juvenile) are excellent bait for other species like red fish, speckled trout, etc.

John

 

[Dave E]

it's past time to remove the wire from these elms so while i was at it i decided nows as good a time as any to snap some shots of them with my ugly mug for the ulmus selfie contest

 

[sorce]

Hell yeah Dave E.
Any one of those would make a lovely avatar pic!

Welcome to automatic excellence!

Sorce

 

[Dave E]

thanks for the welcome.
it's crazy 6 weeks ago these were as skinny as a disposable chop stick and 16- 18" tall now they're like a sharpie even fatter at the base and 24"+there's one not wired that's gotta be 36"

 

[tim_meh87]

Not my planting. . But here's some elm porn for you guys. The planting is something like 41 trees planted and maintained by Rudi Adam, a South African bonsai master known for his olives and forest plantings