atlarsenal
Omono
When is it too late to collect deciduous? And when is it too late to repot and do root work? After buds have opened or do I still have time?
If you keep that one happy and growing well, I bet you get another bud there... and you can always thread or approach graft down the road.Thanks Dav4, that’s what I was thinking. My problem is being careful enough not to knock the buds off. I potted this little beauty up a couple of weeks ago and knocked a bud off in the perfect spot, on the right, outside bend. Still pretty bummed about it.
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And thanks Sorce but I was thinking more along the line of when it was too late to collect period. I wouldn’t be repotting those for a couple of years at least.
I don’t do mame ?.... but I’m sure it can be done.Hoping for another bud! Never thought about grafting on something that small! Have you grafted on a mame?
too late to collect period
I successfully spring repotted everything I had for over a decade in zone 6 MA... maples, collected junipers, jbp, etc. most people up north do so, too....I would go on to argue that the only reason you guys are successful in spring repotting is Because of the health % being just a bit greater.
Which is to say if you repot and collect in summer, your development may get much faster.
Sorce
I'll disagree
But I also don't prescribe to cutting all the roots off of anything ever!
My only success there has been with collected stuff going right back into the ground...in spring. And was only root chopped due to necessity.
I successfully spring repotted everything I had for over a decade in zone 6 MA... maples, collected junipers, jbp, etc. most people up north do so, too....
It had two giant roots coming out the bottom. They kind of looked like boobies when I cut them off! They were as big around as my wrist and 8"long. I tried doing root cuttings with them upside down for taper but they didnt take.But what made it absolutely necessary?
All I know is that, where I lived up there, our first frost usually came by the second week in October, we had hard freezes through April, and could have frosts into May. Down here, the winters are almost as cold but shorter by about a month on either side.