bonsaiDerek
Mame
When is the right time to take my trees out of their winter storage which is an unheated garage?
Btw I'm in southern Wisconsin
Btw I'm in southern Wisconsin
I’m in Minnesota and am wondering the same.When is the right time to take my trees out of their winter storage which is an unheated garage?
Btw I'm in southern Wisconsin
state of budding
While this may be a good indicator for some, always. For others, it can mean nothing at all. Which can be deceiving if folks use it as an indicator.
Here, ground maples are flowering, hardy shrubs are budding, and some Deciduous trees are just expanding, junipers have fractions of inches of new growth.
The long forecast has been jumping back and forth saying no more below freezing, then freezing again, but a freeze hasn't been passed the 12th of April yet. Since the beginning of March.
So....
Since some trees are budding, yet there will still be a freeze, you know that that freeze isn't really going to fuck much up.
What's going to fuck up more, is dancing your trees in and out.
There are 2 types of people, the people who look at the forecast to do to their trees.
And those who look at their trees to make a forecast.
You can't be the latter if your trees are confused.
Healthy trees allow the latter, and the latter allows for healthy trees.
Year 3 with only ground protection, no deaths.
Including my 3x0.5 inch potted boxwood.
Sorce
If you have to ask when to take your trees out,
I was gonna say.... The most surest time is when the new foliage begins to touch each other in the close winter quarters.
But I guess if you have to Repot...(Repot in the summer) but if you HAVE to Repot, that'll be a bit late ish... Ish...cuz probly not right?
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You know what's backwards too?
People think trees more tolerant of cold wake up early, go to sleep late, but it's not true at all. Cuz they know better.
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I think everyone is wrong because there is a beginning path that changes what is correct that no one takes.
Many confused trees out there.
Sorce
I started repotting on new years day, and the lowest it got since was 34° and that was once. The lowest its really been is high 30s low 40s without a frost chance in sight around.
For conifers, when leaving it in storage would cause long, leggy growth due to the lack of light.When is the right time to take my trees out of their winter storage