With the DLS change I had about an hour of daylight left after work and gym. I figured I would take my trees out of the small house that is really for our well filter. I rebuilt it a few years ago with transparent roof and tall enough for some trees. We have a light that hangs from a bungee cord to keep the filter warm when the temp gets real low and helps the trees from getting too hard a freeze. I check it about every 2-3 weeks throughout the winter and water if needed. I noticed a few weeks ago some white covering on one of my Japanese Maple Arakawa that I had from air layer a few years ago. Last year just as leaves were falling off I looked out the window and see a deer eating my maples, I open the window to scare them (2 doe) , one turns and runs and the other jumps, from a stand still, over this maple. Is broke the half of the top that Y , so I put putty on the break and hoped the top would continue to grow and continue the size of the trunk.
I thought the white was from the die back from the break.
Well today to my surprise , some of the others had the white (maybe aphids ?) stuff and branches dying!
I did not try to scrap the stuff off, just cut the entire branch and had to cut the top out of 2 of them. This was my first attempt at air layer and had done well for 3 years, maybe more.
So now that I have the JM out I got the last 2 trees, bald cypress . Got the fist one, not too big, took it and the pan that it sit in out under the pines. Then I get the last one in the corner, it has a top leader making the tree about 8 foot tall, potted in a milk crate sitting in a container of water. I lift it up and let the water drain out of the soil as it is pretty heavy. Lift it up and move a couple of feet, sit it down, lift again and start coming out the door, the top leader being so tall hits the bungee cord that is attached to the roof joist and knocks it down, I feel it hit my head and then plop on my neck and shoulder and falling into the milk create the tree is in .... wait a minute ... the bungee cord is Red ... this is brown .. camo ..... Surprise ! SNAKE !
Now I am trying to get away from it without dropping the tree. It craws out and goes under the crate as it sits up on the bottom 2x4 of the door. I got a shovel and he is gone now. Started to include a picture but figured some people might not want to see a snake and some may not want to see a dead snake. Around my home, a snake, stick that looks like a snake, garden hose that looks like a snake ... are Gone. Yeah I know the non venomous will keep rats or whatever down and will not hurt you, but they will make me hurt myself! This one looked venomous, had the triangle head.
As I was cutting back the branches on the JM my wife called out the window, are you seeing snakes everywhere now, Yep .
I think to myself , I was about to ask her to help me with that tree as it is heavy, so then it would have been the 2 of us trying to get out of the small doorway and away from the snake, could have been a wreck.
Maybe it was living in the tree and water or just in the room and had run to the corner and top of tree when I was taking them out.
I thought the white was from the die back from the break.
Well today to my surprise , some of the others had the white (maybe aphids ?) stuff and branches dying!
I did not try to scrap the stuff off, just cut the entire branch and had to cut the top out of 2 of them. This was my first attempt at air layer and had done well for 3 years, maybe more.
So now that I have the JM out I got the last 2 trees, bald cypress . Got the fist one, not too big, took it and the pan that it sit in out under the pines. Then I get the last one in the corner, it has a top leader making the tree about 8 foot tall, potted in a milk crate sitting in a container of water. I lift it up and let the water drain out of the soil as it is pretty heavy. Lift it up and move a couple of feet, sit it down, lift again and start coming out the door, the top leader being so tall hits the bungee cord that is attached to the roof joist and knocks it down, I feel it hit my head and then plop on my neck and shoulder and falling into the milk create the tree is in .... wait a minute ... the bungee cord is Red ... this is brown .. camo ..... Surprise ! SNAKE !
Now I am trying to get away from it without dropping the tree. It craws out and goes under the crate as it sits up on the bottom 2x4 of the door. I got a shovel and he is gone now. Started to include a picture but figured some people might not want to see a snake and some may not want to see a dead snake. Around my home, a snake, stick that looks like a snake, garden hose that looks like a snake ... are Gone. Yeah I know the non venomous will keep rats or whatever down and will not hurt you, but they will make me hurt myself! This one looked venomous, had the triangle head.
As I was cutting back the branches on the JM my wife called out the window, are you seeing snakes everywhere now, Yep .
I think to myself , I was about to ask her to help me with that tree as it is heavy, so then it would have been the 2 of us trying to get out of the small doorway and away from the snake, could have been a wreck.
Maybe it was living in the tree and water or just in the room and had run to the corner and top of tree when I was taking them out.