Yamadori Ponderosa pine and Rocky Mountain juniper in Georgia?

[Peter@Bonsainut2020]

Hello all, I want to add some Ponderosa pine and RMJ. in my collection . Does anyone know or have experienced how the trees doing in GA.?
Thanks.

 

[Adair M]

Hello all, I want to add some Ponderosa pine and RMJ. in my collection . Does anyone know or have experienced how the trees doing in GA.?
Thanks.

They’ll live.

our long growing seasons make it very difficult to reduce Pondy needles. They also get needlecast easily. Due to our humidity.

RMJ are also less happy in our humidity. An approach that works is to graft shimpaku foliage onto RMJ trunks, and they’ll be fine.

 

[Peter@Bonsainut2020]

Thanks very much Adair M

 

[Pelicano919]

I have both of those trees for the past year here in South Louisiana and both have survived without any signs of decline and in fact went through Hurricane Ida in late August. Yamodori from Black Hills. Though I was somewhat hesitant to “import” these two specimens to such foreign territory it certainly has been rewarding to have success thus far