Recent content by keri-wms

Because JBP is faster growing, because it’s easier to graft to, because I had heaps of them, because I was curious, because Beuvronensis has far shorter needles, because they are both 2-needle pines, because if you don’t try anything you will never discover anything, because it’s just a hobby.

Acer Campestre I’ve been ground-growing:

The SCP Beuvronensis in JBP experiment ended up bizarre…the scion swelled right up at the graft! Needles stayed short, would be great if air layered! Kill or cure. I’ll try to remember to take a photo. Meanwhile this is of my Senjumaru grafts on JBP seedling rootstock, might be “Mikawa” seeds...

Like this in fact, a trident I did it to recently.

Just a thought re nebari - you could let it recover and then in a future repot strip a ring of bark off one or more large roots to, in effect, ground layer them. That way in the short term you preserve the energy stored in the big fat over-long roots and later on get fine roots as close to the...

I’m 99% interested in killing insect eggs - wouldn’t chance reusing soil from a fungal damaged/killed tree anyway. It “worked”! Hot streamed perlite lol! I added a cup of water, waited ‘til there was a mini jet if steam from the lid (10min?) and left it for 25min from there. The water boils...

I just found this, very useful: http://phytosphere.com/soilphytophthora/soilsterilization.htm

For years I’ve used deep baking trays and 20min @ 200’c in the oven but A it stinks and B our new fan oven will blow perlite dust everywhere….not good. After LOTS of head scratching I finally settled on trying an electric rice cooker to steam the soil! I picked up a 2L one for £5, bit small but...

I don’t have any pumice, closest thing is perlite but that’s possibly too water retentive. I think the issue was long-standing, there was japanese (landscape?) cloth embedded in the inner root ball!

At least it’s rootball now “fits this pot”….gahhh. I saved this JWP using the gravel method, also had “no roots”, but it was a close thing and took three years, and it lost most branches. The issue with this WAS compost/weevils:

Not 100% sure why but my Senjumaru (sport of Kotobuki) JBP has suffered total root system death. Initially assumed weevils but there’s not much evedence. Did have an original very compact gritty inner rootball and I potted up into looser mix….might be frost, might be over-watering…anyway. The...

Yeah I’m seeing initial “dwarf” scion needle length etc being over the top on JBP rootstock, but maybe that settles down once the root/foliage ratio evens up later on? Hard to know

1yr old Scots ‘Beuvronensis’ on JBP….will cut the understock back in stages over the summer probably.

Blacklight, 10min in Liam Neeson is picking at a Juniper in someone else’s office!

Yup! Still green at least….actually comparing photos there’s some growth, fingers crossed