Recent content by MartyB

Great info thx!

Still growing slooooooooow, only a few clusters have green tips pushing out of the candles. But its pushing out some cones? I should probably remove these? Tips welcome.

Thx for your input. I havent fertilized at all yet, as I understood this impacts needle length. Its been abnormally cold here (Quebec Canada) so I would guess by native species comparison we are a month behind. I have no other pines to compare to. But the off-green yellowy tinge has me...

Hello, This is my first spring season with a JWP, I am still learning how to care for it so I am not familiar with this period yet. I got it mid summer and was able to maintain it until now. I am concerned that it is June1 and the candles are very short, and more on the yellow side of the...

Just an update, the pot in a pot worked quite well. put the pot in a large planter and they left and colonized below. was soil from last year so it went to the compost bin. adios ants

Hey @Cosmos, this one was a gift! I assume it was purchased at Jasmin but I am not sure. I really like it. And alot of good info on chasing ants, my experience with ants is when they are omnipresent they are farming aphids and being a pain. Big red flag to me

Thx for the tip ill have a peek. They seem to be dispersing and more few and far between, it hopefully was not a colony and simply a few overwintering buggers

At least larchs dont mind wetness. I will try flushing them out for now I suppose. My googling shows that some ants can sit there without air for a looong time. Crap

Cool thx. How long is too long for the roots?? Thx again

I went to dig up my conifers I had buried the pots in the ground for the winter. I had wrapped the pots in a geo textile material and when I put them on my bench, I noted some antennas moving from the drainage holes. Some annoying ants have decided it was a good place to spend winter I...

was very interesting to meet you all. I am not quite at your level yet but I am making my way there hopefully. Alot of very smart and well educated folks! Looking forward to learning some skills and techniques.

here is a pic of the tree. I took some cuttings from the base of it on sept 30th and some are rooting already. I tried to get some good fat shoots coming from the rootbase of the parent tree and from what I can see so far a large number of cuttings are showing signs of progress.

I am in for any and all info sure. I am also growing some olive tree cuttings from a rather large and (illegally) imported variety that was itself a cutting 40 years ago. Last year I spotted a 10 foot tall olive tree in someone's driveway and I went over and chatted with the individual, and he...

I asked in another thread a while ago if it was Larch or not and it was somewhat open ended. I keep waiting for needles to drop to know for sure. A tamarack in the neighbours yard has yet to drop its needles so its not time for them yet

Over the last little while I have been watching a larch, that has been showing some signs of browning on some lower branches. I was wondering if anyone would comment on whether or not this is normal? It started being visible when temperatures were still warm above 22C, now nights are cool and...