Recent content by Salcomine

I clipped this guy off the tree cause half the leaves fell off in the heat and the rest were yellowing, the other layers show heat stress wilting and bit of discoloration. Here's one of the others right after I did it back in the middle of June. Maybe I'll throw some tinfoil over them.

Hi, I have a fairly large lilac that needed a trim this spring so I tried out a few air layers on it. One of them recently started having yellowed leaves so I checked it and there's no root started. I'm afraid the other 3 will be similar, is there anything I can do to help make roots grow...

I signed up for a free trial of his videos, was there a specific one that stood out to you, there's a couple on ponderosa but mostly yamadori.

Thanks for the replies, I'm on the right track I'll wait till end of August or so to give it a bend.

Hi, I got a new Ponderosa and I'd like to throw some big bends into it. What's the best time of year to do this? I'm going to pluck all the needles along the trunk and wrap it with some raffia then apply some thick copper and try and get some movement in it. It's still pretty flexible so kinda...

That cool, musta missed reading that. My only black spruce I collected in early June 2017. It spent the first summer in the shade behind my garage. Pulled it outta the side of a hill so it was planted leaning over but has since righted itself.

Hey man I'm way up in Canada too, just a lot west of you and not quiet as remote. So pumice might not be the easiest to find but the best mix I've found is antislip lava rock from home hardware which is kinda seasonal and fired clay floor absorbent, I get mine from princess auto. I usually...

I've got a bunch of spruce that were hit with a deffoliant about 6 years ago, not really mutagenic but they've been stunted for a few years. Mostly all you get is a sickly tree. This little guy puts out needles half the size of normal, but just barely put out new growth each year. Others have...

We got a lot of swings, down to -20 then back up to 0. Figured this cherry was done for but it popped a couple leaves and now buds are popping at the crooks of all the dead branches.

Some repots for this year Going to try and ground layer off the root stock on the far right crab apple next year.

Uh oh, lost the tops on my Japanese and Korean maples

Thanks @Deep Sea Diver ! This is its 4th year in this pot so that works out good. I think I'll be keeping these 2 green branches and removing the rest since they seem to all come out of the same spot. Probably shoulda done it earlier since it's starting to get a bit of a buldge. I've removed...

Hi, I have this mugo pine and it's kinda a mess, i havent really done anythig to it for a few years. I have been hoping to get some back budding to shorten the branches but I'm not sure what I can actively do to promote it. I'd also like to remove a bunch of the branches but not sure how many I...

Big leaf maple Oak leaf maple or something Needs one more big clip Japanese maple, Northern glow

Amur maples New one