HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
End of season update.. with Flower buds for next year... i think... 
5 Year Native Tree/Native Pot - Ribes Considerations.. (HorseloverFat)
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HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Repot on the Smaller, dual-trunked plant. With the information I've learned last year, these gooseberries actually have me pretty excited.
Crazy Diamond
Omono
Hows the big one doing
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Doing well! Almost thawed for repot!
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
ShadyStump
Imperial Masterpiece
This is why it never even entered my mind to use ribes, but I might reconsider now.
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
It's a strange approach.. but I've somewhat documented my trials..
ShadyStump
Imperial Masterpiece
I'm a sucker for trees I can eat.
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Me too!! "Trail Mix"... like... FOODS we find hiking, compose a large part of our spring through fall diet.
Beans, clovers, grapes, serviceberries (My favorite), Raspberries, other Brambleberries, Red and black currants, leeks, garlic mustard, fiddleheads (Still can't get used to them), Walnuts, Hazelnuts..All SORTS of cherries and apples closer to fall..
I'm getting hungry.
Crazy Diamond
Omono
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Deep Sea Diver
Imperial Masterpiece
Well done!
After scanning through this thread it looks like you’ve really getting the “hang” of these plants. It will be interesting to see how these lil ‘uns grow out from here.
Our best looking Ribes imho, Ribes sanguineum is a finicky little curmudgeon in the landscape. Often known to toss whole stems, or have all the superstrupture die back, only to toss shoots the next year, leaving one with a quandary on what to do next with the clump.
After seeing what you’ve accomplished, maybe this year I’ll see if I can get some time to confiscate some knuckles and attempt to follow in your footsteps! Just gotta pot up or up pot about 40 azaleas and 20 maples right now…. onward!
cheers
DSD sends
After scanning through this thread it looks like you’ve really getting the “hang” of these plants. It will be interesting to see how these lil ‘uns grow out from here.
Our best looking Ribes imho, Ribes sanguineum is a finicky little curmudgeon in the landscape. Often known to toss whole stems, or have all the superstrupture die back, only to toss shoots the next year, leaving one with a quandary on what to do next with the clump.
After seeing what you’ve accomplished, maybe this year I’ll see if I can get some time to confiscate some knuckles and attempt to follow in your footsteps! Just gotta pot up or up pot about 40 azaleas and 20 maples right now…. onward!
cheers
DSD sends
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Absolutely!!!!
If necessary, They will abandon LARGE portions, ALL the way to the ground!
In my studies of them in nature... bluffs and wetland edges (God I love it up here!
) It SEEMS like this tendency has to do with how light permeates the "Bramble Areas"These ones, specifically, Are GOOSEBERRY.. Ribes Lacustre, I believe.... They (their clusters of flowers and berries) exist, when existing in a truly natural bramble "edge" at the top-middle-through top... as the canes and lower shrubs fill out, the lower stalks go COMPLETELY dormant as they are shaded out.. once this happens.. NO maristem cells are able to be "activated" at these lower portions (In THIS season).. so if damage occurs to the UPPER foliage... there's no hope for that "trunk"...(Leave the trunk and whack it next spring SOMETIMES will "get things going again".. but their tendency to DROP, and "start over" normally wins.. but this is ONLY important IF this shading out reaction occurs ((Normally only that first collection season)))
Gotta keep light hittin everywhere you'd like to keep. (Which is what we, as Tiny Tree practitioners are doing anyways!
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HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
After this growing season, I'll have enough analysis completed to start producing a "care outline".
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
I feel ya, friend. I'm actually almost completed with repots.. last years seedlings are this years and NEXT year's young stock.. I thought repotting them all would be more... fun... buuut it just seems like sex with a walrus.,. "Are we done here yet!"
Whereas repotting bigger TREES was far more relaxing in comparison than I expected... .
This is my third growing season as a tinytree-ist.. because I started in Late july that first year..
So spring marked my first chance to actually, and correctly, repot my trees that were, also correctly, "left the hell alone" as far as rootwork is concerned!
Alaskanrocket
Yamadori
Hello,
Im a mostly complete newb on here, I have a Black Currant that looks almost exactly like the bigger trunked one in your pictures. I planted it years ago in the yard and it started to look increasingly sicker to the point that last summer it was almost dead, there was one branch left that was still alive and had a handful of leaves. Considering it had such a large trunk I thought it may have some potential for training for bonsai. I dug it up, potted with 50:50 organic/inorganic and within a few weeks it started to bounce back. By the end of the summer it had a couple of new branches coming from the main trunk and was looking pretty healthy with lots of new budding. At any rate, it stayed outside all winter and its just started to warm up above freezing here, so with any luck it should spring to life soon. I can post some pictures if you are interested in seeing it, its kind of uncanny the similarities between yours and mine though. I also have a red currant that was next to it that is in much healthier shape, I might move it to a pot as its in a bad part of the yard. Well, thanks for posting this stuff, its very encouraging that mine may have a chance yet!
Im a mostly complete newb on here, I have a Black Currant that looks almost exactly like the bigger trunked one in your pictures. I planted it years ago in the yard and it started to look increasingly sicker to the point that last summer it was almost dead, there was one branch left that was still alive and had a handful of leaves. Considering it had such a large trunk I thought it may have some potential for training for bonsai. I dug it up, potted with 50:50 organic/inorganic and within a few weeks it started to bounce back. By the end of the summer it had a couple of new branches coming from the main trunk and was looking pretty healthy with lots of new budding. At any rate, it stayed outside all winter and its just started to warm up above freezing here, so with any luck it should spring to life soon. I can post some pictures if you are interested in seeing it, its kind of uncanny the similarities between yours and mine though. I also have a red currant that was next to it that is in much healthier shape, I might move it to a pot as its in a bad part of the yard. Well, thanks for posting this stuff, its very encouraging that mine may have a chance yet!
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Absolutely!!! Post!!!
Do you mean (similarities between) the LONG stemmed one that died all the way down? ... Or.... "The Turtle"?
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
I want to see the red currant, too!
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Holey Carp!!
That was your first post!
Welcome, Traveller!!
The Woody Dwarves (Pa-is) will heave another hemp-bale onto the fire, and stir the soup in recognition of your arrival!
I love it here.. a freaky, communal bazaar.. like a back-alley swap meet of experience and knowledge. Take what you need, give what t'chu can.
Alaska... That's freakin chilly. I'm pretty chilly myself... are you a USDA 2?
@berzerkules is chilly like that.
Pleasure to make your acquaintance.
That was your first post!
Welcome, Traveller!!
The Woody Dwarves (Pa-is) will heave another hemp-bale onto the fire, and stir the soup in recognition of your arrival!
I love it here.. a freaky, communal bazaar.. like a back-alley swap meet of experience and knowledge. Take what you need, give what t'chu can.
Alaska... That's freakin chilly. I'm pretty chilly myself... are you a USDA 2?
@berzerkules is chilly like that.
Pleasure to make your acquaintance.
Alaskanrocket
Yamadori
Thanks for the welcome!Holey Carp!!
That was your first post!
Welcome, Traveller!!
The Woody Dwarves (Pa-is) will heave another hemp-bale onto the fire, and stir the soup in recognition of your arrival!
I love it here.. a freaky, communal bazaar.. like a back-alley swap meet of experience and knowledge. Take what you need, give what t'chu can.
Alaska... That's freakin chilly. I'm pretty chilly myself... are you a USDA 2?
@berzerkules is chilly like that.
Pleasure to make your acquaintance.
In regards to which one it looks like Im guessing the one you refer to as "The turtle". Its got a super fat stumpy lopsided trunk, its a thing of beauty. I think the tree itself is kind of telling me it wants to go cascade perhaps, but it may change its mind after this years new growth.
The red currant is under about 3-4' of snow currently but I'll get some pics as soon as it shows up.
I've trolled here for awhile and the community seems right up my alley.
Im fairly sure that in my particular location in Fairbanks is 3A. We live at a little higher elevation than the actual city so with the temp inversion we very rarely see colder than -30 at the house, however, when its -20 up there its usually -40 to -50 in town.
The pleasure is all mine!
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