Collecting 2020

[atlarsenal]

This is a thread for anyone who wants to post their trees they are collecting this year. So post em up! What y’all diggin?

I’ll start it out with my first for this year. I believe it is probably a sugar maples. It was marked about this same time last year so I did not see it in leaf.


I dug three other small hop-hornbeams but they are not photo worthy.

I’ll be adding quite a few more over the next couple of weeks but in the mean time y’all show what you’re collecting.

 

[Tbrshou]

Well I've been having a blast my first official collecting season. Turns out with all this rain and I'm 6'6" 308 lbs, shovels just seem to go in the ground like butter. Not to mention the 20V sawzall saves the day a lot. I'm not 100% sure of the identities of these trees I'm goin off of what the picture this app said during October scouting.
Picture 1) American Hornbeam
2) American Hornbeam or beech
3) Elliott's Blueberry
4) American Hornbeam
5) American Hornbeam (Harry Potters sorting hat)
6) Winged Elm.
Now I know there's so many flaws and so much work that needs to be done, so much growth for taper and root work but I haven't been this excited about the future in a while, the last thing that got me this excited was recording 4 sacks in a game. Now I'm gonna bag em and mist em and see what develops.

 

[Grantthornhill]

This is a Fagus sylvatica air grafted last year and lifted in the autumn. New roots are already visible at the base.

 

[BrianBay9]

Here are some coast live oaks I collected this year. First attempts so I took some big ones, some little ones. All but one are budding out.

 

[BrianBay9]

 

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[Hack Yeah!]

I pulled a few this weekend with @atlarsenal , big telephone pole winged elm, will have to get some more pictures of the others

 

[atlarsenal]

@Hack Yeah! Not much root there bro. I hope it makes it.

 

[Mikecheck123]

I pulled a few this weekend with @atlarsenal , big telephone pole winged elm, will have to get some more pictures of the othersView attachment 282285

Live or die, that trunk is a work of art.

 

[Big Country Bonsai]

First off is a couple of Buckley oak I collected early January. Still waiting on bud break but I have high hopes for them.

 

[Big Country Bonsai]

Next up a couple junipers.

 

[Hack Yeah!]

Here are some American beech seedlings... I'll try to push them around a little more if they survive.

 

[Hack Yeah!]

And a native maple, I'll chop a little lower after it buds out.

 

[atlarsenal]

Here is a quick pic of today’s digging. Not much fun in the snow & rain. I will post more as I get them potted. Hornbeams, hop-hornbeams, beech and the long skinny ones are shag bark hickory that my friend is planting in his landscape.

 

[RobertB]

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These are really nice!

 

[atlarsenal]

I figured I would tackle the biggest one first. This is an American Hornbeam, I think I will call this one “The Beast”!

 

[Big Country Bonsai]

I was able to score a couple redberry junipers this weekend and an Ashe juniper.
I was working on getting a large hybrid oak out but I was running out of light so I covered the hole. I will go back in a couple days and finish the job!

 

[atlarsenal]

Here is a muscadine.

 

[atlarsenal]

This is a hackberry with not much root. I put down heavy aeration layer of soil profector, dusted what little root it had with rooting hormone and potted in potting soil. We’ll see what happens.

 

[atlarsenal]

Here is another sugar maple. I know they have pretty course growth but I’ve got to give it a try.