ElyDave
Yamadori
My mother in law, who sadly passed away last year had a habit of eating stone-fruit and then planting the seeds. I have a group of three superb plum trees from that habit that she gave to me 25 years ago.
Today, I went to rescue two trees in pots in the back garden. I have no idea how long they had been there, but they both had roots that had gone through the bottom of the pots they were in necessitating a hell of a lot of work just to get the pots to move. The pics below are of the smaller of the two, which had as well as escaping downwards, sent a shoot back upwards outside of the pot. I've managed to split it into two unknown (I suspect plum) that I hope will survive, it was as nervewracking as separating siamese twins (who gets which bit of root). They'll just stay in their pots for the next year, though I will need to deal with the massive base on one of them and make a fundamental design choice with the other.
In the close up of the roots, you can see a piece of orange plastic from the original pot, which was my attepted separation point. You can also see where the original roots were, and the massive tap root that I'll need to deal with eventually. Deciding what to do with the offshoot will be interesting. In the final photo, the stump is 3" across adn about 9" high, and is next to my myrobalan plum that I bought as a seedling 25 years ago. I have no idea how old the "new" trees are, but my brother in law said he hacked it back.
Tomorrow I'll post on the suspected apricot, rescue tree #3.
Today, I went to rescue two trees in pots in the back garden. I have no idea how long they had been there, but they both had roots that had gone through the bottom of the pots they were in necessitating a hell of a lot of work just to get the pots to move. The pics below are of the smaller of the two, which had as well as escaping downwards, sent a shoot back upwards outside of the pot. I've managed to split it into two unknown (I suspect plum) that I hope will survive, it was as nervewracking as separating siamese twins (who gets which bit of root). They'll just stay in their pots for the next year, though I will need to deal with the massive base on one of them and make a fundamental design choice with the other.
In the close up of the roots, you can see a piece of orange plastic from the original pot, which was my attepted separation point. You can also see where the original roots were, and the massive tap root that I'll need to deal with eventually. Deciding what to do with the offshoot will be interesting. In the final photo, the stump is 3" across adn about 9" high, and is next to my myrobalan plum that I bought as a seedling 25 years ago. I have no idea how old the "new" trees are, but my brother in law said he hacked it back.
Tomorrow I'll post on the suspected apricot, rescue tree #3.
