Scouting for Trees

[thumblessprimate1]

So all of this year's Hackberry that had been kept in a hrated greehouse are growing like in the images here. Ones collected this year but left outside still have not moved. I expect them to bud later.
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This is a stump I was happy to collect, and now happy to see budding in places I wanted to see buds.

 

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First of my earlier winter collected Hackberry left outdoors and is sprouting buds. This one was left tall, about 4 feet. A twin trunk that I'd like to make a clump with in the distant future.

 

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I thought the nodes and smooth bark look interesting. Bark may change.

 

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So how's it lookin'? I think I'm ready for some wiring.

 

[JoeR]

Tinfoil?


Either way, nice starts for some carved sumo shohin!

 

[thumblessprimate1]

I'm considering waiting a little longer. Let them get a little lignified.

As for sumo shohin, I'm not sure I'll go that route. Maybe with a few of the stumps I collected. I mainly want some good ol' nebari and taper development for taller trees.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

I think Cedar Elm.


American Elm?


Hackberry. Short internodes!

 

[thumblessprimate1]

A few of my collected Crape Myrtle look like this. Don't know if alive or dead.



This one though is a beast.

 

[rockm]

I gotta ask..why is everything chopped so low? I understand some of the low cuts, but not nearly all of them...

 

[thumblessprimate1]

If you're talking about the Crape Myrtles, those were cut low not by me, but by maintenance workers. They were growing along a fence.

As for the others, could you point to one? I'll provide you with my thoughts.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Excited today. Buds on my large Hackberry started popping up a few weeks ago but they were near the bottom.



Today I see this.



This might be one of my 60 year projects.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Last posted on this in post 89. Thought it was dead for a long while.


There's another I collected at the same time as this that I threw away. Glad I emptied it from its pot to find some roots (very few) growing a month or two ago. Now after 6 months I see this. Crape myrtle is interesting.