The 2024 Yamadori/Collecting Thread

[We're all Mad Here...🎩]

All 4 live oaks I collected have budded. Collected in February, they took 6-7 weeks to bud. I have two in pots and two in grow beds. All were planted in potting soil. Trunk sizes range from 1.5 to 2.5”
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Looking great. I always thought I'd be sacrificed for mentioning potting soil, but you've saved me here. Happy growing.

 

[Cajunrider]

Looking great. I always thought I'd be sacrificed for mentioning potting soil, but you've saved me here. Happy growing.

I know potting soil isn't the best thing for them but that's what I have. The one thing I have to be really careful with planting collected trees in potting soil is the watering schedule. I have to be judicious else the newly formed roots will rot. I plan to move these to better soil next spring.

 

[We're all Mad Here...🎩]

I know potting soil isn't the best thing for them but that's what I have. The one thing I have to be really careful with planting collected trees in potting soil is the watering schedule. I have to be judicious else the newly formed roots will rot. I plan to move these to better soil next spring.

Yeah I always amend mine with other things like fine pine chunks and some pumice for aeration. Also I always use an organic blend that is pretty chunky I find at lowes that contains woody chunks similar to nursery soils.

 

[The Barber]

I tend to just go with a mix of pine bark, pumice, and peat...the soil I collect from tends to be more acidic though, so peat isn't bad and seems to work well. Yesterday had high winds and the relative humidity when I got home from work was 22 percent... talk about aweful...usually Kentucky is humid af.

 

[CreekChalk]

Sycamore

 

[CreekChalk]

I’ve been abusing these Ashe juniper. Will continue to develop in ground and air layer next yr and then prep for collection in 2-3 yrs.

 

[CreekChalk]

Sycamore

A few sycamore in my creek that I have been chopping and feeding my goats. Plan to continue until they look like they’re ready and then it’s skid steer time for collecting.

 

[Bonsai Nut]

Spent yesterday potting up some Japanese hollies out of my landscape. I think they were planted circa 1974 (when our old house was built).

 

[Cajunrider]

Sumo
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Sumo has budded.

 

[Cmd5235]

Finished collecting for this spring- mostly hackberries, a few oaks, some beech, a hornbeam, a huge dogwood, and a super contorted azalea that I have no clue what to do with

 

[Cajunrider]

Finished collecting for this spring- mostly hackberries, a few oaks, some beech, a hornbeam, a huge dogwood, and a super contorted azalea that I have no clue what to do with

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What a haul!

 

[BrianBay9]

Finished collecting for this spring- mostly hackberries, a few oaks, some beech, a hornbeam, a huge dogwood, and a super contorted azalea that I have no clue what to do with

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Love that hackberry bark!

 

[Cmd5235]

What a haul!

These will get low chops after a few years depending on how they bud out. Except for the hackberry!

 

[19Mateo83]

Finished collecting for this spring- mostly hackberries, a few oaks, some beech, a hornbeam, a huge dogwood, and a super contorted azalea that I have no clue what to do with

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Good looking stumps there! That twisted one bottom left is killer! How’s the elm recovering from its travels?

 

[circledisk]

I’m having a lot of trouble with one of the two thick Hornbeams I collected at the end of February here. One of them is producing one nice bud on the trunk and a few suckers, while the other has no signs of life.

From everyone’s collective experience, how long does it take for the dormant buds on C Caroliniana to pop after collection? 2 months? 3?

 

[19Mateo83]

I’m having a lot of trouble with one of the two thick Hornbeams I collected at the end of February here. One of them is producing one nice bud on the trunk and a few suckers, while the other has no signs of life.

From everyone’s collective experience, how long does it take for the dormant buds on C Caroliniana to pop after collection? 2 months? 3?

Sometimes they are slow to wake and sometimes they never do. How here the roots on it at collection? A decent amount of fine roots? Some of mine were late and are just starting to push. If they don’t push by June they are goners.

 

[circledisk]

Almost no fine roots. Basically bare rooted to the monster main roots at the trunk. Lots of green on the cambium still, so hopefully they push in a few weeks.

 

[Cmd5235]

Good looking stumps there! That twisted one bottom left is killer! How’s the elm recovering from its travels?

Thanks, that’s a huge azalea. It was dug out of a friends yard, he put it in a pile, I grabbed it after a month, and now it’s starting to push buds, so we’ll see how it looks (or if it lives) in a year or two.

Elm is recovering wonderfully!

 

[Cmd5235]

Love that hackberry bark!

Thank you, hopefully this one buds back as well as the other, I want to keep as much of it as stylistically feasible

 

[ShadyStump]

And the second f. anomala is budding out.