Cajunrider
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Today’s loot
Live oak
Bald cypress
Easter red cedar
Live oak
Bald cypress
Easter red cedar
The 2024 Yamadori/Collecting Thread
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The Barber
Chumono
Nice looking haul, didn't know eastern red cedar came in anything but arrow straight lol. Look forward to seeing what you do with that one.
Cajunrider
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The ERC grew under a big oak on a creek bank so it has some movement at the base. I am worried about the oak. By the time I cut away the big root, there were not many roots left.
Cajunrider
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The blade works very well when jabbed into relatively dry ground. However it does not work well as a pruning blade. 5 tpi are too many. I am getting a 3 tpi blade.
The Barber
Chumono
Typical oak dilemma for ya, I have one white oak (I think) that might make it that I rather like, but out of maybe 5 I have collected right now, it is the only one I have hope for.
Here's the one I collected.
Cajunrider
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My clean up crew burned the field and singed a Chinese elm. I dug it up. Here to hope that it lives.
Cajunrider
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Not shown in these pictures ate the tiny young buds that have all burned off. I hope the tree has enough energy to grow new ones.
Cajunrider
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Battered by multiple major hurricanes (Laura and Delta) then ignored in the debris line for 3 years. I believe it will survive the recent burn. The tree has a very promising trunk. It is now in my grow bed.
BrianBay9
Masterpiece
My daughter and son-in-law wanted to get rid of a Quercus suber that was falling into their fence. I obliged.
I found out why it was falling into the fence. The area is kept way too wet. The tree was trying to stand up to the wind, while standing in essentially soupy sand. Not the easiest dig, but it had to come out.
Three-yr-old for scale. The trunk I took certainly weighed more than the three-yr-old.
Home and in a pot with mostly pumice. Will it survive? Can I make anything of it? Time will tell.
I found out why it was falling into the fence. The area is kept way too wet. The tree was trying to stand up to the wind, while standing in essentially soupy sand. Not the easiest dig, but it had to come out.
Three-yr-old for scale. The trunk I took certainly weighed more than the three-yr-old.
Home and in a pot with mostly pumice. Will it survive? Can I make anything of it? Time will tell.
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Mame
you're a braver man than many of us
A braver man than me for sure...
PonderingSage:
Shohin
That thing is a beast! Who knows what what it will do, but worth tossing the dice… as long as you don’t have to move it around much
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Mame
Anyone here in Texas who can get their hands on a cedar elm?
Hello my name is Drake, I’m a forester in south Arkansas. I decided to go into bonsai about a year ago and collected my first tree from the woods and after a two weeks I have a good feeling it might survive. How good of material is this tree, any advice is appreciated 
BrianBay9
Masterpiece
Welcome! What kind of pine do you have there?
Shortleaf
The Barber
Chumono
Can't wait to see what you find being a forester, should be great material out there for you!
BrianBay9
Masterpiece
I have no experience with that pine, but it looks like a nice little start. When you feel confident about collecting and survival, you'll prob upgrade to larger trunks. I also don't know your area, but best collecting is often done on rocky ridges where the tree roots remain shallow. I look for trees in rock pockets that have movement in the trunk and low branching.
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