The Barber's Honeysuckle Yamadori

[The Barber]

Figured I'd start a progress thread for this tree.

This had to be the toughest yamadori I have collected. It is heavy as heck, definitely the largest tree I have collected. Dug a trench, then used the winch on my side by side to finish extraction. It was probably 15 ft tall before I chopped it back.



I think this will end up being the front, but who knows as it develops so not really worried about it for now. I like the movement.

 

[Colorado]

Awesome!

 

[The Barber]

Don't think I posted a photo of the root flare on this beast.

 

[Eckhoffw]

Nice Find! Successfully extracting this one must’ve felt darn good.
How excited are you to see this thing shoot out?!

 

[The Barber]

Nice Find! Successfully extracting this one must’ve felt darn good.
How excited are you to see this thing shoot out?!

That's what she said... sorry I had to.

Darned thing is so heavy, otherwise I really like the tree. It had so many fine roots, I probably should have made a smaller box though, but next spring I will probably repot it and reduce the root ball and get it into a pot. Hopefully it will also reduce the weight, it is hard to move on my own. From what I have read Honeysuckle roots tend to become rootbound fast and repotting once a year isn't surprising.

 

[The Barber]

It ended up pushing so many buds around the base it looked like it had teenage acne. Had to scratch off all those buds before it turned into a shrub. I didn't take pics of how many there were but if you look close you'll see all of the bumps forming. That was from days ago, didn't think to post.


Finally pushing buds up high now, talk about vigor from a yamadori....sheesh, gonna have to battle with all the buds popping up everywhere.

 

[The Barber]

Looks like I'm going to be vigilant with the bud removal, already scratched off 100+ a few weeks ago, already looking like a teenager with bad acne again.

 

[The Barber]

Grown about 3ft branches in a month.

 

[ForrestW]

Nice material-- thats some professional stump harvesting

 

[MMJNICE]

Grown about 3ft branches in a month.

It ended up pushing so many buds around the base it looked like it had teenage acne. Had to scratch off all those buds before it turned into a shrub. I didn't take pics of how many there were but if you look close you'll see all of the bumps forming. That was from days ago, didn't think to post.
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Finally pushing buds up high now, talk about vigor from a yamadori....sheesh, gonna have to battle with all the buds popping up everywhere.
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I see you finally got that monster hinoki cypress potted up are you not going with the split rock planting?

 

[MMJNICE]

Don't think I posted a photo of the root flare on this beast.View attachment 529996

This things are literally bullet proof.. I wish I could see that root flare but I have little patience. I've got a little stump I dig up two years ago and did a soil experiment on it. It grew amazingly in Nothin but oil dry Fertilizer.. it stayed out all winter on a cold concrete slab in the open wind and kept on keeping on no worries.

 

[The Barber]

This things are literally bullet proof.. I wish I could see that root flare but I have little patience. I've got a little stump I dig up two years ago and did a soil experiment on it. It grew amazingly in Nothin but oil dry Fertilizer.. it stayed out all winter on a cold concrete slab in the open wind and kept on keeping on no worries.

Dug through my photos.

 

[The Barber]

I see you finally got that monster hinoki cypress potted up are you not going with the split rock planting?

I potted up 5 of them, 2 died due to high winds and 22 percent humidity...they toppled, spilled soil and the roots dried out.

 

[The Barber]

Couple more photos from collection.

 

[ducreamious]

How is this tree doing now?

 

[The Barber]

How is this tree doing now?

Doing great, I actually pruned it back about half way a couple weeks ago because the branches were about 6 ft tall, figured that was enough vigor it wouldn't hurt it. It's already grown out 8 inches since then.

 

[ducreamious]

Doing great, I actually pruned it back about half way a couple weeks ago because the branches were about 6 ft tall, figured that was enough vigor it wouldn't hurt it. It's already grown out 8 inches since then.

Nice! I collected one this year too, they seem very vigorous.

 

[The Barber]

Nice! I collected one this year too, they seem very vigorous.

I've had them pop up around the house in the past, they are really hard to kill even when you are trying.