The Yamadori Thread

[River's Edge]

Age, Character, Movement, size, interior growth rejuvenating. Nice combination. My second thought is it is a good thing the collector is younger than myself.
Well done.

 

[Craigm]

another little one from down under



Melaleuca,
swamp paperbark.

 

[BigLog]

Hornbeam: collected this Spring and showing signs of life.

 

[PiñonJ]

Picea englemannii, Englemann Spruce raft I collected two weeks ago in the Jemez mountains of northern New Mexico.

 

[Cable]

Ohio Buckeye (Aesculus glabra). Collected by me March of this year in northern Ohio.

 

[Craigm]

Fresh from the field at Sunrise ,Melaleuca preissiana

 

[M. Frary]

I finally caught one!
A real live Yamadori!
If it lives it's got a little potential.

 

[bonsaichile]

My lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta, that I collected 3 weeks ago in the Colorado Rockies. Hopefully, it will make it. I has a nice spiraling shari all along the trunk

 

[M. Frary]

My lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta, that I collected 3 weeks ago in the Colorado Rockies. Hopefully, it will make it. I has a nice spiraling shari all along the trunkView attachment 193537View attachment 193538View attachment 193539View attachment 193537View attachment 193538View attachment 193539

Very nice!

 

[Rjoyce]

I dug up a red maple from the woods in my back yard about a month ago and it's still green. If it survives it will be my biggest tree by far and therefor might be large enough for the leaves to be in scale!



I started a thread for this tree here: Collected Red Maple

 

[W3rk]

Posted elsewhere on the initial collection, but here's an American Hornbeam that's about 2 months in or so. It was a bit slower to leaf out than most of our native ones, but it's fully leafed out now and there are a number of backbuds that have popped. I know I should have trunk chopped lower on collection but I wanted to keep some of the few branches it had to ensure a strong recovery after collection. In the future the plan will be a much lower cut, but so far so good.

 

[Nicholas Box]

A couple Ponderosas I collected last month. Easily the quickest and most complete root balls I've collected from the mountains thus far. They were both in an area that had been recently cut down for lumber and basically fell into my bags. Glamour shots in the future if they survive. Small one is pretty out of focus.

 

[Nicholas Box]

Better shot of the smaller one.

 

[Dladzinski99]

Posted elsewhere on the initial collection, but here's an American Hornbeam that's about 2 months in or so. It was a bit slower to leaf out than most of our native ones, but it's fully leafed out now and there are a number of backbuds that have popped. I know I should have trunk chopped lower on collection but I wanted to keep some of the few branches it had to ensure a strong recovery after collection. In the future the plan will be a much lower cut, but so far so good.
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Any advice on collected American Hornbeams? I’ve read they are slow to root. I’m currently experimenting and I have an air layer on a substantial tree. I’m hoping it work but the research I’ve done makes me think it’s not going to work to well.

 

[W3rk]

Any advice on collected American Hornbeams? I’ve read they are slow to root. I’m currently experimenting and I have an air layer on a substantial tree. I’m hoping it work but the research I’ve done makes me think it’s not going to work to well.

I'm pretty new to all of this but I can share some of the resources I used. Check out Tony Tickle for Yamadori/collecting. There are some basics with deciduous that apply also. I collected this tree late winter/early spring. The new buds had swelled a little but were not close to unfolding yet. Collecting deciduous that time of year means that the tree should have good stored energy for recovery. Normally most people will cut them back harder than I did. I left a larger root mass in part because I really wanted to ensure having finer roots and a head start on recovery.

I can't speak much to airlayering (I just started my first on a crab apple a few weeks ago). My initial research it seemed hornbeam would not air layer, but there's certainly a chance. I did find a video from Jason Schley about air layering a hornbeam. Others on this forum might know from experience.

 

[Josh88]

Here are a few from this weekend’s hunt...
First up is a mountain hemlock.
Second we have a lodgepole pine.
And then a subalpine fir.
I feel like I nailed this parenting thing watching the kids play in their back yard water park while I got some headway made on potting these up.
Not great pics of the trees but I will document them more thoroughly once I see some growth.

 

[Nicholas Box]

Here are a few from this weekend’s hunt...
First up is a mountain hemlock.
Second we have a lodgepole pine.
And then a subalpine fir.
I feel like I nailed this parenting thing watching the kids play in their back yard water park while I got some headway made on potting these up.
Not great pics of the trees but I will document them more thoroughly once I see some growth.

Really great finds. That's so awesome.

 

[Nwaite]

Root over rock willow

Honeysuckle ... I have 3 or 4 others to pot up still

Hawthorne- not sure what to do with it yet , but it's got a nice base.

Another willow with some cool dead wood.

 

[Dladzinski99]

A couple Ponderosas I collected last month. Easily the quickest and most complete root balls I've collected from the mountains thus far. They were both in an area that had been recently cut down for lumber and basically fell into my bags. Glamour shots in the future if they survive. Small one is pretty out of focus.


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I’ve seen full grown ponderosas in New Mexico and the bark smelled like butterscotch. Do yours happen to smell like that haha?

 

[Nicholas Box]

I’ve seen full grown ponderosas in New Mexico and the bark smelled like butterscotch. Do yours happen to smell like that haha?

Yeah, butterscotch, vanilla....moreso when you're among the big ones.