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[Calnicky]

My 3-yr-old granddaughter decided it was time she started helping with the pruning.



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Can't wait for my granddaughter to start helping out with the trees. She's only 16 months, so will be a while yet. Want her to be fully invested otherwise I'll have to leave them to the club when I'm too old or too croaked to deal with them.

 

[Deleted member 47471]

Repotted Some Trees to further Development for 2024:









Not all trees were repotted since moderate to heavy work was performed in 2023 on some of them. I still intend to pot the Hinoki Cypress, and a Blue Atlas Cedar arrives in March which may go into an Anderson Flat as well.

From here, the goal is simple: proper horticulture and excellent health to grow and develop. Happy growing!

 

[PowerTap]

Would I be doing great injury to the tree to take it back out prune roots down and get it lower? I'm not sure how to go about a multi-session report for time crunched hobbiests.

Picture of where I want said tree to go.

After getting some useful feedback that I shouldn't have left so many roots exposed I improvised a tray extension. When I bought these trays of Amazon, some of them arrived broken, which is annoying, but it meant that I had some raw material. I cut the base out of one, flipped it over, wired it together and added some more soil. The result looks a little bit like a litter box, which is unfortunate, but the tree will be happier.

Cracked tray:



Flipped over and wired together:


Add some soil:

 

[Deleted member 47471]

Can't wait for my granddaughter to start helping out with the trees. She's only 16 months, so will be a while yet. Want her to be fully invested otherwise I'll have to leave them to the club when I'm too old or too croaked to deal with them.

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What a cutie (pic attached because of the rule):

 

[Cadillactaste]

Moved this scarred trunk from a grass torch... Japanese maple to a Dan Barton pot.

 

[leatherback]

Packed up my new substrate stash..


125 gallons ordered.
seems like I received 150 gallons
Leftover ~20% after filling my 125 gallon containers...

 

[19Mateo83]

I did some severe pruning to get my sisters quinnie bell peach tree back under control, trimmed her pin oak out from under the power lines and chopped back her mulberry tree. I’m set myself up for a nice air layer on the mulberry in the future

 

[chansen]

Ok... I didn't do this today. It was over the weekend. Repotted this chojubai into a nakawatari pot. The tree needs a haircut, but I'll wait a bit on that. I didn't have to take off too many roots, but I still want to play it safe.

 

[JRidge]

Repotted collected hemlock. Has had one previous session of root work to reduce a thick root with lots of purpose.. I hope it develops well over the next few years.
I think this is a mountain hemlock but could be some hybrid mountain/western. Foliage doesn’t scream either at me.

 

[leatherback]

Small leaf lilac repotting today..

 

[SilverCeder]

repotted an American Hornbeam

 

[leus]

Took a pottery class. Things are wobbly, looks way easier in YouTube

 

[Ruddigger]

I made a box and repotted this Itoigawa that I bought at last years GSBF Rendezvous. It was one that was styled in the Rising Stars competition. It’s gonna need to regrow some branches that were hacked off.

 

[leatherback]

That is a BIG box!

 

[Ruddigger]

That is a BIG box!

Its segmented inside, so its not completely full of soil, but I can open it up later as needed.

 

[Wood]

I'm jealous of the Nao pot-mug

 

[leatherback]

Drove 3 hours to start shooting a video of the bonsai trophy

 

[Deleted member 47471]

Pulled Hinoki Cypress out of ground
Repotted into Anderson Flat, pruned moderately, wired some, and hoping it does not completely die on me. If anything I got some practice in on many tasks:




I did not bare root the tree upon repotting but removed a considerable amount of the dense clay from the root ball. I also left some paralleled branching near the base—in case it survives—to thicken the trunk as it’s too narrow as it ascends.

Should I prune more foliage and add more wire to open up the branches and let light in? I’m exhausted by now and I think my wife gave me her virus.

 

[Deleted member 47471]

Group photo after all the work

 

[Faisal Ahmad]

Moved this scarred trunk from a grass torch... Japanese maple to a Dan Barton pot.
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Do you using app for put black background?