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Originally Posted by treekutter
Here is the area where my growing grounds will be.
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Please do not think of me as flipant, but you need a tractor.
Will: I would be interested in knowing how many years this material has been in the ground and how often it has been root pruned. If it has been in more than 4 years you have a field of yamadori with all of the transfering problems that collecting yamadori presents. Not necessairly a bad thing.
For ten years I had access to exelent growing grounds and had a lot of fun and a lot of work. At this point in time I am forced to grow above grounds.
As I move through this material I will try to provide decent pictures of what I am trying to do and what I expect to see as results. My goal is to help young bonsai artests understand growing techniques in a limited space. How to increase health and vigor and decrease recovery time on material collected from the field. I have the ability to take pictures but am finding that I have gremlins in my picture it publish it soft ware so it may be a while befor I can post pictures. Promis I will work on it as best as I can. My best days to publish material will be Mondays and Thursdays for now. I will ask all of you to be mindfull of the areia that I am in. (central California) Many of you will have to make adjustments for your own environment. Also sence I was last posting to this forum I have gone over to soil mixtures that have no organics at all. I am not expecting you to change but if you follow any of the experiments that I lay out you should try to use the same soil mixtures that I am using. If you then wish to duplicat these techniques in in other soil mixtures it will help all of us to understand which mixtures work best in diffrent environments. It all sounds like fun to me. I will start with soils and seed beds on Thursday. How I store seeds and techniques for germination. I will discuss pines maples and oaks.
Glenn Van Winnkle