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Join Date: Jan-2004
Location: Ottawa, KS
Country: USA
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Trees I Never Should Have Collected
The time has come to 'fess up. My collected trees were all done before I knew much of anything about bonsai. Here's a Scots pine I collected from a condemned Xmas tree farm. I brought it home in 1998 and put it in a growing bed with 4 brothers. It's the only one still alive. When I potted it up in April 2005, I found that all its roots came out one side. Actually, I should say that half of them folded under the base and came out the opposite side. By that time I had learned a couple things about root work, so I removed the bad ones, cut back the good ones, and cut windows in the bark on the side without roots, added hormone powder and potted it up.
This tree is about 42 inches tall and my heaviest. I was on the verge of just making it into a garden tree, but I'm not so sure.
Does anyone else have trees they maybe wish they hadn't collected or wish they'd known then what they know now?
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Chris Johnston
"She was a critic, and lots fo critics who aren't called to do what they write about grow jealous and mean and small in their disappointment." - Stephen King, Duma Key
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