I feel that I must speak up here. There has been alot of misinformation here lately. So much that it seems to be a free for all.
Just type a essay and you will get the Joanies; fantstic article Will
Bonsai greenhorn, wonderful article and so on and so fourth. You praise this stuff and have no idea if it will even work for you. You do not question it, you just accept it for face value. You folks may get irrate over the way I question things around here, but if someone posts something that is just plain dangerous I'm going to speak up. It ain't going to be sugar coated either. If Will told you guys to march off the cliff would you question that or just yell Geronomo!
The information while working for Will in his micro climate is not a thing that should be practised carte blanch.
Joanie has mentioned a penchant for wanting a collected Cal. juniper. It's collected and so I can just follow the wonderful article posted by Will. He is having so much success with this method it must surly work for me.
WRONG with a capital W. Seek the advice of people in your locale. What works for Will will certainly not work for everyone. In fact the information he posts will probably not work for the majority of the posters here under all the probable curcumstances that can arise.
Will's article contains information based on very young looking plants. I would also venture to say that he digs these in rather rich growing conditions and gathers a fairly compact root system. I have posted the pictures of the root systems I have collected in my many searches and successes with Cal. Juniper. I am lucky to have a hand full of roots on a tree well over three hundred years old. It's collected, that makes it fair game for the recipe that Will suggests? All I can say is Joanie, do not follow this advice on a juniper from the desert. They are to precious to burn up on fish emulsion on dig day.
Any thought from you collectors out there?
BTW, I have not even vented about hurricane styled trees yet. We'll save that for when the thread slows down.
Al