Juniper air Layer instead of collect??

bonsaial1

Greg, Here's the 2007 update on the manzanita. It seems to being doing quite well but could use some training as it is getting bushy. I wonder if the owner may be a little gun shy about pruning it?

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gregb

Thanks for posting this, Al. It looks to me as though there is some die-back of the branches. Tom mentioned to me that he has problems with squirrels feeding on the buds. I think Tom's interest in this tree was to show that keeping manzanita alive in a pot in CA was indeed possible. There are many in CA that refuse to believe it because they have failed with it themselves. For the record, I collected this tree in Oct. of 2002, it went into the pot sometime late 2003/early 2004 and is still doing well now in 2007.

There is nothing wrong with taking it slow, but I agree with you that some styling could be done. Was there any wire on the tree? I have a branch from this tree that was ground-layering at the time I collected it which I have and I have begun styling with wire. New growth can be wired in the fall after the branch has hardened off enough to apply wire. In the case of Tom's tree, some very light pruning for shape could be done. Maybe I'll rattle his chain and find out how he's been doing

gregb

Stavros--sorry you are disappointed by our behavior. In the process of reaching an understanding, these discussions can get pretty messy. Sometimes an agreement is reached and other times we eventually agree to disagree and that's the end of it. You still got the best advice I could give you for next to nothing. And I guess I should unpack my suitcase since I still haven't got that plane ticket