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Adam

You got some nice seedlings. Plant them in the ground for a while.

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kvnharv29

You grow these from seed?

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imyerhukleberry

I did not grow these trees. I recieved them in the mail today from a grower that is in the Sierra Nevada here in California. I did just start some redwood seeds on the 1st of this month though. We'll see how they do. I also put some in the fridge and I'll wait till about mid February to break them out. Maybe a lil' sooner depending on what the winter here is like this year.

bonsaial1

These look like USDF plugs. I remember planting these by the thousands when I was in the eighth grade one summer. They had a contraption that was a long tube, about 10 or 12 feet high. They would load up about 15 plants in it and send you out in the field to plant. Just place end where you want a tree, step real hard on the shovel end, and pull the trigger. The plant would be dispensed in the whole. Push the earth around with your foot and firm up.

Once you get the hang of it, you could plant about a hundred per hour. Thats with telling dirty stories and jokes and shooting spitwads at your buddies. Think how many we could have planted if we had really applied ourselves.

If these things really grab hold, you may need a very big pot!

Fireproof too, good for So. Cal.

/|\ Al

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imyerhukleberry

They are fire proof. I'll have to set one on fire to get the "natural" look. (baaaad bad joke, sorry). But really, those old logged stumps the size of bulldozers were very very interesting to all of us as kids. Miracuously new trees grew right out the top of the stumps.




Al,

These plugs are plastic. The plugs you planted must have been paper right? Don't think a tree would last too long in one of these things, those trees were pretty dang root-bound when I took them out today.

imyerhukleberry

What should I feed these things? Evergreen tree food?

laen ssor

I had 3 Giant Sequoia trees that I finally gave up on after 4 years. The branches would grow out to about 10 inches and then the tips would start turning brown then work back until the entire branch had died off. New buds would break from the trunk and the process would start all over again. The crown was growing vigorously but the lower branches would not stay alive. I was fertilizing on the same schedule as all my other trees and they suffered no ill effects. When I finally pulled them to toss into the compost pile the roots were healthy and vigorous. I could not figure out what was going on so I posted a message on the other forum concerning this and recieved a reply from Brent Walston and he said he gave up on them also after running in to the same problem. Hopefully since you are in So Cal you will not run into the same problems I had with them in Nor Cal.

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imyerhukleberry

Laen,

That's interesting to hear. N. Ca is the tree's natural habitat.

When your branches began dieing off were the trees in bonsai pots? How old were the trees? 4 year olds? Were the branches woody, or still green, and were they pruined or trained at all?


I was looking at pictures here in the members posts and happened across TreeBay's Sequoia forest planting. I wonder how those trees are?