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23-Apr-2008
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baldguy
Join Date: Jan-2006
Location: Pine Ridge, SD
Country: USA
USDA Zone: 2cold
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Not vigorous,
OBSCENELY VIGOROUS! I have a landscape planting made from elms that were collected from a gravel parking lot. They had been driven over, stomped on, and mowed down for YEARS. They are thriving, and grow so quickly that I did three total defoliations last year and finished the season with teeeny leaves for my teeeny little forest.
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23-Apr-2008
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baldguy
Join Date: Jan-2006
Location: Pine Ridge, SD
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If I was going to bother with that tree, I would:
Take a pickaxe and handsaw Collect as much of the root as I could get Whack off the trunk at the red line Wrap the roots in a damp towel and plastic bag until I got home Put it in the smallest grow-box it that could accomodate the roots with a simple mix of fired clay and shredded peat moss Water it well with willow water or an aspirin Leave it entirely alone for at least a year
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23-Apr-2008
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bonsaiTALK Artisan
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I am sorry, but the virtual looks like a finger with a nail in it.
 In all seriousness, I can see that it will make a great cascade or semicascade. |
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24-Apr-2008
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bonsaiTALK Master Chief
 
Join Date: Sep-2003
Location: Amstelveen
Country: Netherlands
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The existing roots would ALL have to go to achieve what you project here. As an experiment you might try an in-situ ground layer. By that I mean ground layer the trunk off of the sucker while it's still attached to the sucker. You basicaly need to take a largish plastic plant pot filled with soil (that won't dry out too quick either...) and cut the top layers of bark off the trunk near the join with the sucker - in the hope that you could get it to root into the plant pot. Maybe I'm making this too hard, you could just make some deep horizontal slits in the bark near the sucker, bit of rooting powder and heap a whole load of soil over the base. AND chop the trunk already by the first branch.
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