Rocky Mountain collecting #2

BrianBay9

And here are a few of the larger trees that are doing well....

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ficusfanatic

i love #559269. beautiful trees. 59267 is a bit odd was that growing at that angle? looks like it was horizontal before.

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itchybird

Do you have any pictures that show the roots after collection? Curious to see the root volume immediately following collection.

Your mix looks very porous and is that a simple mesh bottom on the bottoms of the grow boxes you built?

How about your climate, is it similar to the area where you collected?

thanks, Rich

PatArizona

Nice trees there Brian...take good care of them...

Pat

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BrianBay9

Thanks Chris. That one may be the pick of the litter. It's growing vigorously, and the root system is only about 3 inches deep as collected. The odd one had a dead top that I had to cut off to fit in the SUV. It has essentially one live "witches broom" of a branch that curls out on the side there. It looks straight in the pic, but it's all twisted up.

Rich, I don't have pics of the roots, sorry. The mix is very coarse - decomposed granite, turface and pine bark, about equal parts of each. Some of the grow boxes have mesh bottoms. Others have slats of wood with gaps between. Regarding climate, these were collected about 50 miles from my house. The biggest difference is that they came from about 9,000 feet elevation, and I live at about 5,000. I'll have to give them some protection from the heat this summer, I expect.

Brian

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Sors

I've had a lot of fun going on trips up to the mountains here. I went with a friend a few weeks ago up around Boulder. she apparently has had some problems with her lodge pole pines. I'm guessing the problem might be elevation (Boulder isn't tree line) but I've done alright here at 8000 feet. I'm assuming if your in Loveland you'll be alright too.

I'm hoping soon to go on an aspen collecting trip, but I'm going to experiment on the ones in my back yard first.

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valenwood

I also live in Colorado, Boulder in fact. I was also planning on making some excursions into the woods to collect specimens, but I was just going to dig em up and take them back. How did you work the $10/tree thing, who was alerted and what paperwork is required? I'd rather pay the $10 then get stuck with some huge fine.