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Mar 20, 2017 11:46:26 GMT -5
Post by coppice on Mar 20, 2017 11:46:26 GMT -5
I liked this site years ago. I like this site today. It is still dieing a lingering death of neglect of its owner.
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Post by coppice on Jan 23, 2017 11:55:31 GMT -5
Has anybody got peach of this color?
I'd grow some from stones even.
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Post by coppice on Nov 30, 2016 11:09:10 GMT -5
After a bigger quake. I think I would park the car for a while. Or drive real slow. Bridges underpasses could well be hazards.
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Post by coppice on Oct 4, 2016 7:31:55 GMT -5
I go and buy from my local farmers market at least in october. I buy the oldest types of apples I can find. I also buy out all the local nuts. (not that there are all that many of them on offer).
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Post by coppice on Jul 30, 2016 5:55:29 GMT -5
Read up on wintersowing or cold-stratification Jocundi. This is also true for other woody plants. Like pawpaw or prunus.
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Post by coppice on Jun 15, 2016 18:40:05 GMT -5
Can you transplant them? I have dozens trying to take over the garden and would love to send some to my daughter in Nova Scotia but the tap root thing is a bit of a puzzle. They're tough little beasts to try to pull up if they're over about 4 inches tall! If you are in the lower 48, shipping, carrying, mailing, them will be problematic. Customs is going to seize them. if you are on t'other side, you should be able to mail them when they are dormant. I would shake & wash off soil and pack in dampened peat moss. Wrap the roots tightly in saran-wrap. And box them up & off they go.
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Post by coppice on Apr 30, 2016 20:51:09 GMT -5
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Post by coppice on Mar 17, 2016 7:38:48 GMT -5
You need a block of corn, more than one or two rows.
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Post by coppice on Mar 15, 2016 20:13:38 GMT -5
Where is you? it matters. This year more than others. I would have mine sown by now in central NH. I might have sown peppers in Jan.
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Post by coppice on Mar 2, 2016 13:00:06 GMT -5
Size decreases. I had an overlooked bed, that by year three the bulbs were much smaller.
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Post by coppice on Feb 29, 2016 7:22:53 GMT -5
So I know that getting seeds from GRIN is difficult, dubious, and contentious. However, if I was to attempt it for my potato tower breeding experiment, which of the many accessions should I attempt obtaining? There is very little info on any of them, certainly not about their suitability for towers. I might spend some time on Tom Wagners site, and ask of him any unanswered questions you might have. Um, tatermater.com or some such.
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Post by coppice on Feb 16, 2016 6:06:49 GMT -5
A half-barrel will work fine.
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Post by coppice on Feb 15, 2016 14:40:28 GMT -5
Is it possible to limit the size of a grapefruit tree by planting it in a smaller container, say a half gallon drum, or could the roots be pruned somehow, like a modified bonsai? I think if you want fruit, you'll grow it in a bigger than 1/2 gallon pot. Yes you can root prune citrus. Yes citrus is trained as bonsai. Any tree in a tray does best with large drains and very fast draining soil like, (like 1/2 bark mulch and 1/2 grani-grit). Your going to both top and root prune your tree. I expect the leaves will remain too large to be ideal bonsai. But you can keep it to a size that will pass through a door.
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Post by coppice on Jan 23, 2016 14:36:52 GMT -5
Airlayer in spring start with dormant branches. Rooting hormone and a tournequette wire when you have cut back bark.
I bet if you got seedling cherrys to grow, they would be true-enough-to-type to not be making the easy graft worth bothering with.
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Post by coppice on Jan 3, 2016 3:49:30 GMT -5
Seems the USPS has screwed with Sandhill Preservation Project enough that their catalog will now only be on the internet. No hardcopy. www.sandhillpreservation.com/
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