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Post by coppice on Dec 6, 2015 15:01:38 GMT -5
Um thats bittersweet not grape.
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Post by coppice on Nov 18, 2015 16:53:44 GMT -5
Castenea, your chestnuts arrived today. Thank you!
Last year some of your nuts went directly to field in the spring. A few went into a big paper-white pan and I grew them out on my porch. They went to field last week.
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Post by coppice on Nov 12, 2015 13:30:56 GMT -5
Hm I've done grape cuttings years ago. The SIC (sapling-in-chief) is thinking about making balsamic vinegar. This thread is the first mention that labrusca is hearty on OH. is trebbiano also? Also the Google search monster isn't turning up much to shop from... Post script: "Labrusca" riverside grape is not "Lambrusco", *Bing*, well lets see who replies. Maybe there is a way out of all this fudge yet.
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Post by coppice on Nov 5, 2015 9:14:30 GMT -5
Castenea, everybody (else's) chestnuts have gone to sleep but yours. I am having my daughter hold off transplanting them to field due to them being awake. Am I just being over protective?
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Post by coppice on Oct 5, 2015 18:07:24 GMT -5
I don't walk very good. I don't know what genes mine are equipped with. They are Georgian tubers. I prolly should'a googled what the vine looks like before going back down into the gully I planted that winrow in. It looks like this years tubers put out at least some vines. I did not see any bean-pods. Hope springs eternal.
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Post by coppice on Jul 9, 2015 10:24:44 GMT -5
You could use a hoop-house. Let them trail on straw or mulch in house.
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Post by coppice on Jun 27, 2015 10:29:58 GMT -5
More than a month has passed, and other than a recruiting note (to join the board, which is not an option for me) I have heard nothing.
I see no route to contribute. Is this group even remotely functional at all?
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Post by coppice on Jun 24, 2015 6:27:19 GMT -5
Most everything is a first (or second) year sapling. Tho I am getting scolded because the chestnut and pecan are not growing bigger.
I told the Sapling-In-Chief that the first couple years the feet grow first on nut trees.
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Post by coppice on May 18, 2015 11:45:34 GMT -5
I have registered. More as I get more info.
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Post by coppice on Apr 23, 2015 4:09:14 GMT -5
Al, pawpaw never tolerated their roots being handled when I tried bonsai training them. YMMV
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Post by coppice on Apr 19, 2015 7:38:33 GMT -5
My package arrived Saturday. Most are going to SIC's campground. I held back a few to plant to pans and they (that germinate) will go to who ever has fewest saplings (either Stacked Stones, or Wisteria).
It has been above frost day and night for two weeks, the usual plant out is May 15th here abouts.
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Post by coppice on Apr 7, 2015 15:19:22 GMT -5
Grape in trees might be natural, but it will pull trees down in time, and it only feeds birds.
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Post by coppice on Mar 15, 2015 11:24:36 GMT -5
Reed crab apple and Japan maple (as bonsai) talk to me. I have however kept grape in pots that were propagated for both arbor and bonsai.
You are welcome to run your own learning curve. I found that the deal with woody plant in pots--particularly in shallow pots, that the rubber hits the road as how well soil admits air, and not how well soil holds water.
Some bonsai hobbyists use no organic material at all. Preffering instead to water more often and supply all fertilizer as liquid spray on.
The ideal time to root prune and repot is spring.
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Post by coppice on Mar 14, 2015 14:18:02 GMT -5
I use 1/2 gran-i-grit* and 1/2 pine bark mulch with about 1 tablespoon of osmocoat per 10 gallons of soil.
Sand and bark mulch will also work. I would not use organic fines like compost or loess in a pot with woody plants who might live a long time in pots.
* gran-i-grit is a poultry scratch
If you have them in pots and they have grown roots out the bottom, you may need to pot up the next year.
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Post by coppice on Mar 11, 2015 10:01:35 GMT -5
I broadcast some chinkapin and chestnuts last fall. Today I set the last I had refridgerated into germinating pans planted just over one nut deep with a thick grass clipping mulch and nested rim deep into garden bed.
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