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Post by tomc on May 31, 2007 15:11:28 GMT -5
Every couple years I disremember how much mame are a study in perfect watering. Today was another rainy day and when I looked around I had put twenty odd little trees into 'fits into the palm of your hand' size pots.
Oh well maybe this time...
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Post by tomc on Jun 4, 2007 20:21:10 GMT -5
Today was rainy, dropping branches and leaf pruning got done under the ramada.
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Post by tomc on Jun 7, 2007 23:40:23 GMT -5
Mame (or) more than one fits in the palm of your hand, is a study in perfect watering. In July & August that could mean as many as 8 drinks per day.
Malls sell this sized pot usually fitted out with a dead (but still green) Juniper glued to its soil around yule. Several big box stores are equally guilty of this fraud. All-in-all its a good deal for me cause people take the dead mallsai home and finish the execution of yet another juniper by frying what ever green reamained out of the twig by setting on top of their TV.
Several weeks later they write to GW on how to resurect their now fully cooked stick. They give up. Still another bonsai pot goes to the transfer station to be added to my collection.
The pots build up on a shelf till I forget how hard I have to work at watering them adaquately. A-n-d I have built up a stock of suitable woodies to stuff into all those little pots on the top shelf.
Oh and I forget how many of this smallest size tree I've killed already. Did I say that already?
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Post by tomc on Nov 26, 2007 19:47:13 GMT -5
All of the tender (teenie) trees are nestled in a light box next to my bed, t'others are slumbering out in the cold frame. This year went pretty good, with only a couple casualties all in the very smallest sizes.
I dug 4 crabs and 4 pear, all tolerated a drastic down sizing from 2-4" thick (10-15' tall) saplings to 2 foot tall 'stumps' in 3 gallon pots. All should loaf in that size pot for a year or two as I style 'em before getting down-sized at the feet again.
If I get any more facile at this people are gonna think I know what I'm doing.
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Post by tomc on May 7, 2008 19:10:09 GMT -5
Today I repotted a few of last years mame (more'n one fits in the palm of your hand) and all the Japanese azalea Bunny & I bought at wally werld.
WW is one of the primary fellons for selling pre-cooked (with a glue gun) malsai. This year their selling a tender azalea as a landscape (ie dies at 30ºF) for zone 4/5. We knew they had no hope as landscapes but might find a haven in our light boxes over a frsoty new england winter.
Wish out new aditions well. Few enough of their kin will live to see yule.
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Post by tomc on May 8, 2008 19:09:20 GMT -5
Todays labor was to finish repotting the last of the hearty azalea, crab apples and start a first bald cypress. Now none a these are mame, most are pretty hunky two hand bonsai.
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Post by tomc on May 9, 2008 18:36:09 GMT -5
I re-sawed the bald cypress stump today. Leaving little more than a a lance shaped stump abover the root-flare (nebari?).
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Post by tomc on May 21, 2008 11:38:11 GMT -5
Celtis (Hackberry) went into new dirt today. Now all I have to do is remember to snip all the (remaining) leaves in about 3 weeks.
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