thanks for the input ..

i'll let y'all know how it goes!

"Craig Cowing" wrote in message
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Terry Smith wrote:

"Mike Bunnell" wrote in news:ci4mb.74992
$La.16802@fed1read02:

A coworker has offered two large (maybe 10-inch diameter trunk)
bougainvillea -- all I have to do is dig them up.

Anyone have any tips or suggestions?

From my experiences, you can probably do no wrong as long as
you get some decent roots.

In November '01, Thanksgiving weekend, I collected a fairly
large bougainvilla that my father had grown in Daytona,
Florida.

The plant was taken to Massachusetts and grown under lights
the first winter. It has thrived since then, and has been cut
down to a small tree while developing new branches.

Collecting Details:

The plant was 6' high, the trunk was about 3" to 4" diameter.

I cut the plant down to about 3 feet tall, and dug out the
rootball to about 20" in diameter, maybe 9" deep. When I
cut the height down, I was careful to make sure some leaves
were retained on each stalk.

snip

The plant was about 1 foot high by summer, and was repotted
into Turface mix in warm weather. The two summers since
collecting have been used to begin new branching. The
tree will be a spreading, deciduous-style beast.

Good luck in your collecting.


Terry:
Is this where the bougie cutting you gave me last year came from? It's
doing well,
now with a 3/4" trunk, pushing a half inch, and is developing nicely into
a
semi-cascade tree!

Craig Cowing
NY
zone 5b/6a Sunset 37


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