I have pines in the ground that I was training to send
my son through college, (he is 33 and finished with
schooling. This project has been going on for 20 to
25 years). I was a beginner when I started this
project. It has been an interesting learning
experience. My successes and failures have all been
by trial and error.
I started with 2 year old bare root seedlings, cut
part of the tap root and just stuck them in the
ground. I fed randomly.
My pines are in clay soil that was well augmented to
be a vegtable garden, but I water with grey water ane
the ground has settled. The trees are not all
healthy.
When I cut back to needles without an internode below,
I get guaranteed die off. There is wonderful nebari
on these trees in the ground. I am thinking of
starting to dig them up, pot them for a coule of
years, and perhaps again augment the growing area,
dump the grey water elsewhere and see how it goes.
.....in my spare time between working full time and
also doing other arts.
Kitsune Miko
--- "Isom, Jeff (EM, PTL)"
wrote:
Hopefully Brent or someone else with actual
experience will answer this (or
correct me so that I don't kill a branch this
spring)....
My understanding is that you can cut a healthy pine
at ^b. As long as there
are green needles remaining, the branch can be cut
and will produce buds -
there is always the hope (possibility) that you will
get some dormant buds
to pop in the ^c area as well.
Jeff Isom
Cleveland, OH / Sunset Zone 39
snip
---*----*----*
^c ^b ^a
OK if the above is a pine branch and you are reading
right to left, with the right * being the tip, can
you
cut only before the second node (represented by the
*
and ^a )or can you actually cut at ^b if you have
needles below? I take it that cutting at ^c
probably
will kill the branch unless there were needles below
that.
Kitsune Miko
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