I did a talk for our local club on bonsai Winter care, in between nervous, sputtering and stammering, to make to point of not watering while root ball is frozen. I asked them to visualize a glass full of ice cubes then visualize pouring water or other adult beverage in it. What do you hear? Crack, Crack, Pop, Crack, pop,maybe, phisss, then I asked them, do you think it is a good idea to water your trees when frozen?

Thought I would pass along, I don't come up with clever tidbits often.

Doug T.

WMass Zone 5



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Subject: [IBC] Frozen pots and watering.


Never water a tree when the temp autside is near freezing ( but you
did not realize )..
if your trees are taken by ice do not thaw them it only kills them !

leave them until untaw by tehmselves , and never take them inside the
house with warmer temperatures

Mike Waterhouse wrote:

Thanks Pauline. I had been going with the same setup as you for the past
fifteen years and it worked fine until last year when I was attacked by rodents
that wiped out all my tridents and hornbeams and many of my Japanese Maples.
Thanks.

Mike Waterhouse
Litchfield, Maine
Zone 4b

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