Just wanted to follow-up...

Thanks again to everyone for the advice/suggestions. The rain
held off long
enough Friday for me to get out for several hours. I have to
say, I was
very disappointed though. I'm not finished yet, but almost all
of the the
really nice looking trees that were small enough to carry ended
up being
large "suckers" with practically no independant root system to
speak of. If
I had more time, I'd probably try air-layering a bunch of
stuff; but they
are already in there with chain saws and bull-dozers...


You can treat a "sucker" (especially if there are a few roots)
like you would a cutting and often have some success. Trees that
sucker are, almost by definition, filled with the "will to live."

Unfortunately, trees that sucker also seem to be trees with
coarse branching and large internodes (except, perhaps, for
Prunus and Fagus).

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
David Thoreau - Walden

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