In a 'claft' style (Hal Mahoney's specialty), I was wondering if the
individual branches of the Junipers (that are wired up to look like trees)
will eventually form their own roots and actually become their own tree with
time. Does anyone have experience with that?
Les Lonsdale

PS: I found the Minwax Woodhardener at the Home Depot in Tallahassee!!
Thanks for the advice.

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5 to 10 years would be a good estimate.
Marty
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In a 'claft' style (Hal Mahoney's specialty), I was wondering if the
individual branches of the Junipers (that are wired up to look like trees)
will eventually form their own roots and actually become their own tree
with
time. Does anyone have experience with that?
Les Lonsdale

PS: I found the Minwax Woodhardener at the Home Depot in Tallahassee!!
Thanks for the advice.


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In a 'claft' style (Hal Mahoney's specialty), I was wondering
if the
individual branches of the Junipers (that are wired up to look
like trees)
will eventually form their own roots and actually become their
own tree with
time. Does anyone have experience with that?
Les Lonsdale

PS: I found the Minwax Woodhardener at the Home Depot in
Tallahassee!!
Thanks for the advice.

IF you put rooting hormone on the stubs of any branches you cut
off, you may get roots in your lifetime. Otherwise, juniper
(conifers) aren't know for easy ground layering -- or _I_ don't
know them for that. I suppose they could, eventually.

I've only "known" two clefts; neither of them was mine, but both
died over the course of 3-4 years.

Hal doesn't do e-mail, or I'd suggest you ask him. Marty

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In a 'claft' style (Hal Mahoney's specialty), I was wondering
if the
individual branches of the Junipers (that are wired up to look
like trees)
will eventually form their own roots and actually become their
own tree with
time. Does anyone have experience with that?
Les Lonsdale


Conifers in general aren't known for their ability to ground
layer (which is what you're asking a claft-style display to do).
If you happened to put rooting hormone on the stubs of any
branches you cut off on the underside of the tree(s) you'd get
roots (maybe). Otherwise . . .

I don't think Hal has e-mail.

I seem to recall that Marty H is a neighbor when Hal is up north
.. . .

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman

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I have seen some of the prostrate (ground hugging) junipers roots their
lower branches in a year or two with no special attention. Since junipers
are commercially grown from cuttings, I would think that scoring the buried
branch a bit and possibly embedding it in a small (1 cm or less) amount of
long fibered sphagnum moss would give roots in a year or two for most
junipers.

Marty

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