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[IBC] Juniper rescue
On Mon, 10 May 2004 15:27:46 -0700, you wrote:
Pray. ....and when you have them out, give them enough time for your prayers to be answered. I might be happier with nearer 50/50 root/foliage, but I'm applying a general rule. Others may know better in this specific case. Richard Kirsune Miko Allen wrote: There's a house near me that's being rennovated and they've given me the old junipers growing on the side. These guys are about 3-4" diameter and stand about 2-3 feet tall. Besides getting all the roots i can, putting them in some sandy, well draining mix, in the shade, foliar feedings, and cutting them back so that i've got a 75% top 25% root proportion .... What other advice can you all give me to give them the best chance possible ? ************************************************* ******************************* ++++Sponsored, in part, by John Quinn++++ ************************************************* ******************************* -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ "Art does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon." Agnes Ropplier (added to the above) "How many things in life do we bludgeon with facts, render helpless with theories, and kill with sermons? If art can help us go beyond these patterns, we certainly need it in our lives." Anne Wilson Schaef From, "Women Who Do Too Much Calandar 2004." ************************************************* ******************************* ++++Sponsored, in part, by John Quinn++++ ************************************************* ******************************* -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by John Quinn++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
[IBC] Juniper rescue
I might be happier with nearer 50/50 root/foliage, but I'm
applying a general rule. Others may know better in this specific case. Richard ========= Roots are MUCH more important than leaves (needles) -- but be sure you _have_ needles!!!!!!! Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by John Quinn++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
[IBC] Juniper rescue
Thanks for all the advice! What about superthrive ?
And how soon do you think i'll know if i was successful? I realize that Junipers stay green and pretty for a while after the roots are gone. |
[IBC] Juniper rescue
Thanks for all the advice! What about superthrive ?
And how soon do you think i'll know if i was successful? I realize that Junipers stay green and pretty for a while after the roots are gone. ============= If you are disastrously not successful, you'll know inside a month, maybe 6 weeks. Otherwise, if it clings stubbornly to life you'll be on tenterhooks through the winter and into spring before you find out whether it decides to make it. I have had late-collected juniper put out new growth the following spring, then decide it took too much stored-up energy to maintain it, and wither away. Superthrive will neither help nor (probably) hurt. Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it should have - Paul Bigelow Sears. ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by John Quinn++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
[IBC] Juniper rescue
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[IBC] Juniper rescue
Allen wrote:
(Jim Lewis) wrote in message If you are disastrously not successful, you'll know inside a month, maybe 6 weeks. Otherwise, if it clings stubbornly to life you'll be on tenterhooks through the winter and into spring before you find out whether it decides to make it. I have had late-collected juniper put out new growth the following spring, then decide it took too much stored-up energy to maintain it, and wither away. Superthrive will neither help nor (probably) hurt. What i really wanted to know was: How soon I can start treating these junipers like junipers and put them in the sun ? I'm not going to do any 'bonsai' work or cause them any further stress until they get some new growth next spring for sure ! I just don't want them to languish in the cooler shade when they need to be junipers. So ... 6 weeks you think ? If it were me I'd wait until I saw new growth, then gradually introduce them to full sun over the course of the next few weeks. Even though they eventually will require full sun, they are not at full strength right now because they've just been collected. Craig Cowing NY Zone 5b/6a Sunset 37 ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by John Quinn++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
[IBC] Juniper rescue
(Jim Lewis) wrote in message
If you are disastrously not successful, you'll know inside a month, maybe 6 weeks. Otherwise, if it clings stubbornly to life you'll be on tenterhooks through the winter and into spring before you find out whether it decides to make it. I have had late-collected juniper put out new growth the following spring, then decide it took too much stored-up energy to maintain it, and wither away. Superthrive will neither help nor (probably) hurt. What i really wanted to know was: How soon I can start treating these junipers like junipers and put them in the sun ? I'm not going to do any 'bonsai' work or cause them any further stress until they get some new growth next spring for sure ! I just don't want them to languish in the cooler shade when they need to be junipers. So ... 6 weeks you think ? Allen . . . _I_ can't answer that definitively because I don't know (or remember) where you are from. If you lived down here, or in the desert southwest or other very-hot-and-sunny locale, I'd tell you that it would be safer to keep them in afternoon shade all summer. Afternoon sun in many parts of the US is very hot and plants tend to transpire rapidly in hot sun. With a poor, just-dug-up, and dug-up-late, root system that could be lethal. Perhaps if you are in the northeast or northwest (maybe even in the northern Midwest???) all-day sun would be OK. Juniper do NOT need full sun all day long -- even healthy junipers. Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it should have - Paul Bigelow Sears. ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by John Quinn++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
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