Malaleuca/tea tree

[alpineart]

Awesome find, AA!

Not knowing nearly as much as I should about collecting Native Yamadori, all I can do is urge you to make sure the little tree has good drainage and is watered frequently while it settles in. I have some info that points towards this, and will post tomorrow AM. (According to Dot Koreshoff, the most important thing to a native plant after repotting is the ability to get air to the roots - possibly moreso after wild collection. From memory, that is.)

Thanks and good luck!

Fly.

All good Fly . I need one more book on natives ,as if a bloke needs another but Hey if your "gonna do it ya need it ". Cheers

[Pup]

Alpineart I have been though my Leptospermums. It is definitely not one of them.
By your discription of the bigger ones in the area I would go for the M, ericifolia.

Glad to be of help Pup

[FlyBri]

Awesome find, AA!

Not knowing nearly as much as I should about collecting Native Yamadori, all I can do is urge you to make sure the little tree has good drainage and is watered frequently while it settles in. I have some info that points towards this, and will post tomorrow AM. (According to Dot Koreshoff, the most important thing to a native plant after repotting is the ability to get air to the roots - possibly moreso after wild collection. From memory, that is.)

Thanks and good luck!

Fly.

All good Fly . I need one more book on natives ,as if a bloke needs another but Hey if your "gonna do it ya need it ". Cheers

Morning AA & Co!

I've found the passage I mentioned last night. In it, Dorothy Koreshoff refers to the after care of collected/newly repotted native species:

...despite any particular condition that prevailed in the original habitat, the requirements change when grown (in any type of container) above the ground. Thus horticulture becomes simplified, basically, if one ensure that:

(a) air is able to reach the roots at night; and

(b) there is free, not locked water (some water is held too tightly by fine particles to be of use) which is able to be absorbed by the roots during the day. This helps translocate the nutrients up to the foliage to be changed by the sunlight into food.

Poorly draining mixes impair the passage of water, thus excluding air sufficiently which may be the means of smothering the plant...

I have further elaborated on this info in this thread about Inert Growing Medium. Since posting in that thread, the only thing I might change is the proportion of chopped sphagnum, which I would probably reduce by ⅓ to ½.

Hope this helps.

Fly.

[alpineart]

Thanks fly i have lost several tea tree/ Malelueca's in the past and never bothered again .I noted the position where i found the little bugger and need to retrieve some Trident seeds for some members so i will take a gander to see if there is any others lurking /pleading for me to liberate them from further hardship . I did notice the presence of charcoal under most plants including the little pines .Potash from the charcoal works a treat under Pinus Nigra i have been using it for years ,i just dont tell people .Cheers

[MelaQuin]

Nice start but to me the pot is too heavy for the tree and is overwhelming it. I'd be leaving the tree to settle for the year while looking for a smaller pot where domination swings to the tree's side, not the pot's. Pat Kennedy's shohin pots could offer an option. I 'feel it' in an oval pot, slightly rugged texture and up a bit on a small mound. That way the tree is lording it over its surrounds and not looking as tho it is slinking across the terrain looking for a place to hide.

[alpineart]

[quote="MelaQuin"]Nice start but to me the pot is too heavy for the tree and is overwhelming it. I'd be leaving the tree to settle for the year while looking for a smaller pot where domination swings to the tree's side, not the pot's. Pat Kennedy's shohin pots could offer an option. I 'feel it' in an oval pot, slightly rugged texture and up a bit on a small mound. That way the tree is lording it over its surrounds and not looking as tho it is slinking across the terrain looking for a place to hide.[/quote

Yes i would have to agree with your comments but its the only pot i had apart from several hundred plastic nursery pots . so there it will remain until i figure out how to grow natives in little pots as i do fail quite a lot with natives .Pines are a different matter i treat them mean and they grow well .Cheers

[alpineart]

Alpineart I have been though my Leptospermums. It is definitely not one of them.
By your discription of the bigger ones in the area I would go for the M, ericifolia.

Glad to be of help Pup

Thanks Pup i'm searching asap . Cheers