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Awesome fond mate! I think you won the recently collected material section lol. Just beautiful!

Jarrod wrote:Awesome fond mate! I think you won the recently collected material section lol. Just beautiful!

Drooling over the Plum , doing cartwheels over the Hawthorn.Should look the ducks nuts leafed out .Cheers

that is awsome great find great trunk. has it started shooting ???

Chris wrote:that is awsome great find great trunk. has it started shooting ???

Bud swelling now ,just a bit colder in the alps .I have dug these Hawthorns in full leaf and had many successes .Alternatively i have had Hawthorns go dormant for 3 years after digging in winter. I have an oldy bursting now it has been dormant for 2 years , 1 has not moved after 3 years and is still green down to the cambium .They can be extremely stubborn bordering on self preservation and remain dormant for up to 5 years .Cheers

Hi Alpine,
Really nice find -congratulations.
Are you going to nest another 1 or 2 foam boxes to get a raft style happening?
I reckon it will look really nice in a compartively short period of time
Regards
Steve

Great one Alpine. I was thinking a raft was the go as well. It is interesting what you say about collecting the hawthorn. Before starting to collect them this year for the first time I was given mixed advice on how they handled collection. You have me worried now as out of the first two I collected one has started budding and the other hasn't. I have been telling myself it is silly to think it will not bud out. Now you have me worried. It is less than a week behind the other so I won't panic yet
Maybe it is a better idea to collect them just after they start to sprout?

Maybe it is a better idea to collect them just after they start to sprout?[/quote]

Hi Bretts , Sh'"t no they can leaf out and then go dormant pre winter of the following year .If you have the room throw it up the back sooner or later it will fire up .As long as the dont dry out for weeks to months on end they are mighty tough and self preserve like no other .You can paint roundup neat to a trunk and it will re shoot at the base .Burn them to the ground and they will reshoot 2 to 10 feet away at a health root.Throw them out when they go brown at the cambium .Cheers

well done mate, your on fire! very interesting peice.

anttal63 wrote:well done mate, your on fire! very interesting peice.

Thanks Antonio , it will make a raft of all rafts in my collection anyway
.I only hope it fires like me and not go dormant like some of the other Hawthorns i have .Got my eye on just 1 more tree well maybe 2 ,3 ahh whos counting .Cheers

WELL THIS HAS BEEN A LONG WINDED THREAD BUT THIS MIGHT FINALLY NAIL IT.

very nice, i really need to get back to the farm and grab those last two.

They are very similar to this though, i hate to say they might have a bit more movement but possibly not as good nebari!

So glad to see so many people taking advantage of this weed.

Keep 'em coming

bloody hell. Its a weed? nobody told me that

yes, A weed, not weed!

That almost looks like it is sitting next to the hedge it came out off.
It looks great. I would cover those surface roots up for a bit though. How long ago was this collected?

very nice bodhi but it aint over yet! is it mr miyagi?