I found you some pots today S,I am not counting the 20 or more crosses I have going,Dang and I have seeds to start,should be a great year.
Let's see the TREE's
Root, I think you are going to have to buy a lot of potting soil or make up your own for in the spring. How big a lot do you live on? Are you planning to plant all your brugs in pots or most in the ground. Very impressive. Donna
Great Bob!! Wish it was time to pot them all up right now and sit on the deck and watch them grow. Thanks a bunch.
Really Vi!! Thems fighting words! LOL!! I wish I had a good pic of my Creamsickle or my huge Rosamond. But I can't believe you are dissing my Big Yella!!! This is one trunk!! I would like to see another canopy like this one! LOL
Eat your dirty words VI! LOL
This is on 1 stalk and you are only seeing the canopy because of all the underplanting! So there!
he-he-he fighting words, INDEED!
made you post, made you post!
naa na naa na naa na... :p
Now Kris, I DO owe you an apology, that's a heck of a tree, and I guess those are supports coming up from the ground?
kell, now just how in the world can anyone see thru your Big Yella, I ask you? Please find your pix of the others.
Root, just wondering here...if you laid a brug on it's side would those branch root and give more it more strenth and flowering?
Shirley, I didn't mean to snub you, I think we were posting a the same time (I get distracted sometimes ): I don't recall seeing that pic of Pristine--gorgous! They're all gorgorgous!
This is the first time I'm triming back my brugs, so it's neat to see the different forms!
Vi,Shirley and I talked about this,we wondered the same thing,I am going to try it,just to see what happens.
I just took time to look even though this thread has been going for a while. All of you have such beautiful brug trees and I am very impressed by the work that all of you have done establishing these.
Vi, I was just messing with you, no need to apologize. Those other sticks are supports.
I had one brug that had a branch going out to the side, once it got heavy it touched the ground and put down new roots. It was probably 1 1/2 foot from the main trunk.
Yea Vi, we like to mess with you! LOL
Mess with me all y'all want, just give me more tree pix!
Kris, was your Whiskers in a pot in the ground, or did you dig it up and put it in a pot? And what kind of supports are they?
Also my question about putting my GQ back out next year, is it best to sink it lower? Or cut one off at ground level and try to root it now?
My Whiskers was in the ground, no pot. I dug it up and chopped a bunch of roots back, and squeezed it into a 7 gallon pot. It is leafing back out now in the house, and next year I will plant it with holes in the pot.
The support sticks are just sticks out of the woods, I have tons of it for free.
Somebody else gets to answer the other question.
Kris
How tall is your GQ, Vi? So you want an alley tree? I do not think it will get all that much taller if that that is your goal or do you just want a straight trunk? If you want a straight trunk I would cut one trunk off and reroot it (staked) and save the straightest one on the roots you have now and plant it (roots and all) at an angle to make it even straighter. If you really want a much taller one before it Ys, I would plant it in the ground and wait for it to sucker you one! And when it does, take the sucker immediately as soon as it appears it will be a tall one and let it grow as a sucker (not detached) until it Ys then airlayer it.
Here is my Creamsickle tree just for you, Vi!
Here's my Charles Grimaldi tree. This picture was taken in July.
This is the same CG tree at the end of September, taken from the other side of the tree.
Here are my Pink Beauty and Ecuador Pink trees, right next to each other.
This is a white Suaveolens seedling that I grew from seed this year. It is flowering for the first time here.
Great bunch of pictures on this thread.
Vi, here's a tree in the making for next summer.
It was a hard photo to take with all the plants in that room, but the stick in the middle is a six foot sucker from Versi Apricot.
It was cut off about two weeks before the first frost. I stripped all the leafs off except the smallest ones at the top, tied it to the bamboo stick and put it in a glas of water. When it had some roots, I put it in the pot and it is starting to grow new leafs now.
I'm not taking that bamboo stick out of there until it turns woody. I'm going to have a straight one this time.
Ops, forgot the photo.
Looks like you will get a nice tall and straight one! Nothing worse than when you think you have a great alley tree and then realize it won't straighten out!! (well, I guess a dead one would be worse! LOL) I would keep it on a stake though. I have had big fat woody trunks that are straight and because of whatever, they start to lean over and are straight no more!
