Hi Sluice, ad No.3 Pinus sylvestris. Last year I´v found witch on it. It was so called driving car discovery and this winter heavy snow and wind destroy this pine... so my friendly foresters Milon and Wenceslaw help me... Another Pinus sylvestis must Milon climb... Good work... Jan wbgarden Here is a link that might be useful: wbgarden dwarf conifers

It's a bit far away to tell, but I've never seen any witches broom attack my bamboo ever, and we've got it on some of our other wild weeds around here, especially the wild roses and that honeysuckle bush stuff. Is it the only culm affected? Do you notice any other anomalies? Is one of your neighbors spraying round up or some other toxic organophosphate? That might explain the growth of a Super Bamboo. That would be cool if you got some sort of genetic mutation with that. Kudzu is the expert, maybe he'll be able to interject some wisdom on this one. I'm so curious! Other than some sort of radiation, I can't imagine what else it could be. A close up picture would also help. :)

Sure. All of the original grafts I did in early 2019 failed. Almost certainly due to rookie mistakes (My guess is I didn’t keep the fresh grafts humid enough). My buddy with much more experience got a few to take and of those one is still alive, but its not a great looking plant so far. Here’s a fairly recent pic of it: This is a double graft on one rootstock and I think he may still have some of the rootstock left on it. The broom is still on the tree and seems fairly well, though somewhat shaded. On the tree it’s a nice baby blue color, but this graft is sorta dull in color. He has it in full sun. Not sure if that‘s a good thing or not. I went back and collected more scion material this past January to try again. This time I sent a good number of scions to a professional and I grafted 7 or 8 myself. This time I had a 100% take (initially), but with varying degrees of vigor amongst the individual grafts. Some pushed very strong and others are still alive, but pushed very little and they don’t look good. The ones that pushed strong all died after about 6 months. Not sure why, maybe too much shade and too much rain. Before they died they looked like this: I had some that looked even better than that. One thing that was encouraging was they seemed to be growing a bit more densely than the broom on the tree. Hopefully I can keep the stragglers alive over winter and get some healthy lasting growth next year. The professional grower is having better luck, but even they haven’t been particularly impressed with the results As their grafts are pushing slower than they expected. It‘s my understanding that some brooms are just stronger/tougher/more graft friendly and I’m afraid this broom might be a bit on the weak side, but it’s my first broom and Deodara is my favorite so I’m not giving up on it that’s for sure. Deodara was planted heavily in my area around 100 years ago. There are many huge trees of the species. Since I found this first broom I have gone on to find almost 90 more, mostly on native pines, but I have scoured many more Deodars for brooms and was beginning to think I would never find another broom in one. About a month ago I was excited to find this guy though: It’s definitely not as dwarf as the other, but I’m hoping that means it might graft more easily and be a little stronger in general. In my part of the world I find that I’m having better success grafting in September/October so I didn’t waste any time getting scions off this guy (twice now I’ve had trees with brooms get cut down before I collect so I’ve learned my lesson). I ended up doing about 12 grafts on 7 rootstock. It’s been almost 3 weeks and I’m starting to wean them off the humidity. So far they all look good. I put some cuttings in my rooting chamber as well. Fortunately once again the broom is pretty accessible so I can always get more. And I’ll probably send some to my professional friends when they graft this winter.

With out googleing 'Witches Broom', what I see looks like mite infestation or plant cancer. Never seen it on Euphorbia but common on Aloes. The mite as far as I know doesn't go from species to species but is one species only. So can't go to Agave or Cactus but only other Euphorbia. The matricides are expensive and hard to get and most throw the plant away but I have had good results with Sevin liquid. It is known to stop the spread but under consent sprayings I have cured Aloe mite damage in some plants. It took years but it did save the plant and must keep away from others of it's species until you are sure it is gone.