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Plastic Wrap on Fused Ficus
Comments (49)We have to recognize that it's always ok for the grower to do whatever he wishes with his plants because they're his plants, but when we look at various procedures from the perspective of what's best for the plant, we'll find an emerging pattern that takes advantage of the plant's increased energy levels and tries to minimize the effects of low energy levels. For most houseplants, the highest rate of increase in energy occurs between Memorial Day and July 4th, and the plant's highest level of reserve energy would occur in August, so any significant work (hard pruning, root pruning, full repots) are best done between Father's Day and Independence Day. Potting up (as opposed to repotting), minor pruning - removing a wayward branch or two or pinching, can be done safely whenever the tree is healthy. If you were removing more than about 10$ of any one of the tree's foliage, it would be best to wait until early next summer. Foliage is where food comes from, and your plant needs foliage to meet current energy demands and minimize demands on energy reserves so the tree isn't playing catch-up when late spring rolls around. 1) Why would I want to slow the trunk's thickening? Is it just to encourage an attractive taper? It was just a notation - a tip you could use if you found 1 trunk being inordinately fat when compared to the others as being unpleasing to the eye. For bonsai artists, it's important for the lowest branch to be the thickest, and for branches to grow subsequently thinner as they occur closer to the apex. Since trees are usually apically dominant, they want to concentrate 3/4 of their energy in the upper 1/4 of the tree, so it's up to the grower to slow the top down so the tree is forced to channel energy into the lower branches. The same principle applies to slowing down one of the trees in your grouping. Remove some of its foliage - some of its ability to make food - and growth slows in that trunk only, allowing the others to catch up. 2) How would I direct a branch to vertical? Everything about this plant suggests verticality. Below, you'll see a picture of a maple with an obvious sacrifice branch. In this case, the branch will never be a part of the composition. It's there only to thicken the section of trunk immediately above the 'chop' because the taper is too pronounced. You're looking at the back of the tree, so when that fat, unrefined branch is removed, the scar won't be seen from the front. The small secondary branch emerging upward off of the fat primary branch and has been directed to vertical (initially by wiring it upward) is the future moneymaker. BECAUSE it is growing vertically, the plant will funnel an extra measure of growth energy into it and it will thicken the primary branch faster, which in turn will thicken the trunk faster. Refinement on the rest of the tree will continue as usual, & the primary sacrifice branch along with the secondary branch will simply be removed when the desired measure of trunk thickening has occurred. Al...See MoreStore Bought Young Fruit Trees wrapped in plastic
Comments (3)Always wanted to visit Portugal. A bit warmer and wetter than here I would imagine... There must be a reason you can't plant them in the ground right away, which would be best. I don't know how long you can keep them in the bags, but they will have to be kept moist. If the trees are dormant and deciduous, they should also be kept chilled in a refridgerator. If not dormant, they will need to be provided with light and warmer temperatures, probably 10 C. or warmer, and there will need to be airflow in the bags to prevent mold. If it were me and I couldn't put them in the ground, I'd pot them up right away, then refridgerate dormant plants or put non-dormants in a warm, high-light location....See MorePlastic wrap with holes as lids?
Comments (9)Here is what I've been doing for 5 years and has worked like a charm every year. STYROFOAM CUPS use finger to punch hole in bottom of cup. fill with soil half full for tomato seeds. Get soil good and wet. plant one seed and sprinkle with a little soil on top of the seed. cover with store brand sandwich size ziploc bag with air holes in it. I put the cups in an old carrying tray from the days when I bought my plants and the nursery. last year started using the wooden trays that clementines come in as well. A trick I like with the tomato seedlings that is really good is filling the cup only half full. then as the seedling grows I add more soil to the top of the container to cover some of the stem. roots grow from where the soil was added and gives it an extra boost of roots. The other thing that I do, if the seedlings are getting too tall before I can get them all planted, (happens every year), is I take the tomato seedling out of the cup, add a little more soil to the bottom, then put the seedling back in the cup again. Gives it just a bit extra soil on the bottom for roots too. small containers like margarine, cottage cheese etc. I just slip them inside a store brand ziploc bag with slits in the bottom and top of of the bags and zip them shut. Instead of cutting out the center of the container to use to hold plastic wrap down, I cut up the container and use them to label my seed containers. I use a black paint pen to write with. USING PLASTIC WRAP I use the Glad Brand Press and Seal. it's still clear enough to get light through but not as clear as regular plastic wrap and is sturdier too. I use this to cover 9x13 aluminum pans, smaller aluminum pans, cake covers etc. I use this from April on and it won't hold up to NE winters and heavy snow cover and sleet and freezing rain. I seal the press and seal to the edges of the container, then make slits for air holes with a small razor knife and then the trick to keep the press and seal on is to use cheap spring type wooden clothes pins. I have found tons and tons of the wooden clothes pins in the dollar store. Just picked up more of them last week in packages of 72 clothes pins for $1. Hope this helps Fran...See MoreBaking with plastic wrap? Ew.
Comments (10)Silicone is supposed to be inert to foods. Does it come off the parchment? I didn't think it did... Even so, the trace amount shouldn't be an issue. The issue, as I understand it, with leaking silicone breast implants isn't the silicone itself, but the foreign substance getting into parts of the body where foreign substances aren't supposed to go. Like the classic grain of sand in an oyster. If it goes into your alimentary system--which is designed to push indigestible substances out--it shouldn't be a problem. I suppose if you were ingesting a lot of it, and it somehow glommed onto your tissues, it could be bad... Breathing flour is bad for you too. The problem with many plastics is that component chemicals are altered under heat from something innocuous and inert to something bad that can be leeched into your food. There are some plastic films that are rated safe for heating as in no altered and mobile substance has been found when they're heated, but still ewww....See More
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