Question about plants from nurseries that grow "hard' Haworthias.
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Comments (8)Hi: Hearing from you all is like a reunion! Thank you!! Sherry, planting and caring for that many seedlings just about did me in last summer. One thing helped - Pete put an underground water delivery system in the field. It runs about 600 ft with several faucets and hoses spaced about 75' apart. That made it easier to water during the drought. Still ... In January, I accepted a new job (in addition to the usual ones) that took ALL my time this spring. I expect the crunch to ease as I get used to it. I don't want to stop planting but need a Plan B if/when life gets crazy again. +om: thanks for the encouragement and advice. I don't plan to hold them over long. In general, they will be seedlings ordered in spring that I'll plant in early winter after they go dormant. lkz5ia - thanks for the photo! 500 NS seedlings - WOW! What you describe and show in the photo is exactly what I want to do. I found a great source of healthy seedlings, more diversity than state nurseries. Like you, I want to be able to hold some over. John: I'm happy with the reforestation project. Some black locust seedlings are 10-12' tall after one year (others are 4'). The forester says my survival rate is as good or better than theirs. This year, my goal was to increase diversity so I planted shade tolerant trees, like sugar maples, and wildlife shrubs and trees. Added Burr and Shumard oaks, tupelos (black gum), red mulberries, more dogwoods, more longleaf pines. I'm planning a veg/herb/cutting garden, can put seedling nursery bed(s) in the same area for protection. Thanks to you all, I learn something new every day. Many thanks for the encouragement and advice. Pam...See MoreGrowing for a Nursery! Have some questions....
Comments (5)We have been looking at several options over the last year or two for plant stakes. We used to mark all the stakes by hand but that rapidly became just too much. As an interum measure last year we went to a moveable type stamp from Trodant called a Typomatic. The only problem with it was finding ink that was both waterproof and would bond to the plastic stakes. It allowed text only in one color but did an exceptable job. Over the winter we looked at several new options that would give us more flexability (I would love to get one of those TPX thermal printers but they cost an arm and a leg). We found two options that looked good - laser printable plastic stakes and waterproof vinyl labels. The printable stakes (from Gardenware.com) looked pretty good but require a laser printer which we currently did not have. Instead we opted to get the waterproof vinyl labels from Onlinelabels.com that were ink jet compatable (they also carry laser labels) #OL25WJ. These are 1 3/4" long and 1/2" high so they fit well on the plastic stakes. We have had them on the plants in the greenhouse now for a little over a month and they seem to be holding up well - the tech guy I talked to there said they should hold up for two years in wet conditions so time will tell. I am using Avery Labelpro software that came with an old printer but they have templates for Word and other programs available free on the site. There are 80 labels per page and cost us $60 for 100 sheets (8000 labels works out to about 3/4 cents per label). The laser labels are slightly cheaper. I am using a HP 750 series printer and they feed and print just fine. The only problem we had at first was the ink wanted to smudge - we overcame this by changing the print settings to draft quality (the imulsion on the stakes soak up the ink and the higher setting were putting too much ink on for it. You still have to peel and stick but it's a whale of a lot easier than doing markes with a pen. Our first big plant sale of the season is a week from this Saturday so that will be the acid test. Hope this helps. Tom Here is a link that might be useful: vinyl labels...See MoreGreat Hard-To-Find Woody Plants- in Ct. Nurseries
Comments (16)Right, as Sue said, it just isn't vigorous and has been tough to propogate. I got very interesting comment on it from Jed from Olivers (who as you might know is willing to offer you ANYTING new and unusual even if it is marginally hardy for z6b). When I ask him about LH he said that even his best grower on Long Island can't produce decent looking (read saleable) plants for two years. Rate of mortality in a first year in nursery conditions is over 30%, in ground almost twice as much. So far nobody knows why it is thriving on West Coast while being a problem on East one. Reminds me of a polemonium 'Brise'd Anjou' story....See MoreGrow oak from acorn or buy from nursery?
Comments (8)I have a bur oak that i bought from lowes that I planted in Fall 2005. It was probably 5 feet tall. Maybe 4.5 feet tall for 5 gallon. It grew about 8 inches for 2006. This year, it has grown 2 feet already and is in its 2nd growth spurt right now. It's amazing how much growth it has put on this year. I was hoping for 3 feet of growth and it looks like I might get more than that with all the rain! I had shumard oak that REALLY GREW this spring after planting it in fall 2005. Unfortunately, that violent storm over a month ago snapped it in half. Looks like for 5-7 gallon, 4-7 feet height, it takes a year to establish roots before they really take off in 2nd year. I can confirm that oak trees grow VERY LONG TAPROOT. I planted a bunch of acorns in the small cups and didnt think about roots since they have grown only 3-4 inches. When i took them out of the small cups, i was shocked to see all those long tap root circling around in the cups. Lesson learned. It's best to air prune them! I am curious how fast oak trees grow when planted as an acorn. I probably will experiment with that on my "retirement" land (thats a long time away :( ) and there are area that I want to grow trees for privacy. There's no water there for me to water container trees so Im stuck with planting seeds or very small seedlings. Anyway, the oak trees that I grew in small cups last year hasn't really grown very much this year. I had to prune the tap root off. Apparently from reading about tap roots, they do not like their tap root pruning and will significantly slow the growth. Oh well....See MoreNil13 usda:10a sunset:21 LA,CA (Mount Wash.)
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