No way you'd get me up that high!

"No way you'd get me up that high!"

....its not getting up, but getting down that seems to be the bigger problem: remember the scene from the Police Academy movie, where the cop tells the old lady "don't worry ma'am - I'll get your cat down from the tree...." :O)

Amazing! Are you a full time forester?

No for me getting up is bad enough! Its not quite vertigo but I just dont like high places with nothing around me-i have been up mount snowdon 5 timed but I hate ladders

Try this then Larry, good old Fred - no safty harness.

Here is a link that might be useful: Fred Dibnah

Now there's a video that will curl your toes!

tj

I showed it to my wife and she nearly fainted!
This must be your man if ever a broom appeared in one of those giant Ponderosa pines! T.

Slama would climb that building and chimney in a heartbeat.

Dax

Hi guys, today news....
This monster is maybe one hundred years old witch on two hudred years old spruce. As to rangefinder 46 m high.Nice.

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As to vertigo, thirty years ago was not problem for me anything, but now I prefer to cooperate with younger guys.
Let me indroduce you Pinky boy, dipl. ing. architect and very good friendly mounntain climber â¦.

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Pinkys dog Fido as a supervizor...

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Here is a link that might be useful: wbgarden

Found the video clip....

Here is a link that might be useful: Cat-in-Tree

Hi,

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I ll start post works end of this week.
Jan Slama wbgarden

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Great pics Jan !

"No witch is safe with Slama around!" :O)

my hero

With all respect for your hero Dax, we allready have a million witches'brooms of Picea abies and Pinus sylvestris.
All these pics don't shows us nothing with any value, these are all the same.
A yellow or a variegated one would be special...

The Larix.... and the super human ability to climb. I'm sure Slama likes your comments Edwin, not! And the doug fir, almost forgot that one.

Dax

Yep, you're right Dax, his climbing materials are fantastic but the Picea abies brooms are not.
I've seen a milion of these in Poland and the Czech Republic, the same is for Pinus sylvestris who he discribes as Pinus silvestris all the time.
Larix and Pseudotsuga are fine but I would like it more impressive if he shows us some new Abies nordmannia and Abies grandis brooms.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not offending him but the days of the normal Picea abies and Pinus sylvestris brooms are over because it's useless to collect these and give them a name.
I've studied witches'brooms for over 10 years and I know which are very rare and useful and which are to common now.
I hope you understand my comment know...
Jan, you're pics are amazing, keep showing us these but then with other brooms if possible.
I'm aware that this will cost some confusion but that isn't my attention at all...

I agree with Edwin. Brooms of Pinus sylvestris and Picea abies ,all brooms are similar,only the names of brooms are different. If some one is collecting them,he is only collecting records.

Hi all,
with all respect guys, we have allready not only bilions witches. There is another bilions of boytoys, cars, guns, girls etc on all over the world. I am not pro gardener and for me, not only, I mean, looking for new bud mutations is amazing game.
By the way, some stupid comparison. So many school boys play a hockey, to have now such few excelent players like Gretzky or Jagr etc. To choose some excelent not only connifers superstar, it is necesarry wide base, elementary, I mean.
On the other side I understand pro gardener which have their glass houses overflow with milions of montgomery spruces and another not so good selling oldiesâ¦
Sorry for my english. Who wants to change some scions with me, contact me on email, please. Witches are big. Thank you. Make fun, not warâ¦
Strange looking spruces etc..

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Jan Slama wbgarden

Here is a link that might be useful: wbgarden dwarf conifers

"my hero" - I was trying to be funny, humorous. You're still one of the kings to me though, also meaning "king" being a "cool" way to say it, funny/fun.....

Well, anyway, this has nowhere to go now. My attempts at humor and fun are now invalid.

Keep it live Jan! Meaning, have fun, and show us how much fun you are having.

With all respect............ and I know a great broom when I see one too :) I'm no amateur.

Cheers fellas - whiskey..... be brave :) vodka, etc-

Dax

Hi broomers, yesterday old spruces hunt in Jesenik mountain, near the border of our Clondike...

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Judgement of climber Milon, friendly forester.., spruces are old more than 140 years...

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This one has a cones....

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Happy brooming...

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Jan Slama wbgarden

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Jan,

Thanks for sharing your boy toy experiences with us on the forum. Your threads are unique to this forum and to most of us we can only dream about what you have acccess to right out your front door.

Only a pro could put together one of the most beautiful conifer gardens in the world. I can't imagine all the time and effort it took to put your garden together. Pleasurable and stress free work I would think. Boy toys are fun.

Thanks again,

Dave

Thanks for the tour, Jan!

Hi all..,

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Jan Slama wbgarden

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Hi broomers...

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I hope, I was finished....
Jan Slama wbgarden

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fools jealousy setting in.

Jan what is the wb 3 photos up? Very nice Pinus sylvestris above that.

Dax

Jan,

up today the czech conifer list contains 1796 cultivars at me. (Conifer Treasury of the Czech Republik 1.0)
Picea abies 794, pinus mugo (incl. all ssp.) 355. Your plants are missing there. Do you have a list of the Slama selections? Contact me, please.

Zsolt

Hi Zsolt, I am little bit lazy as to lists, but all my collected conifers are labeled and I have photos of all my dicoveries. If you are grafting, send me adr and I�ll send you some scions.
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Dax wait a minute please, you obtain all....

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Jan Slama wbgarden

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Slamtastic!

Dax

Hi Dax, Slamtastic is Daxtraordinary word. Sure..
Today afternoon broom. Fresh...

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Jan Slma wbgarden

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Jan, your adventures in the countryside are fun to enjoy, but I'd like to see more pictures of your garden. It looks like you have been doing this for quite sometime.
I have a set of climbers, but don't do as much as I used to. I didn't go after brooms, because I wasn't on the look out for them. I usually climbed up a tree to limb it up, or attached a line, if needed, to cut it down safely.

Mike

But Jan does it safely. Even when he jumps off a tree on a cliff in a hangglider he has those wind turbine towers down below ready to catch him!
These are really nice dwarf conifers, thanks for showing it!
Bernd

Another beauty for you guys....

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Jan Slama wbgarden

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Hi, Sunday brooms here...

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Thatôs all folks...
Jan Slama wbgarden

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Wow dude, 2 posh sylvestris and one exceptional Picea abies.

Excellent.

Dax

Ninja Jan ??

Epic!

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Flying Pinky...
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Pinky down...
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Rest of hunting committee, Fido and wbgarden....
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Jan Slama wbgarden

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Hi,
yesterday I received marvelous scions from Siberia...

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Jan Slama wbgarden

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Hi all.
Dax maybe my this year star as to dwarf spruce - Picea abies Tedy, very compact, dense, marvelous blue. Perfect witch...

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Done...

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Jan Slama wbgarden

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Jan, super Picea abies witch'. I've always been attracted to those blues/gold/and just blue mini's of those, slowest of dwarfs. Anything 2" (5cm) are the best wb's.

Simply wonderful!

Dax

Jan, the operating rooms looks very good!

The Sergey pics are also enjoyable. It's nice, to have friends in high places. Yes? ;)

VERY nice looking P.abies WB there.

Witching for Dummies......I need to understand. LOL

First of all, I am loving all of those pics - what a blast!

So....you find a witch, cut it off w/o getting killed...and then..?

Do you take a small piece off of it and graft it to rootstock and try to grow something that looks like the original witch you took it from - only alive...?

If so, why do you take the whole witch off of the tree instead of just one or two chunk/scion/whatever they are called?

Hmmmmm....curious. Do you need permission from the land owners to cut all those brooms off? Does it hurt the remaining tree? Did you cut that one tree down just to get the broom?
I'm just scratching my head over this one. I'm into "Live and Let Live". I would just take pictures of them and go on my way.

I'm not speaking for Jan, but here are my 2 cents.

Ademink, yep, the idea is to take a small piece (a scion) off, graft that onto rootstock, with the result growing like the original witch. Sometimes I only take a few cuttings, sometimes the whole broom. It might depend on the location of the tree (remote mountain or city), where the broom is (high or low in tree), and other things.

Catherinet, if the broom is on private property, I get permission first. It doesn't hurt the remaining tree. I've never cut a tree down just to get a broom. I imagine in places where timber is harvested, broomers might coordinate efforts with loggers.

Dear Catherinet, have you ever seen some autumn deerwork on trees ?
Have you ever seen group of hinds gallop thru the reservation ?
Have you ever seen heavy machinery working in the forest ? Have you ever seen heli timber harvesting ???
My seventy kilos on a tree once a time is like a butterfly kiss.
heli logging
Witchs broom is a mutation. Simply it is a cancer. Sorry for my non scientific words. Every creature fight with this. Trees too. Try to destroy this thing. Do some branches over it and close the light and air. Next year maybe you find this broom completly death.
Another problem, broom ball on a top of a tree in winter is mostly icy ball, because dense, very heavy, some hundreds kilos, and one mighty blow of wind and physics do their job...

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Jan Slama wbgarden

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Jan, you do really nice work! I enjoy your pictures.
Bernd

Hi all,
wbgarden winter losses....

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Wbgarden grafting updates....

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Normal wbgarden spring time...

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Anybody wants to graft now...

Jan Slama wbgarden

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Jan, Larix decidua 'Slama' (?)

Nice flowering Cherry. Happy Spring.

Dax

Nice Jan!

Seems like things have recovered since the flood.