Sweeeet post Nate. Would you tell me where you bought your flats at? And I assume the band pots fit snugly...

I love seedlings popping. Those Cupressus arizonica are beautiful. The concolor's, what are you going to do with those? I ask because they are a very poor understock choice or are you moving to a vast amount of land :-) Poor because you must not graft A.koreana to them; it's an eventual death to the scion within eight years, and, because they have a long tap root. Such lovely conifers otherwise.

Do you actually have a mist system or are you hand misting?

So cool.

Later,

Dax

Dax,

These are actually on Betsy's bench, which has a mist system. I think she is going to select concolor seedlings, as the seeds came from selected plants themselves.
Not sure where her flats/band pots are from. Last year I ordered some from Grower's Nursery Supply.

Nate

another hint on the mystery seed: it's a fruit

Thanks, I no longer work with Growers Nursery Supply - hence my question.
And shipping just doesn't cut it with a very good company: OBC Northwest.
It cost me almost as much on shipping as the products, themselves.

Dax

Hi Nate,
Does your photo of the Pinus strobiformis show us it's natural gowing habbit or is his a fastigiate one?

That's a little more fastigiate but these have habit's similar to that, so yes and yes is your answer, Edwin. They'll also open up like how Pinus strobus Fastigiata would. It would be a lousy GAMBLE to graft that specimen.....

Dax

Nate:

On the mystery seed ... I'm gonna guess papaya or mango. What do I win?

Nate, which Pinus monophylla selections were grafted at these photos?

Edwin, I often drive by that P. strobiformis, since it's close to where I live. It's a striking tree standing out by itself in a meadow.
One day I asked Jerry if he knew about it, and coincidentally he said he gave that tree to the property owner many years ago.
The monophylla selections are new, provisionally named 'Uno' and 'Two minus one'. I guess there's some logic to that.
Strobiformis and monophylla don't grow natively near Denver, but I'm hoping to see them in their original range someday!

Mutantplantlover, you win. It's a mango! The prize is a conifer tree. Where in Michigan are you?

Here are a few photos from this weekend's foray to the mountains.

Pinus flexilis
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trunk emerging from the rocks
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Pseudotsuga menziesii
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Abies lasiocarpa
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Pseudotsuga menziesii broom
I hope this branch can hang on until winter!
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Soooo.....in another thread it is written...

"I want to prepare the U.S. members that this beautiful gold weeping one will be availlable one day... ;0) "

I see said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.

tj

Great pictures! Loved the little miniature Pinyon forest!