super...

but i think they look sickly ... you will have to send me one for observation ...

rotflmbo ...

after my z4 winter... i think.. NOT!!!!

anyway.. congrats ...

did you do the nasty deed with the rootstock in the ground????

ken

Thanks. : )
They were grafted to wild Loblolly pine seedlings that have been naturally growing in ground for at least a few years now.

how did you manage to time that all out???

ken

I collected scion on March 2nd (kind of late) but thankfully this has been a long cold winter, and these more northern stands I'm sure bud out later than most anyway. Removed needles, waxed, and put in fridge until wild Loblolly pine seedlings started pushing buds, then I grafted (Tried to wait until after the last freeze also). The scion buds have just started pushing growth in the past two weeks or so.

This post was edited by treeguy123 on Sat, May 10, 14 at 21:33

Nice!

Can you provide more details about the waxing process?

Yeah, it's paraffin wax

This post was edited by treeguy123 on Mon, May 12, 14 at 0:26

That's an impressive accomplishment -- good work. Hope they do OK.

Longleafs here did OK after a zone5ish winter. Some windburn on oldest needles, but no bud-death. One had a double-leader up high, but the snow-loads bent one downward, solving the issue.

Thanks.
That's really good for doing OK through zone 5 type winter. I think this one has a good chance of needle cold hardiness to zone 5a or 5b being that it from the very northern edge of range in AL. Yours came from AL didn't it? I read that in a old past post.

Right, from a wholesale forestry nursery in the northeast AL mountains. They're called 'Montane' longleaf, and that nursery was working to get some of the mountain stands reestablished.

Good quest to bring this cultivar forth. Happy success.

Thanks.

This is only three days of growth for another graft I made of this same Longleaf Pine broom (all grafted to Loblolly Pine seedlings):

3 days of growth animation for the broom bud growth: :-)

This post was edited by treeguy123 on Tue, May 13, 14 at 23:16

That's incredible!

Indeed

Oh my god! This is really like wow!!!!!! Can you show us more with this magnificent technique?