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Posted by dieseler CHG z5 (My Page) on Thu, Feb 4, 10 at 18:00
Here is something i did last season as i was curious.
I had bought these at HD there flat disk and there peat, instructions say soak in water and they expand which they did .
There is a netting on them to keep everything from falling apart once expanded.
What i did was run sink water on the scion to clean thats just me and made hole in peat cup and stuck the stick in it with a cup over it. It worked for me.
In other picture i had a pastry container, i soaked some SM rinsed off the scion with sink water and put into container closed lid and the scion rooted.
I had fun doing it.
For those who have saw pictures excuse , i know there are some newer members that might enjoy the pictures.Also picture of one of my trees.
I have been a member since 2005 here and never get bored of your pictures so keep posting them !
Best Health
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RE: A few last season
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Hi dieseler
We all the new and old newcies like the shape of you potted plants and try to copy and hope it works slowly.
About the two rooted cuttings, how long did it take in each case to root from the start? |
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| Martin does indeed have beautiful container trees. Dan |
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Thanks Ottawan and Dan.
For me there easy to shape and i always wanted them to look like my grandmother fig tree when i was a child.Course mine are on smaller scale because hers was in ground several blocks from Miday airport in Chicago.
She was the one person that perked my interest early on in her garden as every Sunday we were in her garden doing something.
The ones in peat pot took 15 days to get those roots in picture, the ones in the SM took 19 days they were italian unknown and some beautiful Madeira scion i recieved from Jon at Encanto farms. The italian unknown scion came from 1 of my adult plant.
Sad to say all those and a sals corleone were lost due to the dreaded knats ( long story ) but had grow lights with small plants underneath my train platform.
No more small plants in winter undergrow lights for me. All plants have been replaced except italian unknown which i destroyed the 4 year old parent plant because of 1 ripe fig only in 4 full seasons late last summer. Scion of that plant was sent to California when i cut it up.
Anyways it was fun for me.
Best Health
Martin |
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Picture time! I have a better camera now with a built in flash. By way of explaination: I read up on 'plant cloners' and thought I might try the technique. First go round was just 5 gallon bucket with 4" water with aquarium pump and stone to provide mist. I 'tented' it with a kitchen size garbage bag.
 I had a weak momment deciding if I wanted a couple of big cuttings or a bunch of small cuttings and quantity won out over quality. I cut these below the root masses to make a bunch of little cuttings. Last year the bucket and some cuttings. This year an in ground swiming pool and and tree limbs! Rick |
RE: A few last season
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| .......looks like the branches in the swimming pool approach will give you enough to plant an orchard. Dan |
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Hi Rick,
i first read about the bucket and airstone must have been around mid 2005 when i first joined the forum but not sure. As i gave it some thought myself to try as i had yet to sell my 55 gallon tank and pumps and some airstones even had a air stick.
This guy had a 5 gallon bucket put some water in it with a bunch of long sticks and ran the airstone just dont recall how long he would run the stone. He had said many of them rooted.
I do have a plastic minnow bucket with a air circulator setup for my small boat that i run off the boat battery that i could use but i dont know i just dont want to get into rooting anymore because i just dont have the room for storing them anymore but its sure fun rooting them, amazingly the fun part is not watching or seeing roots grow like when i had done it years back but its watching the tiny leaves grow as there so beautiful.
Well maybe room for 1 more !!!
Best Health
Martin |
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| I "one mored" my collection to over 200 trees. Now I am "one moring" "one more acre" of land to add "even more" trees. Definitely a sign of fig madness. Dn |
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| I may have to follow the Johnny Apple Seed model :). I live on an acre of land but water is a problem. There is a small creek next to my property that supplies unlimited water during the spring but slows down to a trickle of maybe 100 gallons a day by fall. My family's ranch is ~155 acres but a 20 mile drive I don't want to make every day. Water is a bit of a problem on the ranch too but it does have three year round springs. That's the real downside to California, no water. In addition to what I grow with water I pump I would like to put a couple of fig trees next to the creek that borders my property. Ditto for ranch, maybe put a few dozen trees down hill from our springs. These will be 'free for all' trees in that I don't care if the varmits that get the fruit be of the two or four legged variety! Hope I don't boor you too much with details but much of California was logged around 1900 for either Redwoods or Oak. In addition to what nutients you directly lose from the local ecosystem by pulling out lumber and firewood, tailings left behind actually produces nitrogen depletion of the soil as decomposition uses more then it supplies. You end up with trees like Gray Pine that do well in poor soil, squirrels that eat the pine nuts, raccoons going through garbage cans, and coyotes eating house cats. Fig trees seem like they are the ideal solution or at least worth a try jerking around on a small scale. Almost every other tree gets eaten by deer and never make it to maturity. Figs are almost as controlling as me! I mean they have a built in "don't eat these parts or I'll poison you + You can eat this part when I am ready for you to eat it and not before." Things seem to roll when you are able to put a couple of tons of food into an environment. We used to dump waste fruit and vegetables on ranch we had by Lick Observatory. Herds of deer, bobcats, ground and tree squirrels, coyote, mountain lion, dozens of species of birds, fox, bugs galor, raptors, you name it. I'd like to see if I can make a sustainable 'hands off' and diverse ecosystem locally based on the fig. That and grow all the figs I can eat of course! Rick |
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