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Posted by Chris_ont 5a Ont (My Page) on Tue, Aug 17, 04 at 13:12
Well, this was silly.
On a lark, I bought a tiny potted gingko at home depot for two bucks. It was just so cute and I've ALWAYS wanted a gingko and never had the right property for it.
But now that I have it at home I wonder how to get it through the winter. I am supposing that it should go dormant, but can you do that with a potted tree? It's about 10 inches tall and has about eight large leaves.
For the two bucks I don't suppose it matters much but now I feel responsible for this little guy. And it'd be interesting to see if I can grow this thing in a pot.
Any advice on how to handle this? Basement? Let it keep the leaves? Put it out on the glass-in porch where it's not too cold but does go below freezing in the winter?
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RE: potted gingko
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| IMO, probably the best thing you can do is dig a hole and plant it, pot and all, for the winter. Leaving it in the pot above ground outside runs the risk of the roots being severely frozen and killed. When insulated by soil around it, the freeze is more gradual and the roots have more time to adapt. You could also put some straw mulch around it to give a bit more insulation. Second-best solution sounds like the glass-in porch. |
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| I put my potted ginko outside for the winter and it survives snow and freezes. Keeping a potted gingko in too warm of an enviromnent during the winter will actually kill it. They need a cold spell for their normal dormancy and in the spring it sprouts again. Gingkos survive winter snows on Hokkaido Island in Northern Japan just fine. |
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