Last weekend I went collecting again. It was a bit early beause some of the trees I found was still frosen in the ground so I couldn’t collect them. (I’ll go back later ). I did collect one tree. It’s the largest tree I have ever collected. It’s currently about 160 cm tall, but I hope to reduce the hight to about 1 meter in the future. The trunk diameteris about 45 cm.
It was so heavy that I has seious doubts that I could carry it to my car, but in the end I managed to get it home, the next day my whole body was sore, I had pain in places I didn’t know I had muscels.
I got a lot of roots so I think it will live even though big, old trees like this (it’s probably at least 200- 300 years old) are weak and more difficult to collect successfully than smaller pines. I will know if it survives within a few months. I keep my finges krossed.
Gratulation for such a pine with that trunkdiameter !!! All fingers are crossed for surviving
In what kind of soil do you take suchs pines and piceas ? Is it a mixture out of their origine soil, Akadama and rockgranuate ?
greetings
avicenna
For the pines I use pumice, but some times also baked clay. They always have a rootball of their original soil, but most of the new roots will grow in the pumice around the old soil ball.
For spruces I use baked clay, the only reason for using baked clay instead of pumice is that it’s easier for me to get it in my area, to get pumice I have to travel a long way to the producer : -(