Never grown one before in my life but I got some Bonsai seeds in the Secret Santa at the cactus club I damped the seed and put them in a plastic bag with some tissue in the fridge for a week (Tetters was furious ) Then put them somewhere warm for another week. First one has germinated
What is the type of seed jack pine? Most likely a small evergreen. However , just about any plant can be root trimmed ,grown in tiny containers ,wired limbs ,using tiny tools with an eye and talent for art. I always had a fascination with Bonsai, but never could find the time or patience to try.. I’ve seen some excellent bonsai at the bonsi exhibitions held at the Japanese garden.. Absolutely mind boggling… they are an amazing work or art.
One of the parents that I worked with use to grow them, he use to bring a few in to show me. I found it fascinating when he use to explain the procedure, a lot of patience is required but the results are well worth it.
We planted jack pine trees all around the eroded areas of the family farm. We must have planted hundreds of them.
Ta everyone Don't know anything more about the seed other than the name. It came in a kit. She thought it was cactus seeds My Mum got up in the middle of the night and took my Ragworms out of the fridge once. She was worried about them getting cold
I've got a few Bonsai trees Smallest is an Ash, potted that up about 9 years ago and it hasn't put out any branches yet. @Dirtmechanic might remember that from another forum The Beech in the middle is relatively new, it was a seedling in the fruit tunnel so probably about 4 years old. Got problems with the Pine tree. The roots blocked the drainage holes and it got waterlogged 2 years ago. It's lost a lot of leaves but it's still got buds coming so it might pick up. I planted an Ivy seedling at the base a few years ago and it's grown right up it
When I was very small, I caught my Grand Mother digging a hole under a pecan tree. She had a metal coffee can beside it. Remember as a Southern boy the civilian tales of Union troops coming are local and not far removed at a generational level count. I was old enough to have read Robinson Crusoe and naturally my immediate thought was she had to be burying valuables. I gently and casually asked what she was doing. She told me she was burying this can. That was when I got stunned, and disappointed really, by the fact that it was empty. The zinc is good for the pecans, she told me. I never forgot that treasure. Maybe your tree needs a little treasure too? I suspect metal oxides are under reported. But metals and pH have a love hate relationship that can be acidic one day and alkaline the next. And for the non @Zigs level reader, acid soul has metals on a dissolved chemistry where alkaline has them in the opposite. And here my knowledge ends.
Good call Mr Mechanic Did you actually see that the tin can was empty, or was that just a cover story to stop you digging it up later? There's an old English saying which is now banned under hate speech laws - "A woman, a dog and a Walnut Tree. The more you beat them, the better they be." Wonder if that was with a metal stick?
