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greenlarry_gw

Pseudotaxus rooting success!

17 years ago

wow I'm pleased! for the fist time I have got a conier to root from cuttings!

Basicaly I got some cuttings from Torreya a while ago and planted them up in a pot. Then the greenhouse got trashed, again, and i got fed up, enough is enough, I give up etc etc.

So the pot was left outside all winter and just left to its devices. I noticed that the foliage was stil green all through the winter and wondered if it was still alive. Anyway the other day I noticed the pot had got knocked over, spilling all the soil everywhere! So I picked up the cuttings expecting them to be compist fodder but I noticed white roots! Both cuttings that had survived have rooted! I quickly put them back in a pot(one for each cutting now) and refilled with compost, putting them back but sheltered from the wind.

Fingers crossed I have a couple of new conifers!!

Now I put Pseudotaxus in the subject line there but I'm not 100% sure. A lot happened in my life last year and my plants got put on the back shelf as it were, but now its spring and the planting bug is back! I've compared pics on google as best I can with another similar genus but I'm sure the name Pseudotaxus was on the label bere it got lost.

Here be pics!

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Comments (15)

  • 17 years ago

    Looks great. I guess sometimes conifers actually benefit from neglect? Thanks for posting.

  • 17 years ago

    the corollary to sluice's comment is that we TEND TO KILL THINGS WITH TOO MUCH LOVE ... in the garden i mean, of course ...

    ken

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  • 17 years ago

    sometimes in the house too Ken! The number of times I've had to try and convince people that their cactus does NOT need to be watered every day, or that their Chinese Elm bonsai will not shrivel up and die if you put it outside in the rain!

  • 17 years ago

    Congrats!

    Yep, that's Pseudotaxus.

    Resin

  • 17 years ago

    Thanks Michael! Is the member named Torreya still around? I lost his email and wanted to thank him!

  • 17 years ago

    He should be, still posts from time to time, tho' not too frequently

    Resin

  • 17 years ago

    Greenlarry

    congrats I hope the two cuttings make new
    growth I find its not an easy conifer from
    cuttings.

  • 16 years ago

    Hi greenlarry

    Can you update this thread with new pictures ?

  • 15 years ago

    >Hi greenlarry

    Can you update this thread with new pictures ?>

    err, probably no change, in fact I'm not sure theyre still alive! I really dont have any time for plants at the moment

  • 15 years ago

    Oh i feel awful! Basically I've not had time for the garden and after losing so much stuff I gave up. The bonsai have gone back into the garden, just don't have the time but worst is I just been out to check on the pseudotaxus cuttings. They're still there, still in the pots but those pots are in a clear plastic container which partly filled with water during summer to alleviate them drying out in the heat. Well the water the pots are stood in is frozen solid! Is the end for my plants? The leaves look purplish but its hard to see out there as its snowing again, its night time and im full of cold!

  • 15 years ago

    Greenlarry

    I can send you some pseudotaxus cuttings in Jan 2010

  • 15 years ago

    Sorry I ment Jan 2011!!!

  • 15 years ago

    Thanks blue, i thought you were a time traveller for a minute there ;) So you think the ones I have are toast? Bloody annoyed about it to be honest!

  • 15 years ago

    Give them a chance they might put on new growth in the
    spring that would be bloody good.

  • 15 years ago

    Will do blue, and if all is lost I'll take you up on that offer!

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