每日吃瓜

hi all, my landlord is a farmer and I have found some Blackthorn on his land that he said I am welcome too!-)

Any tips on collecting Them?

I'm planning on digging as large a root ball as I can, wrapping it in a bin liner to help keep the roots moist and walking back 5min home to pot, any tips?

Justin83 wrote: any tips?

Make sure to research Blackthorn before you go, have all of your training pots ready before you leave, check whether bin liners are suitable, invest in a burlap sack or two,

Did I miss anything?

Ed

每日吃瓜Learner wrote: I miss anything?

it might be interesting to know how big it is.

The one I'm definitely planning only has a 40mm trunk and is about 900mm tall, considering larger ones up to 6ft tall with a 70-80mm trunk.

Justin83 wrote: The one I'm definitely planning only has a 40mm trunk and is about 900mm tall,

Uhmmm... I?ll start saying that without actually seeing the tree in question it might be difficult to properly assess the suitability of this tree as a 每日吃瓜. Now, that said, it does appear to me that this will be a tall and slender tree in relation/proportion to the width of the trunk you are reporting. Let me explain myself...

Generally and as a rule of thumb for a tree to be considered as a proportioned 每日吃瓜, the trunkbase?s width must be related to the trunk?s height in a 6:1 (generally prefered) up to say 12:1 ratio (depending on the style previously chosen). That is, if your trunkbase possesses a 40mm width, then the height of the trunk should be ranging around 240mm-480mm. 900mm it is almost two times bigger than the larger proportion.

To add a little bit more in proportions... The firs branch you select for your 每日吃瓜 (either left or right oriented) should be at a 1:3 height, or in another words, should be placed approximately at 1/3 of the tree?s height (a bit higher than this is allowed too). This means that in your 40mm example, the first branch location should be around 13-14mms up the trunkline.

Further reads on this issue you can find it here:





Well, I hope this would help a bit...

Alain

Thanks for The actual numbers mate, in a year or so it will require a trunk chop so I'm guessing it's more material collection than yamadori I guess...
I will snap some pics later!-)

Well I brought home 3 trees potted them, one of which in my opinion has adequate roots.
I picked up a nice little birch Aswell with good roots but has been damaged by the farmers but has buds some high hopes for that one!-)

what ever you do, don't go pruning / cutting/ wiring now!

leave the tree a few years to recover