The Quack Shack

[duluthralphie]

Hey there Ralphie, how's your morning going?

Good so far..no dux have invaded yet.

 

[DiYMama540]

Once they are done blooming I'm going to attempt to air layer about 8-12 of the lower branches. It's right by the street and is about time for a trim. If it goes well you're welcome to a couple of trees.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handroanthus_chrysotrichus
I haven't actually watched this video, so I might not do it exactly like this, but this is what air layering is.

Love this method of rooting...hadn't seen this before. Thank you so much for sharing!!
Little more work but looks like it should yield better success than traditional cuttings.

 

[Tooshay89]

Once they are done blooming I'm going to attempt to air layer about 8-12 of the lower branches. It's right by the street and is about time for a trim. If it goes well you're welcome to a couple of trees.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handroanthus_chrysotrichus
I haven't actually watched this video, so I might not do it exactly like this, but this is what air layering is.

That's impressive! I had no idea this was a thing. I'd gladly pay you for a couple of those!

 

[Trimurtisan]

Love this method of rooting...hadn't seen this before. Thank you so much for sharing!!
Little more work but looks like it should yield better success than traditional cuttings.

The initial setup is more work, but it's just a matter of waiting once it's going. I've done it with magnolia, and fire bush so far. I've had much better results vs taking cuttings. Biggest draw back is you can take many more cuttings than you can entire branches. It does however give you "tree" that's 1-2 years more advanced though depending on how big of a branch you use.

 

[DiYMama540]

The initial setup is more work, but it's just a matter of waiting once it's going. I've done it with magnolia, and fire bush so far. I've had much better results vs taking cuttings. Biggest draw back is you can take many more cuttings than you can entire branches. It does however give you "tree" that's 1-2 years more advanced though depending on how big of a branch you use.

That's what I was thinking too, taking a pretty big branch gives you a nice size starter tree. I'm going to try this for sure!

Do you have Live Oak or are you too warm?

 

[Trimurtisan]

That's impressive! I had no idea this was a thing. I'd gladly pay you for a couple of those!

Ehh, I'll just give them to you. It literally will only cost me about $3 to root them all. It won't be for 4ish months though. They'll bloom for about a month, seed for about a month, then takes about 2 months to get a good root ball.

I've tried germinating thousands of their seeds over the last 5 years, and never have success. Not even 1. My mom has 5 in her yard and in the last 12 years only 5 seedlings have shown up. My trees are still small/med and they'll have 250+ seed pods each, and each pod has roughly 150 seeds. There are thousands of seeds. They look like mulch under my mom's full grown trees, but they have a .0000001 germ rate. They do grow relatively quick though which is nice.

 

[Trimurtisan]

That's what I was thinking too, taking a pretty big branch gives you a nice size starter tree. I'm going to try this for sure!

Do you have Live Oak or are you too warm?

Yes Miss we do. I've got 3 in my front yard.

 

[Trimurtisan]

Silkies from @cra8ychix eggs.

 

[Trimurtisan]

Malay chick.

They've got duck necks!

And they sure are curious too.

 

[Trimurtisan]

This is the blue barnyard chick. Finally confirmed by biology lol. It has a straight comb.

Being it came from a white egg, I'm tempted to believe it was from Blossom, the 55F hen. She's barred, this chicks is not. That would make it female if it is hers.