was Lowering the water table in pots; now onco seedlings

Rimmer deVries rdevries@comcast.net
Tue, 20 Oct 2015 18:12:21 PDT
Bob
Any screen or hardware cloth works. 1/4 hardware cloth seems to be the best but I have accumulated many of these band pots with all sorts of bottom screens from the local NARGS .  Chapter sales and plant venders. But if you use a coarse mix like rotted pine bark and turface you don't need a bottom screen if you pack it against the Anderson bottom flat. For most mixes after the initial watering in, I find the mix stays in the band pot without a screen unless a tree root moves in from below. and empties the pot when you pull it up. 

Rimmer

> On Oct 20, 2015, at 8:34 PM, penstemon <penstemon@Q.com> wrote:
> 
> how old are these seedlings?
> Rimmer,
> They’re from your seed (thanks), and I didn’t cut them right away, so not a year old, I think. 
> I find a difference in vigor between species, but no difference in tolerating summer water, if growing in perlite. 
> I’m now wondering if the in vitro method would not be the best way to go, rather than cutting. 
> Bob
> p.s. Just got a big box of Anderson tree bands delivered to my front door. Now for the fun of cutting little squares of screen and pushing the screen down to the bottom of the pots. 
> If I’m not mistaken, Beaver Creek used to use a much heavier screen which I suppose could be glued onto the bottom of the pot, in the center, avoiding spending an hour pushing one screen down into a pot. 
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