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Botany The Acacia Grow Thread

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Man, that's some insane hail bro. Sorry to hear about your trees, hopefully lots of new growth ensues. Cheers for the update!
 
@acacian that is wild having hail this late in summer. I think it was more than 10 years ago that happened to my garden, it's absolutely gutting. Wishing your plants a speedy recovery.

My last plants all died off the start of spring on me then I found I hid my seeds too well. That left me getting an early start on an autumn planting.

This time no problems at all with germination I have a few through already after only planting them a few days ago.

This time I've gone with 50% native soil (sand etc), 30% cactus mix, 15% pumice, 5% seed raising mix with 50/50 vermiculite.

I ve planted totally 72 acuminata I'll wait for spring to plant the floribunda because I don't have many of those seeds left.

My thoughts on care for winter are too have a few trays under the frost cloth with the cactus garden, a few trays in the glass house , and the remainder inside.
 

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Couple of update pics. White Willow's main stem has divided into five whilst mucronata keeps getting taller and taller (82cm from the ground). Up-potting to commence in a few weeks!
 

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@Phyllode_Pickler great so see some of your babies coming up! Looking forward to seeing their growth to come!

@CheeseCat, your plants look vibrant and beautiful. Great work.. lovely to see someone growing white willow as well as mucronata. I’m perplexed why more people aren’t cultivating mucronata.. it’s clearly a very special plant. Did any of the tops of your willow get eaten? Insect damage would promote outwards growth like that as it’s a natural prune.. many of mine were similar although in my case was caused by frost.

I’m skiing overseas atm but updated in the next week :)
 
“Insect damage is a natural prune” I like that! I hadn't considered insect damage. I'm curious to see how it develops, hopefully nice and bushy!

I’m perplexed why more people aren’t cultivating mucronata.. it’s clearly a very special plant.
Totally, it’s fast growing has a beautiful form and pests don’t seem that interested in it! (so far).

Enjoy the skiing, sounds epic!

Forgot to share a pic of oxycedrus :)
 

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Awesome! Lovely species.. will be interested to see how fast yours grow. Mine have been very slow compared to other species.. I suspect they aren’t a fan of the soil up here.
 
It's impressive how big wattles can get in a small tube. Finally started to up-pot my seedlings and was pleasantly surprised to see nodules around the roots. I'll post a few more photos once they're all sorted...

How's everyone else going with their plants? :)
 

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I was thinking it was about time to post some pics, I even had a couple come up in cactus pots recently. I'll try to get some photos up this weekend.

I'm also running a couple of tests on the dead plants from my first attempt, purely for interest to see if they had started to developed anything.

Your plants are looking very good cheesecat, I'm very surprised to see how big they got in the small pots.
 
Here is mine, no more popped after I put them outside,I didn't think they were growing very fast but looking back on the last run I think they are moving along nicely.

I did have to laugh when I started seeing seeds pop in the cactus pots from last years recycled soil.
 

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It's impressive how big wattles can get in a small tube. Finally started to up-pot my seedlings and was pleasantly surprised to see nodules around the roots. I'll post a few more photos once they're all sorted...

How's everyone else going with their plants? :)
Indeed! I see plants at work getting well over a meter tall in hiko cells which are about an 1/8th the width of those 140mm ones in your pics. BY that point fairly root bound of cours ebut they'll still be right once they're in the ground..
 
I did have to laugh when I started seeing seeds pop in the cactus pots from last years recycled soil.
I had a seedling come up in my cactus garden too and it's actually growing quite well. No idea what it is though! :)

Here is mine, no more popped after I put them outside,I didn't think they were growing very fast but looking back on the last run I think they are moving along nicely.
That's good to hear. I always try to give mine as much light as possible to maximise growth.
 
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