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Hi guys,
I have been reading a book and articles about growing Christmas trees, Nordman Firs. We would want to do it without all the chemicals. I have read they don't like salt and was wondering what experience other people had with using seaweed with them as a mulch and a soil conditioner. We have an allotment here in Cornwall and use a lot of seaweed as the soil is quite clay in places and pretty stony too! Great results with fruit and veg, but don't want to kill off the Firs.We also have chickens and friends with alpacas, so plenty of manure to dig in too.
Thanks!
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Growing Christmas trees
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Phae
, 03 Apr 2016 10:27
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Posted 03 April 2016 - 14:18
bramblebasher
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Phae if you've done well with fruit trees then I think you'll do great with Firs! Conifers are some of the hardiest trees around, manure the soil, ph it, put down landscape fabric if your not fancying the weeding, cut a small cross (or better yet use a blow torch to make a hole in it,) plant your baby tree and off you go. These are some of the least fussy organisms on the planet.
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Posted 03 April 2016 - 21:50
adrian007
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what PH do they like? we are about 5.5 mostly
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Posted 04 April 2016 - 16:21
bramblebasher
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Anywhere between 5 and 6.5 is going to grow you a good tree. Ideal ph levels for each specific species lies somewhere within these levels.
Adrian you are bang on with your soil PH.
Hope it's all going well for you.
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Posted 04 April 2016 - 18:46
adrian007
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Hi BB
Yes, planted 1000 willows from a neighbours tree trimmings a few weeks back... could have crried on, but lost faith (that is. I lost sufficient faith to not want to go out in gails and horizontal rain.
Anyway, the dog knocked one out over the weekend and it has roots! And, some of the trimmings were rooting just from the ground... so another 300 in yesterday and more later in the week after my current employers have 'terminated' me, which looks on the cards for the end of the tax year! Ho hum, it's an ill wind!
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 16:50
bramblebasher
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Nature is just amazing innit. Each cell of a plant holding the capability of turning into an entire new plant! Willows are notoriously willing to live, incredible to see those roots appearing from the bark.
Tissue culture is amazing, they take a plant leaf/branch, whizz it up with agar solution then put it under ideal conditions, the slurry then turns into thousands and thousands of plants.
This year I plan on setting up a large aeroponic cutting rooter, agar culture is beyond me at this point and probably left to the labs.
Sorry to hear you've been terminated Adrian!
