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Offline BowEd

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Re: Yew leaves still growing?
« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2013, 10:26:02 pm »
We've always called it here that the sprouts were suckling off of the moisture of the mother plant yet.Practically all trees do that.Bryce is smart giving the tip an enzyme boost with that root riot to get it started,but that 5 year old plants' got a long way to go.......LOL.Better late than never though .Way to go Bryce.
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Re: Yew leaves still growing?
« Reply #16 on: June 30, 2013, 06:42:49 am »
I got a Yew haul a fe months back where a big old Yew was pollarded. I cut a load of shoots and stuck 'em in an old builders bag of compost that I'd tried to grow peas in last year... snails got 'em all. Don't think snails will eat the Yew.
Didn't bother with rooting compound or such like. OUr UK Yew is tough, it don't need no sissy chemicals ;) (or maybe I'm just a cheapskate... yeah, that'll be it :laugh: )
http://bowyersdiary.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/yew-shoots-as-cuttings.html
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Pissing into the watering can and then topping it up with rainwater brings plants along nicely. Saves takin' your boots off and going indoors too >:D
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Offline BowEd

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Re: Yew leaves still growing?
« Reply #17 on: June 30, 2013, 10:13:56 am »
Your a country boy at heart....I like that.
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