Apprentice Session 8: Pot up those Pines

This week spring has sprung full force in Lake County. Temperatures have been way up - hitting the mid 80s! Unfortunately, there is still alot of work at the nursery that should have been done during dormancy. But now there are buds, flowers and candles everywhere.

Today I was working on up-potting some more of the white pine/black pine grafts. Because they don't like their roots messed with outside of dormancy, there was not alot we could do except try to loosen up the root ball a bit and then slip them into the next larger size pot. Hopefully next winter we will get back to these and work on the roots a little more aggressively. I didn't take any pics of the process, as it's pretty much the same process I outlined previously.

I had to take off early, because of a meeting I had to attend at the hospital. So that was all I got done that day. However, my parents came in to visit that weekend, and I brought them over to meet Brent and see the place. They liked it - and even bought a few trees.