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- From: ja@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.bonsai
- Subject: Re: blue spruce
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.130719.1893@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 13:07:19 -0500
- References: <MAPPLER.92Nov16200907@titan.ucc.umass.edu>
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- In article <MAPPLER.92Nov16200907@titan.ucc.umass.edu>, mappler@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Matthew A Appler) writes:
- > A friend of mine wants to know if it is possible to have a blue spruce
- > bonsai.... Has anyone everydone this or know if this is possible?
- >
- Yes, it can be done. Not an easy tree though. From my landscaping and bonsai
- (one spruce for 2 years) is that they don't take pruning and pinching well.
- They can also be finicky about soil moisture and pH. I could only get mine
- healthy for short periods; it finally died when I left it under a friends care
- for 3 months :-(
-
- The blue and native New England green spruces are the toughest. Don't even
- think about a Norweigian spruce, those things die when you just think about
- pruning. Someone will probably post their great success with spruces and all
- my experience was just a bad case of black thumb.
-
- bye............ John ja@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
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