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| I have three Royal Empress trees going into their second year. These trees are Hybrids,I've cut them flush to the ground as suggested. They are now starting to produce the new growth. I'm supposed to nip off the little sprouts and leave only the dominant to grow. My question is can the other smaller sprouts be removed in such a way that a new growth tree can be created. Hybrids are cloned all the time but I don't know how and my current efforts have failed. |
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- Posted by dan_staley 5b/SS 2b AHS 6-7 (My Page) on Wed, Apr 27, 11 at 22:54
| Why would you want more of this tree?!?!?!? Dan |
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| The companies use tissue culture to create vast quantities to sell. You can utilize root cuttings for your own small quantity needs. |
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- Posted by toronado3800 Z6 St. Louis (My Page) on Wed, Apr 27, 11 at 22:25
| Be careful. That one is listed as invasive in many states. Means even your conservation department might not want you to plant it. Assuming you are someplace it is not invasive: What do you mean as hybrid? Is it a sexually reproduced tree or a cutting or graft? |
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| This may be one of the few trees that actually has as much hate as the callery pear on this forum. Good luck with advice with cloning! I honestly have no knowledge to help you out with what you are looking to do. |
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| If they are hybrids, what are they hybrids of? In any event, I think they'll probably root well in triclopyr. Just buy some brush-b-gon concentrate, mix 50/50 with water, and place the cuttings in that. Also, treat the freshly cut stumps with this for best performance. |
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| If you're growing this tree only for the single season lush growth of large leaves, then I'm not sure what the advantage would be of reproducing the hybrid (actually I'm unsure what advantage the hybrid has over Paulownia species in general, except in terms of marketing). Paulownia seeds are readily available, germinate easily and grow rapidly. Young trees will flower in as little as two to three years, assuming winter temps don't go below zero (which kills the buds). For growing more of the hybrid by root cuttings or other means, you're probably aware of potential but unlikely issues of plant patent infringement for a home grower. |
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- Posted by TreeNightmare none (My Page) on Sat, Jan 28, 12 at 23:08
| I LOVED it when this tree showed up as a volunteer (for the first two years) since it brought great shade to my back yard, produced gorgeous huge leaves that I used to make sculptures, and blossomed with pretty flowers. Then I started getting concerned since it quickly became HUGE-- 30 feet in less than three years. I began pollarding the branches way before then, which helped for a while even IF it was a ton of work. (I LOVED having nice firestarting sticks at first.) Yet, by year three, the concrete drainage system aiming away from my house and the nearby sidewalk started erupting a bit. I wasn't hugely concerned until year four, when the slight crack expanded and the drainage/sidewalk in my yard started raising by several INCHES. It seemed that an arboreal King Kong had started trashing my yard. The final straw was year 4.5 when my bathroom shower developed a VERY sluggish drain as the very warm winter began (the drain in that part of the house aims right towards the tree). The lack of typically-cold weather seemed to encourage the tree to continue growing. Fearing I'd have to dig a new sewer line was the issue convincing me that this toddler of a tree needed to go. (Let's hear it for chainsaws!) So now the tree is gone and I'm starting the battle to kill the roots. My hope is that I haven't destroyed the sewage line....only time will tell. You should make your own decisions. If this WASN'T sited near a house that seemed to be facing potential damage, it might have survived my wrath and continued filtering the air with its huge leaves...oh well! |
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