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| Granted this is only one plant but it was near perfection.
- Nice 5 gallon pot of roots
Based off my first experience, highly recommended. As a side note for northerners, be aware of the nursery location as to when you buy and what you buy from a zone perspective.
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Here is a link that might be useful: FP Link
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| Pleasant experiences with online retailers can be quite the surprise these days it seems! It seems to me Fantastic Plants transfers the shipping cost to the retail price for their plants making shipping cheap but the individual plants pricier than other places. This was the case for the plants I was interested in anyways. Hey, no complaints if they offer something you can't find other places and/or the product shipped is a quality specimen :D Do you have any pics of the root system? John ps - here is a pic of a sugar maple cultivar I received from a different online nursery that many despise here. It was literally the ONLY online source I could find for this tree. I was shocked how good the roots looked. Not 1 single circling root! pss - the pic is mainly to provide encouragement for bboy that some growers are taking care of the root systems as they grow :)
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Thu, Nov 15, 12 at 20:07
| HEY.. WHAT IS IT??? .. oops ... is that a dead ginkgo leaf???? seems like a big tree for a small root mass ... but then.. the pic doesnt look like 5 gal size.. maybe an optical delusion ... why take delivery now???? ken |
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| I hear ya...it looks like a gallon root mass but its 5 gallon for sure. It weights 13 pounds! Tree is about 4.5' tall excluding roots. I picked it up now since the shipping was $5! From a total perspective it was $45 less than the other guy. Song Sparrow wanted $75 for a 1 gallon plant, it was a 1 year graft! I'll snap a pic on Saturday when I plant it. John, good example of spreading the roots. I usually have good luck with Acer to tell you the truth. What cultivar you have there? Any concern with that graft union? |
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| The tree is 'Sandersville' aka Harvest Moon. Reportedly has good orange fall color, vigorous growth and very heat tolerant. We will see ;) As far as the graft union, it appears almost identical to a swamp white oak I culled last year. This particular cultivar is reproduced by grafting as well as by cuttings. If I had to guess, I would say that this is a cutting that had a stem cut off and what I have now is a secondary shoot growth. That was the conclusion reached in the SWO topic and I think that is the case here. I am certainly not the best to spot the difference but it doesn't look anything like the grafts on my other trees like crabapples and 'Keith Davey' pistache. I plan to post pics sometime in the future and seek advice with how to handle it. I think the stub left from pruning the leader needs to be lowered to assist in encapsulation for sure. I tried to find the oak topic but was unsuccessful and it is past my bedtime. I'll try to find it tomorrow. Thanks for the interest :) John |
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| looks like they have nice variety of plants, though don't know about their name in all red and vampire like |
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| whaas, That is a NICE looking Ginkgo. I'm glad to hear that they do in fact have first quality plants. They are close enough to John and I for next day shipping and that certainly appeals to me. One thing I'm curious about, in another thread you said it was 'Blagon', but I didn't find those anywhere on the FP website. I may order a Blue Atlas Cedar from them, if something happens to the one I planted this fall. I was FAR from thrilled with the root system. Everything above ground was great, but those pesky little facts below ground can be awful as we all know. John, Arktrees |
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| Thanks guys! 'Blagon' is also marketed as Goldspire. That is how FP lists the cultivar on their site. |
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| I've been skeptical about this cultivar. Most sites show the same stock photo of a very tight, dense, yellow Ginkgo that appears to have been sheared. Some sites even suggest shearing the tree back the first 3-4 years. I'd like to see a picture of an unsheared, naturally grown specimen. I wonder how much it differs from 'Mayfield' or other fastigiate forms. The branch angle on your tree already looks wider than a potential 5-6 ft wide tree would have. Your tree looks good. I've purchased from the this seller before and had decent results. |
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