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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #475 on: June 12, 2021, 03:08:25 PM »
Just a quick update regarding my plants. After my last post, I had a power outage at my house. My humidifier shut off and turned back on at 100% humidity for about 14 hours. My plants were sitting in plant saucers to catch excess water and they filled up with water and nearly drowned the plants. All the branches were completely soggy and branches were drooping from the weight of the water droplets.

The plants sucked up all the water in the saucers until the soil was 100% saturated and couldn’t suck up any more water.

I dumped out all the excess water from the saucers but the damage was done because of the saturated soil moisture levels and the lack of evaporation from the leaves for 14 hours.

This all happened a few days after I burned the leaves of the plant by accidentally allowing them to get too much direct sun.

The plants now have burned leaves and are showing extreme nutrient deficiencies due to the flushing of the soil that occurred when my humidifier malfunctioned.

I didn’t want to fertilize after they got drowned because I wanted to soil to dry up so I couldn’t fertilize until last week.

The plants are starting to look a little better now but still have burnt leaves and nutrient deficiencies which I’ll have to slowly dial in.

The good news is that my BlackPeak is finally starting to branch out.

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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #476 on: June 12, 2021, 08:24:38 PM »
Here is my update
AnHai 1 flushing above and below graft (verified new white root growth)



An Hai 2 flushing above graft



Biqi 1. Dead above graft. New sucker and buds



Biqi 2 woohoo. Just noticed new buds above graft line!



Black peak 1 budding below graft hope that doesn’t mean that above is dead although this one doesn’t look good above graft.



The others still look dormant but green wood so I am holding out hope.

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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #477 on: June 12, 2021, 11:13:32 PM »
I’ve been hoping to grow this. I’ve bought tons of seeds and they never sprouted. I heard they take about a year? I really want to buy a tree

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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #478 on: June 16, 2021, 10:20:26 AM »
Here’s an update of my Black Peak





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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #479 on: June 16, 2021, 02:00:04 PM »
An Hai










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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #480 on: June 16, 2021, 02:19:54 PM »
And Biqi





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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #481 on: June 16, 2021, 03:02:37 PM »
Very nice!!!

Looks like maybe all 4 varieties will be available over time.

Good luck everyone

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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #482 on: June 16, 2021, 03:05:59 PM »
Looking AMAZING Simon. Well done sir. My lone survivor, Biqi, is growing really slowly. What are you fertilizing with? How often? And what are you keeping humidity at? Thank you


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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #483 on: June 16, 2021, 09:54:13 PM »
Hey Nate,

I have my humidity set at 70% now. I plan on dropping it down by 5% every week until it reaches ambient humidity.

Ive been feeding it with Dyna Gro foliage pro 9-3-6. I use this because the research I did on Yangmei and emailing Marta suggested that too much Phosphorus may be detrimental to this plant. I do Not use it at full strength, I started off with on day 1 with approximately 250 ppm to rehydrate it and to initially wet the soil and on the first real watering after that, I bumped it up to around 400 ppm. The second real watering was at around 5-600 ppm and now it’s at about 900 ppm.

This is using the ppm 500 scale. How often I water/fertilize depends on when the soil dries up. I water/fertilize when there is about 20-30% moisture remaining in the soil.

The Biqi and Anh Hai have significantly more foliage and thus more evaporative surface so they now require significantly more watering than the Black Peak.

You can see how bad the leaves got burned and you can also see the extreme chlorosis caused by the flooding but it was significantly worse immediately after the event. The chlorotic leaves showed significant improvement after I dosed it with chelated Iron as you can see by comparing the older leaves to the newer leaves.

The longest branches on the Biqi and Anh Hai are approximately 5-6 inches long. This is new growth since I got the tree not including the old wood.

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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #484 on: June 17, 2021, 01:05:54 AM »
THANK YOU
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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #485 on: June 17, 2021, 04:49:34 PM »
I have had my head down germinating seeds and throwing away my dead ones missed this thread :-(

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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #486 on: June 17, 2021, 08:10:55 PM »
Hi,

For the 5 plants I bought the grafts are dead, rootstocks are alive. I did place them in a small GH for the humidity, mostly indirect sunlight and I didn't overwater.

I hope I will be able to buy scion in the future.



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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #487 on: June 18, 2021, 11:50:13 AM »



All I have so far.

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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #488 on: June 18, 2021, 07:23:24 PM »
Hey man a least you've got something ;) I'm bear still afraid to kick trunks :-\

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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #489 on: June 19, 2021, 11:25:59 AM »
Attention Nor-Cal dudes! Looks like Yangmei is on sell in your area, would love to hear a taste report if you can score some, or maybe an overnight sample sent to me ;) I would be super grateful and would be stoked to work out a deal, barter, throw you some cash, whatever....lemme know!

Peace,
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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #490 on: June 19, 2021, 12:12:24 PM »
Yeah, I’d be very interested in ordering some fruit to sample as well. Please message me. Thanks

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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #491 on: June 22, 2021, 12:45:28 PM »
Only Biqui is growing here.  I'm sending one to FL today Rob.


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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #492 on: June 22, 2021, 03:39:05 PM »
Oooooooo..........

You have done a wonderful job Brad!

So thankful and excited. Much gratitude.

Will be watching for FedEx from above, with my electric eye drone spy.
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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #493 on: June 23, 2021, 04:10:41 PM »
Biqi just dropped in, thanks again Brad and Kang! Expert shipping, she looks perfectly fine despite the heat wave.


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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #494 on: June 23, 2021, 07:22:52 PM »
Looks good

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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #495 on: June 23, 2021, 11:02:40 PM »
Biqi just dropped in, thanks again Brad and Kang! Expert shipping, she looks perfectly fine despite the heat wave.


It looks much better than mine, congrats!

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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #496 on: June 23, 2021, 11:04:48 PM »
Brad did an excellent job reviving those trees and I’m so glad it made it to you safely. It should grow well for you with the higher humidity in your neck of the woods.

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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #497 on: June 24, 2021, 12:03:33 AM »
well I killed 8 trees and saved 4 it looks like.  Not so great but not bad considering they sat in transit bare rooted for 2 weeks and usda gassed them. 
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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #498 on: June 24, 2021, 09:17:09 AM »
You did great. That's why I bought 8 trees, and all 4 varieties. Was thinking 25% survival rate would be acceptable and realistic.

3 out of 8 is not bad at all.

Just hope there's scions of all to go around.

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Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« Reply #499 on: June 24, 2021, 09:22:18 AM »
I think I had purchased about 12 trees and had 3 survivors, 2 Biqi and 1 AnHai.  It definitely looks like I could have done more like you, Brad, to have that rad success!  Although, for pretty passive inputs im stoked enough with the results
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