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what i will be doing differently after the clem trip is the folllowing
1. more hard pruning mid july (now) of all type 3's, not just ones who look poorly. and hard prune to ground vs a few inches.
2. add chipped gravel, not pea gravel, to my soil mixture. up to 20%.
3. continuing with my 18 inch deep holes but use a bulb planting auger on a drill at the bottom to work some amendments into the bottom of the hole before starting to back fill. they use some amazing big hole planting augers out there, this is my take on how to adapt better practices easily NOW to my garden.
4. I had never given much thought to the 45% angle when planting a clem, as I thought i had understood from the threads that the purpose is to have the clem stem emerge on an angel to the trellis. after finding out this is one of deb fishers methods and WHY it is a better method, i am switching over completely to this for vining and non species clems. the reason is not for the stem emergence angle. that may very well be straight up to the sun anyway...it is so that the roots along the top, closer to the surface will produce multiple crowns, or produce them much sooner, which will produce more stems and vines and flowers and even be dividable at some point if you wanted to. i am not looking to divide unless needed, but def looking for more stem, more vines, more flowers. multiple crowns mean more protection too in event of demise of the original crown. once i fully understood the reason, which was never explained this way on the forum on the postings i read. i know deb fisher has shared the angle planting with others, which is how it seeped out into the clem knowledge here on the forum.
5. stop the use of sand as a horticultural amendment. clay plus sand makes cement. hit me like a ton of bricks.
tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my clem life...
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