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| Randy's seed grown Buckeyes |
by Michael Rusnak
At
the ACBS May
meeting our own
Randy Pepper brought in a group of young buckeye trees that that he
had raised over the past
couple of seasons from collected seeds.
Randy gave the buckeyes to
members who were willing to give them a try.
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| Several of the umbrella shaped three year seedlings |
He discussed some
of the experiments he has done with them, observing, for example how they respond to pruning along the trunk. A few started look like
cool and exotic literati projects.
Though
not a traditional
subject for bonsai, the tall lanky growth pattern of Ohio's signature native tree might lend itself to the literati style at some point. It will be fun to see
what people come up with and maybe have an
Ohio Buckeye or two
in one of our future exhibits.
