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Resurrect a dying grass tree
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Posted by navy_blue VIC AUST (My Page) on Sun, Jan 1, 06 at 8:07
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I have a dying grass tree. I have tried seasol, tried more water, less water, cutting back the leaves nothing works?
Heard u can "burn them". How exactly do you do this? What else can i try to keep it alive. It is in a pot and always has been, too scated to tickle the roots and kill into to put it in the ground.
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RE: Resurrect a dying grass tree
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| Grass trees do not like their feet wet. You always find them growing in dry rocky or sandy soils. Hence if you have it planted in a situation where winter waterlogging is a reality (and it has not been there for to long) then create a nice high sandy mound and replant it. Grantic sand would be ideal. As for burning them - a paint stripper that runs off LPG would do the trick. Give the foilage a blast but not the centre of the crowns - if you burn these to badly you may end up killing the buds. |
RE: Resurrect a dying grass tree
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| The problem with granitic sand in Melbourne is that these days it is full of clay. |
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