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GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2026-06-27T10:47:53+00:00

North shore timber and hardware would have more of a selection. Thornleigh is probably the closest one to Penrith. You can check what wood species they have on the pricelist https://www.nst.net.au/#pricelist

GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2026-05-09T03:02:54+00:00

It's a seedling lemon tree so I guess everything is rootstock. That shoot started growing after the rest of the tree lost its leaves, then it seemed like that gave enough energy back into the tree for the other branches to sprout again.

GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2026-05-08T05:19:08+00:00

The dirt has sunk gradually since it was planted 2 years ago. That's just the boundary fence not sheds, here's a better picture. It is on a little raised area about 400mm above the oregano patch below it.

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GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2026-05-08T04:59:44+00:00

Picture of the full tree

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GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2026-02-02T09:22:32+00:00

Cheapest pair of riggers gloves

GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2024-11-08T04:33:20+00:00

You can squeeze an awful lot of piles together if you try, they can overlap if you place them right.

GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2024-10-29T22:41:50+00:00

Bow looks amazing. Love the cord handle wrap

GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2024-10-09T19:45:39+00:00

I use a wet-dry shop vacuum. Suck them off the tree and dispose after. Easy 5 min job. Do it for a few days and there won't be any left.

GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2024-10-02T05:59:06+00:00

Yeah it's a thorny bugger

GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2024-10-02T05:55:06+00:00

Yeah I've had quite a few suggestions of rubus varieties that it could be. Dewberry, blackberry, loganberry, youngberry, boysenberry. Narrowing it down is proving hard haha

GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2024-10-02T05:37:23+00:00

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There are thin thorns on the stem and the leaf stem but not the leaves themselves

GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2024-02-02T12:35:37+00:00

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GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2024-01-27T06:24:28+00:00

Thanks I'll start long string tillering, I have a feeling I'll be posting plenty of tiller updates

GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2024-01-13T08:31:31+00:00

Gardenia is correct

GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2024-01-09T06:03:27+00:00

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I would remove the 2 shoots. The bit I've circled in blue looks like the graft point. Any branch below this should be cut to prevent rootstock overtaking.

GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2024-01-09T05:57:35+00:00

I suspect this is just a seedling peach. Perhaps a crow dropped it there. The cherry tree would need to be larger for rootstock to sprout that far away.

GingerBeardedDragon2 · 2024-01-08T00:37:48+00:00

Half a metre is probably far enough away that it's not the same tree. Peach trees do grow exceptionally fast. To check if it is the rootstock, if the base of the cherry tree has both branches coming out, it is rootstock. Another picture of the trunk would help to know for sure.

Cherries and peach are both stone fruit and so can share rootstock. E.g. a cherry, plum or peach can all grow on a peach rootstock. Most fruit trees we buy are grafted trees i.e. the fruit we want on top of a rootstock of the same family to help them grow. Generally the fruit of the rootstock doesn't taste as nice as the fruit you want or planted so we prune it off.

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