Austrian Black Pine Update – Through a Wet Feb.

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Weather in northern California has been inordinately wet this year. Temperatures were unstable for a bit in February and had halted a great deal of re-potting. Anything I re-potted I would have to be protect from low temperatures and freezing so my plants did a lot of bonsai shuffle for a few weeks. Then, all the sudden, temperatures moderated into the 40/50+ range with no deep temperature drops in the evening This gave me the opportunity to step up the pace on re-potting pines and smaller trees that were starting to push buds.

Wet and cold February is more than usual this year. We had a week of near freezing and two days of actual freeze. That meant that tender trees had to be protected indoors.