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Moving Temperate Trees to Sub-Tropical Climate

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Posted 8 years 8 months ago #20502
How's it going everyone? I'm completely new to the art of bonsai, having just started last year. I'm living in Cincinnati, Ohio and I've collected a fair amount of young trees so far: 2 unidentified pine species, 2 lilac suckers, and some sort of unidentified shrub (possibly mulberry?). I also have a few trees I've started growing from seeds: 6 autumn blaze maples, 2 mimosas, and 3 gala apple seedlings (2 of which are wilting horribly now).

Now, if all goes well with my job prospects, I'll be moving to Burbank, California sometime within the next 2 years. Burbank has a sub-tropical/Mediterranean climate, somewhere close to hardiness zone 10a, so I'm not sure how well my temperate plants will survive. The mimosas might be fine, but my biggest concern is that my other plants won't live long if they can't go dormant.

I don't have any sort of freezer large enough to store my trees in a simulated northern winter environment, though I've read that dormancy relies more on day length than temperature. Aside from this I'm just wondering if my trees can live at all, considering most of them only go up to hardiness zone 8.

If anyone has any suggestions or experience with this sort of situation, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks!
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Posted 8 years 8 months ago #20505
I would start working on tropicals instead of temperates, instead f thinking fridges. Grow species that doe well in your region. It is the least dificult route.
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Posted 8 years 8 months ago #20508

somewareman wrote: I don't have any sort of freezer large enough to store my trees in a simulated northern winter environment, though I've read that dormancy relies more on day length than temperature.


Not always. For apples it is temperature.

I did not know that, I Googled it:


"Low temperature, but not photoperiod, controls growth cessation and dormancy induction and release in apple and pear"
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Posted 8 years 8 months ago #20517

leatherback wrote: I would start working on tropicals instead of temperates, instead f thinking fridges. Grow species that doe well in your region. It is the least dificult route.


True, true... But I really like the trees I have, even though they haven't had much work put into them yet. I don't want to get rid of them unless absolutely necessary.
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Posted 8 years 8 months ago #20519
Seems you don't have much choice, my friend. Take them with, and see what happens. Don't leave them in a hot car during travels. Find a shaded spot out of the wind once you're there. Let them acclimate for a week or two. Get in touch with a Cali bonsai club.
They'll probably do fine.

If all else fails (a) give to a friend as goodbye gift or (b) learn some new species. Rock and Hard place. World still turns. ;)

Good luck
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