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Does your expertise include hawthorn? Our hedge had about 5 blossoms on last year. What's the deal?

 

It's horny

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Sorreh xD

One track mind me 0.o

 

Well.
Poor flowering can be attributed to a few things.
Most commonly and is the first I look at (if there are no obvious factors - contamination, Pests, poor season etc) is the possibility of a nutrient deficiency.

Potassium being the main nutrient used within a plant for fruiting and flowering.
There are other macro and many micro nutrients that if deficient may impact flowering.

If by some chance the pH of the soil was altered that year then the nutrient availability itself would be greatly diminished.

Then other factors may be looked at..

Apart from the poor flowering are there any other notable things about it... discoloured leaves, Leaves that have been eaten, etc etc)

 

Could it be due to a particularly mild winter? The first winter I was here was fairly -20 ish, but then our landlord came and butchered the hedge right at the start of spring. The following winter, 2007-2008, was rarely below freezing, and then the poor blossoming like I said. It's not been cut since the last time. No more disease and bugs than any other hedge really.

Also, we have dreadlocks *phew, hopefully no-one noticed that almost had nothing to do with dreads*

 

It could be that it was too severely cut back especially if its not regularly cut back.
I class hawthorn as a tree and have never severely coppiced one myself however they are coppiced as part of woodland maintenance.

I shall check my books if you wish?

The hawthorns hear didn't have any fruit on them this year when we went out seed collecting... No signs that it had even flowered.

I'd see how she grows this year.
Fertalising could also be particularly beneficial.
Even a natural mulch would increase the Nitrogen content which would inturn help the general health/vigour of the tree..
But make sure it is well decomposed... Fresh mulches can take the nitrogen fixing bacteria out of the soil temporarily rendering the soil defficient!

Reet... bath time...
But i will be back

 

Thanks Mabster. I'll wait and see what it does this spring. Will check my own gardening books too. Now that I'm cultivating the soil some of the benefits may seep to the hedge anyway. Was looking forward to the birds having this nice hedge full of berries for winter after asking the landlord to leave the hedge care to us, and was well gutted with the measly 6 it produced.

 

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I am getting addcited to this thread.... been on since 8pm, I keep checking for updates.... only stopping to watch 24 on tv.... My name is Phil and Im a dreadlock-forum-a-hol-ic...

 

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Shame its a bit slow atm *sigh*

 

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nope, this forum has my attention, along with me trying to think of a new name for my band

 

OH er..

I've always liked black ice as a name for a band

 

well we were called Decibel Damage, but our vocalist says its shit lol

 

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