Hey, I must have slept through September to miss this post!

Barrie, what a beauty.
I've been interested too, and went as far as getting an import permit re Australia.

Haven't got the one from Oz yet.
Tired of waiting, and happy to get one from Lori too!

It'll be here any day.

We can compare notes...and soil...and kindergarten, and grade 1... 😆
Great pics of a superb plant!
Barb

that is a great looking tree. I will do a little research on these.

oppalm, you'll get so engrossed in the research (as I did), that you simply MUST have one!
These go back to the age of the dinosaurs, along with cycads and ginkgos...so very cool. 8)
Barb

My Wollemia nobilis arrived! 🙂
As always, Jurassic Plants Nursery supplied a great specimen, well wrapped and packaged, arriving in great shape.
I'm the dummy, though, who carried it upside down (aaargh!).

Here finally is mine (thanks Lori):

Bark is already turning woody. Mature trees have BUBBLY bark that looks like boiling chocolate!

"Coppicing" evident. The literature states the ability to grow multiple trunks "...may have evolved as a defense against drought, fire or rock-fall in the steep canyons where it grows in the wild, thereby ensuring its survival." It can be grown as a single stemmed tree by pruning off coppiced branches, or a bushier shrubby form. Bubbly bark starting? Cool!

Barb

Internet literature for the Wollemi is increasing!
There was very little two years ago.

Fertilizer: recommended low (or no) phosphorous.
6-0-6 was recommended by several sites.
Acid soil.

Apparently a sure way to kill a Wollemi is to overwater it, especially when it's not actively growing.

Barb

While I don't want to take any cuttings yet, this is interesting:
No wonder these things have been around for multi-million years!
Barb

http://www.cababstractsplus.org/google/abstract.asp?AcNo=20053170353

How is everyones pines doing?

Barrie, did you plant yours in the ground?

Not yet Wes, next spring perhaps. I did pot it up to a 2 gallon container and left it in the unheated greenhouse.
Cheers, Barrie.

Mine seems fine.
It's at a north window in a cool bedroom.
When it's above zero, I set it outside for the day.

Not watering it, but misting once a week.

Barb

Very delicate looking...

Barb

Awesome Barb ! ... yours look like mine at the moment. I was just around this afternoon admiring it's new flush. Glad to see yours has started and seems happy. 🙂

Cheers, Barrie.

tks Barrie.

I find it very interesting how the leaf portions attach to the stem.
Soft new growth on which the dinosaurs used to dine. 🙂

Barb

Man I wish I'd known that watering them while they where not growing would kill them.

👿 🙁

Yours died?
I'd put it outdoors in a shady spot. I hope it'll recover.
Barb