Wollemi Pine Living Fossil from Australia

Mr. John Johnson made me aware of the recently discovered, Wollemi Pine, from Australia. It existed during the time of the dinosaurs and is a so-called "living fossil". Sometime later, I learned that Mr. Brown of Blossom Berry Nursery, Clarksville, AR had a specimen. My wife and I made a special trip to see the rare plant. Mr. Brown gave us an impromptu lecture in his green house.

The first tune is called the Bard of Armagh (aka Streets of Laredo). I don't remember the name of the second tune, the third tune was a base line that I made up for another project.

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[037981]

I'm not trying to tell you what to do but I haven't watered it I haven't cut it the only thing I did do was put at ina bigger pot with some Australia native soil and some high-quality mulch and it's been outside the day i got it I had for about a year and a half cost me $80

[than217]

I keep it in a south window of my house so it gets the most amount of light year round. And I water it just before sunrise so the water can evaporate throughout the day. No excess water is key. But yeah DO NOT transplant from its original pot, those tiny pots they come in work just fine. Every time I have transplanted they always die because the newer soil stays wet just a little too long around the old soil. Maybe after a year or two you can transplant it but only once it's matured.

[than217]

I got mine from National Geographic and raised them inside, luckily Nat Geo hasn't charged me for the two that died. Third time's a charm!

What I've found is that watering is everything. I water once every 5 to 7 days. I have NOT transplanted it from its original pot, every time I transplanted it to a new pot it died within a week. When trimming dab alcohol onto the cut. If the leaves are yellow with black spots it means you've watered too much and it WILL die no matter what. Root rot.

[laughingnow99]

May I ask if it died indoors, or outdoors - just curious as mine is still going fine. My friend has one indoors and it looks a bit unhappy at the moment - maybe too dry. Where have you got yours ?

[than217]

The only question is, how do you make them not die? I've owned three now and done quite a bit of work trying to simply keep them alive and every time BOOM disease, dead. BOOM too much water, dead. I can kind of see why there are less than 100 of them in the wild...

[I1IxcpEP]

Punctuation old boy, please

[123houghto456]

hey mate i live near were the wolami pine trees live peaple get flown in with helercopters i found out i lived so close 2

2day think its amazing i learnt about them in sience i the trees i was learning about r from around my region but they were all over the place lol