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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Summer 2025

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The project is still alive. Barely, but alive. Sequoias keep dying after they grow above 6 feet. Some survive the loss of the top and major ...
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Friday, December 22, 2023

Micro update - more germinations

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In this batch there are 2013, 2020 and a few seeds collected from King Canyon in 2022. All seeds continue to germinate splendidly. Seeds wer...
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Saturday, December 16, 2023

Winter 2023/24 Update

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 Long overdue update. Last winter was bad for sequoias at this Iowa farm. All sequoias taller than 2 feet got destroyed. Shorter ones that f...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Some thoughts ahead of the winter

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Here is my reply to a comment under the last post: " Buddy, you're awesome! I live in Nebraska (your neighbor) and I'm so scare...
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Monday, May 30, 2022

2022 late spring update

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It’s almost summer in Iowa and the life on the sequoia farm is slowly waking up. To be clear, life beyond sequoias woke up a long time ago. ...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Velcro garden straps are not good for trees

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I noticed a problem with one of my sequoias in August: Aug 11, 2021 P2.OR8 First, I removed the pressure on the trunk by untying the velcro ...
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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

More detailed sequoia update

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It is getting a bit harder to keep track of the sequoias as the time goes by. The plastic labels occasionally get lost, trees grow and make ...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Summer 2021 update

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Hard to believe but it's already August. This year is exceptionally good for sequoias in Iowa. It is not very hot nor too humid to cause...
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Saturday, May 1, 2021

Winter 2020/21 results

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The 2021 growing season is about to kick in high gear. There are already hints of the new growth on the surviving sequoias. In this report I...
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Friday, January 1, 2021

Happy New Year 2021

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The new year has arrived with a foot of snow. It's a great news for the sequoias. This is a very short update with temperature reporting...
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