#97
Seedling of:
"Purple Nebula"
"Purple Nebula"
Germinated:
2021-04-02
2021-04-02
Planted out in spring 2022. Seems to have very frost-tender stems but has nevertheless grown back from the roots every year.
This tree does not have any grafts on it.
This tree has not yet been successfully cloned
All updates:
(September 24, 2026) Update -- Still going, even regrew from above the soil line for once.
(January 26, 2026) Update -- Showing quite a bit of damage, not fully killed to ground level.
(October 30, 2025) Not dead -- Prematurely marked this one dead.
(January 5, 2025) Grafted -- Just grafted with Poncho.
(December 13, 2024) Update -- Bit of freeze damage from barely below 31°F recently, this probably really should be grafted over in spring.
(August 29, 2024) Update -- Regrew with decent vigor from below the soil line.
(January 17, 2024) Freeze update -- The graft looks mostly ok, but both this rootstock and the second one look pretty dead.
(photo taken January 15, 2024)
(January 15, 2024) Frost protection -- Covered with a loosely fitting and leaky/torn cloth frost cover for the current freeze, but it does have a 32w LED grow light inside for warmth and light. Sensor shows only a couple degrees warmer than outside, though.
(October 26, 2023) Report -- The Northrop graft re-grew nicely this summer, and there's also a small rootstock branch.
(photo taken June 16, 2023)
(photo taken June 16, 2023)
(photo taken April 13, 2023)
(photo taken November 18, 2022)
(photo taken March 22, 2022)
(photo taken February 20, 2022)
(photo taken November 26, 2021)