Does anyone on this forum grow 'Galle's Choice'?

There is a very good chance this is a cross of caledulaceum X colemanii.

John Perkins
Salem, NH

 

Unknown Name :(
 
Hi!
This is a picture of one of my mum's hundred azaleas. (we counted!)
We have never known the name as it's sooo old! it is over 1.5 meters tall.
I was wondering if you could identify the name of it so we can label it for good?
 
 
 
 
Kind Regards,
Madison
from Geelong, VIC, Australia

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FWIW, I've had an unidentified azalea that looks like that for many
years and, traveling around, I was always on the lookout for a similar
one.  Whereas most of the time you go for a long time (forever??)
without finding a match, the reverse happened and I found matches TOO
easily.  This flower seems to be of a pattern that has been released
(escaped?) into the trade many times under a variety of names.  GLT,
Bill's plant, is one.  Kunimitsu (in the Nanney's garden) is another.
Larry Martin's 'By Metal Fence' is a third and I've seen others.  Maybe
leaf type and bloom time can be differentiators, but without that info
things are even more of a guess than normally.
     Barry

William C. Miller III wrote:
>
> [Attachment(s) <#TopText> from William C. Miller III included below]
>
> Hi Madi,
>
> It looks very much like 'George Lindley Taber'.  Compare your image
> with the attached image.
>
> William C. Miller III
> Bethesda, Maryland
> www.theazaleaworks.com
>
>
> Madi Stroomer wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Unknown Name :(
>>
>> Hi!
>> This is a picture of one of my mum's hundred azaleas. (we counted!)
>> We have never known the name as it's sooo old! it is over 1.5 meters
>> tall.
>> I was wondering if you could identify the name of it so we can label
>> it for good?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Madison
>> from Geelong, VIC, Australia
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Let us find your next place for you! Need a place to rent, buy or
>> share? <http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157631292/direct/01/>
>

Hi All!
     Winter weather can be a pain, personally, but in terms of my azaleas
I can't think of any real loss of plants due to cold (some rare
frost-heave or bark split, but otherwise no big deal).  For me, losses
occur in mid-summer with long droughts and temps in the upper 90s.
That's when small plants kick the bucket.
     That said, if winter puts a stress on your plants and you need to
protect them you might want to note that the east looks colder and
snowier than normal from mid-January to the end of February in some
long-range forecasts I've read.  Yes, I waste too much time with stuff
like PDO, QBO, NAO and the pattern we all know: El Nino.  I just think
it's fun, but don't confuse long-range forecasts with science.  It's all
just good guesses, primarily built around pattern matching (for example,
the year ____ looked just like this year, so the weather will be the
same going forward.)
     That all being said, most of the forecasts are in surprising
agreement.  For my area of the country (the Middle-Atlantic states)
December looks to be average to warmer-than-average, January and
February look colder than average and March may be warmer than average.
Snow totals will be somewhat above average.  If that's the case I am
expecting bloom time to be about on-time or slightly early and the bloom
amount should be good (April 30th is about my peak, 10 mi south of DC).
     As I said, don't confuse these forecasts with science, but if you'd
like to read about them in excruciating detail, check out the 2 links below:

http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showtopic=211108

http://www.examiner.com/x-3775-Houston-Weather-Examiner~y2009m10d30-WEATHERAmeri\
ca--NORTH-AMERICA-WINTER-SEASON-OUTLOOK-120109--033110

     Barry

Hmm.

'Kinimitsu' is documented as hose-in-hose with irregular doubling,
strong purplish red with white center.

Pictures from Joe Coleman's garden seem to match that, at
<http://www.pbase.com/azaleasociety/image/57541270>  and "previous",
but Madi Stroomer's picture doesn't seem to.

Regards,
Bob Stelloh  Hendersonville NC  USDA Zone 7

On Nov 1, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Barry Sperling wrote:

> FWIW, I've had an unidentified azalea that looks like that for many
> years and, traveling around, I was always on the lookout for a similar
> one.  Whereas most of the time you go for a long time (forever??)
> without finding a match, the reverse happened and I found matches TOO
> easily.  This flower seems to be of a pattern that has been released
> (escaped?) into the trade many times under a variety of names.  GLT,
> Bill's plant, is one.  Kunimitsu (in the Nanney's garden) is another.
> Larry Martin's 'By Metal Fence' is a third and I've seen others.
> Maybe
> leaf type and bloom time can be differentiators, but without that info
> things are even more of a guess than normally.
>     Barry
>
> William C. Miller III wrote:
>>
>> [Attachment(s) <#TopText> from William C. Miller III included below]
>>
>> Hi Madi,
>>
>> It looks very much like 'George Lindley Taber'.  Compare your image
>> with the attached image.
>>
>> William C. Miller III
>> Bethesda, Maryland
>> www.theazaleaworks.com
>>
>>
>> Madi Stroomer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Unknown Name :(
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>> This is a picture of one of my mum's hundred azaleas. (we counted!)
>>> We have never known the name as it's sooo old! it is over 1.5 meters
>>> tall.
>>> I was wondering if you could identify the name of it so we can label
>>> it for good?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Madison
>>> from Geelong, VIC, Australia
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> ----
>>> Let us find your next place for you! Need a place to rent, buy or
>>> share? <http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157631292/direct/01/>
>>
>
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Hmm.

'Kinimitsu' is documented as hose-in-hose with irregular doubling,
strong purplish red with white center.

Pictures from Joe Coleman's garden seem to match that, at
<http://www.pbase.com/azaleasociety/image/57541270> and "previous",
but Madi Stroomer's picture doesn't seem to.

Regards,
Bob Stelloh Hendersonville NC USDA Zone 7

On Nov 1, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Barry Sperling wrote:

> FWIW, I've had an unidentified azalea that looks like that for many
> years and, traveling around, I was always on the lookout for a similar
> one. Whereas most of the time you go for a long time (forever??)
> without finding a match, the reverse happened and I found matches TOO
> easily. This flower seems to be of a pattern that has been released
> (escaped?) into the trade many times under a variety of names. GLT,
> Bill's plant, is one. Kunimitsu (in the Nanney's garden) is another.
> Larry Martin's 'By Metal Fence' is a third and I've seen others.
> Maybe
> leaf type and bloom time can be differentiators, but without that info
> things are even more of a guess than normally.
> Barry
>
> William C. Miller III wrote:
>>
>> [Attachment(s) <#TopText> from William C. Miller III included below]
>>
>> Hi Madi,
>>
>> It looks very much like 'George Lindley Taber'. Compare your image
>> with the attached image.
>>
>> William C. Miller III
>> Bethesda, Maryland
>> www.theazaleaworks.com
>>
>>
>> Madi Stroomer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Unknown Name :(
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>> This is a picture of one of my mum's hundred azaleas. (we counted!)
>>> We have never known the name as it's sooo old! it is over 1.5 meters
>>> tall.
>>> I was wondering if you could identify the name of it so we can label
>>> it for good?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Madison
>>> from Geelong, VIC, Australia
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>> ----
>>> Let us find your next place for you! Need a place to rent, buy or
>>> share? <http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157631292/direct/01/>
>>
>
>
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Hi Bob,
     Unfortunately, relying on my memory failed as the plant I was
thinking of (on actually checking my notes) was labeled 'Matsukasa'.
Looking at the description in Galle on p. 289 the actual flower
appearance is ambiguous.  Maybe the plant was mislabeled?  In any event
I have seen others with that appearance but not labeled GLT.  About a
decade ago I was noting such plants trying to get names for all of the
ones in my garden (that my wife had planted years before).  There are
still several that are unknown.  I once posted some pictures to the
group but didn't get any answers.
     Barry


Bob Stelloh wrote:
>
>
> Hmm.
>
> 'Kinimitsu' is documented as hose-in-hose with irregular doubling,
> strong purplish red with white center.
>
> Pictures from Joe Coleman's garden seem to match that, at
> <http://www.pbase.com/azaleasociety/image/57541270
> <http://www.pbase.com/azaleasociety/image/57541270>> and "previous",
> but Madi Stroomer's picture doesn't seem to.
>
> Regards,
> Bob Stelloh Hendersonville NC USDA Zone 7
>
> On Nov 1, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Barry Sperling wrote:
>
> > FWIW, I've had an unidentified azalea that looks like that for many
> > years and, traveling around, I was always on the lookout for a similar
> > one. Whereas most of the time you go for a long time (forever??)
> > without finding a match, the reverse happened and I found matches TOO
> > easily. This flower seems to be of a pattern that has been released
> > (escaped?) into the trade many times under a variety of names. GLT,
> > Bill's plant, is one. Kunimitsu (in the Nanney's garden) is another.
> > Larry Martin's 'By Metal Fence' is a third and I've seen others.
> > Maybe
> > leaf type and bloom time can be differentiators, but without that info
> > things are even more of a guess than normally.
> > Barry
> >
> > William C. Miller III wrote:
> >>
> >> [Attachment(s) <#TopText> from William C. Miller III included below]
> >>
> >> Hi Madi,
> >>
> >> It looks very much like 'George Lindley Taber'. Compare your image
> >> with the attached image.
> >>
> >> William C. Miller III
> >> Bethesda, Maryland
> >> www.theazaleaworks.com
> >>
> >>
> >> Madi Stroomer wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Unknown Name :(
> >>>
> >>> Hi!
> >>> This is a picture of one of my mum's hundred azaleas. (we counted!)
> >>> We have never known the name as it's sooo old! it is over 1.5 meters
> >>> tall.
> >>> I was wondering if you could identify the name of it so we can label
> >>> it for good?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Kind Regards,
> >>> Madison
> >>> from Geelong, VIC, Australia
> >>>
> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------
> >>> ----
> >>> Let us find your next place for you! Need a place to rent, buy or
> >>> share? <http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157631292/direct/01/
> <http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157631292/direct/01/>>
> >>
> >
> >
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My friend Charles H. Eastman died Saturday morning in his home at 4805 Barber
Street in Columbia near Columbia College and not far from the Crane Creek bluffs
in Richland County, SC,  where he first saw a new wild azalea during his
boyhood, which was named for him in 1999 as an entirely new species.  He retired
as an engineer for the SC Department of Transportation June1, 180 with 30 years
of service.  In his work afield building roads he found more of the white
azaleas like the ones at Crane Creek, at Santee State Park and in Newberry
county near a Swertia stand.

I last visited Charles on his 84th birthday this September 9th. I helped him to
venture out into the yard on his scooter over a new wooden ramp and bridge where
we talked about past field adventures and the native plants in his woods.  Over
the past year or so he had been growing weaker and toward the end was
experiencing much pain.  Over the past 10 years Charles had lost his beloved
wife Pat, his twin sister Jean and Edith and his older brother John Wade, who
was also a twin. His brother Lee Eastman died as a paratrooper in WWII.  Also in
recent years Charles had lost both feet due to circulation problems caused by
vein removal for bypass surgery many years ago.

I first met Charles Eastman in mid-April 1981 when he walked into my office at
the natural resources department with a handful of native azalea trusses in
almost every color of the rainbow that he had collected from a population of
Oconee Azalea (Rhododendron flammeum) on a bluff of the North Edisto in Aiken
County, SC then owned by his friend Dr. Oscar LaBorde of Columbia.  

While I was a native plant enthusiast at the time, it was Charles who sparked my
interest in native azaleas and rhododendrons, which he grew in his large wooded
yard.  At that time we began taking one and more field trips annually in Spring
to observe native azaleas and birds, with an added goal to find a good rural
eatery that we had never frequented before.  We always had an enjoyable time. 
Because of the timing of our trips we were seeking primarily flammeum, except
when we visited the mid-May white fragrant azaleas at Crane Creek and Santee
State Park which the botanists then thought were just the Alabama Azalea. 
Charles also grew several of the white azaleas in his woods, at least one was
collected in a paper Dixie Cup during the construction of Interstate 20 north of
Columbia, a project which cut a wide swath through a rich area for the
azaleas.  
The more we observed and talked, the more we both thought the azaleas were not
Rhododendorn alabamensis, but something new and different.  These bloom on stems
with fully expanded mature leaves and seemed to prefer areas with limestone or
marble in the soil.  I invited the azalea expert Dr. Kathleen Kron from Wake
Forest University to come down for a field trip to the white azaleas, which took
place in May 1992.  After visiting the plants in flower along the Crane
Creek bluffs and the Limestone Nature Trail on Santee State Park, she studied
them and decided they were different. Dr. Kron and I colloborated on an article
to propose the azaleas as a new species to honor Charles Eastman.  It was
published in the September 1999 issue of Novon at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Rhododendron eastmanii has now been documented as growing natively in 12 of the
46 South Carolina counties totalling more than 40 separate populations.  Dr.
Charles Horn at Newberry College in Newberry, SC has done all of the recent
field botany on the species.  I have accompanied him on search trips each May
for the past several years.

I will be a pallbearer at his graveside service this week at Greenlawn Cemetery
in Columbia.  He will never be forgotten.  I have a good photo of him with
two botanists in 1992 at the Crane Creek bluffs.  I will post it.
 
Mike Creel
Lexington, South Carolina

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Wallace
Sent: Nov 2, 2009 7:18 AM
To: azaleas@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [AZ] Winter Weather Forecasts

 

Its nice to kow we will be having a mild winter again.  Our autumns have ended miserably.  It has been below 0 degrees.  When my boy turned two everybody missed the party.  We had a blizzard December 20, 2002.  His birthday was December 22, (which this year is still mostly fall).

 

One of the links metioned the weather between Christmas and "MLK Day" (December 19).

MLK III day is October 23.



--
Larry Wallace
Cincinnati

Before the thread spirals totally out of control, let me just
reiterate that MY remarks on the winter's weather were only for the
Middle Atlantic states, where I live, not for the Midwest, New England,
Deep South, etc.  If you would like to see what the 2 gentlemen that
were linked to (Alan Huffman and Larry Cosgrove) are guessing for your
area you need to read the semi-technical discussions that they have.
While they are professionals, their pay (and work) is not linked to the
accuracy of their winter forecasts and this is primarily for bragging
rights.
     I think that if the forecasts for your area are for unusually severe
winter weather then it wouldn't hurt to line up protective measures for
your more sensitive plants: snow fencing for wind protection, other
types of plant coverings, heavy mulching (including totally covering the
plants for the duration of the severe weather), etc.  I personally carry
in my pots to an unheated attached shed when the temperatures are
forecast to go below 20°, but I'm not positive that this is necessary,
and here it's only for a few weeks each year.
     Good luck,
        Barry, 10 mi south of DC


Larry Wallace wrote:
>
> The north bank of the Ohio at low water is the Mason-Dixon Line.
> Cincinnati is almost in the south.  I moved heare (in the South)
> because the winters were a little milder and it was (ha ha) the Machin
> Tool Capital of tne World.  When I moved here the winters have had
> frewquent breaks with southern air.  The last decade they haven't been
> any different than De Troit
>
>
> --
> Larry Wallace
> Cincinnati
>
> PS Around 1980 they moved the state borders 150 feet south.  Somehow
> this made riverboat gambling legal in Indiana, and tomorrow we vote on
> it in Ohio.  In a shallow river kepiing in the proper state was
> difficullt, so the boats now go nowhere.
>
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Mike

It would be interesting to test if Fred Galle's Choice Cream is indeed self
fertile because this would be rare for a plant with such simple parentage.

Dick Jaynes of Kalmia fame did some studies in the 70's that showed selfing
individual plants of deciduous azaleas species failed to take in most instances
and in the few instances where they did very weak seedlings resulted.

The article was published in 1976 and can be found on the web.

He was attempting to discover if deciduous azaleas could be used as a bridge to
developing yellow evergreen azaleas.

My money would be it is not self fertile at least to any great degree but then
again the only way to know for certain is to test it.

I plan to self several 4ns in 2010.

Thanks for following up on my inquiry.

John Perkis
Salem, NH

--- In azaleas@yahoogroups.com, Mike Creel <mikeacreel@...> wrote:
>
> I have grown Fred Galle's Choice Cream (austrinum X atlanticum, or the
reverse) for years and it definitely seems to be self fertile. Growing isolated
the plant every season is filled with good seed pods.  Since there have been NO
responses regarding Galle's Choice, which is described in Galle's Azalea book, I
assume that no one grows it and no nursery has continued it.  I will check with
Hank Bruno at Calloway Gardens to determine if the original plant still grows in
the gardens there.
>  Mike Creel, SC USDA Zone 8a
> Lexington County, South Carolina
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: sjperk5 <sjperk5@...>
> To: azaleas@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sun, November 1, 2009 8:26:08 AM
> Subject: [AZ] 'Galle's Choice'
>
>  
> Does anyone on this forum grow 'Galle's Choice'?
>
> There is a very good chance this is a cross of caledulaceum X colemanii.
>
> John Perkins
> Salem, NH
>

Greetings All,

It is official! The seed exchange is off and running. I received seed from Jim
Willhite and David Updike on Friday Oct 30th and it is preped and in the fridge.
Hope to get out this week and do some collecting myself. Looking forward to many
more packages coming in. I am hoping to get most of the donations in and
processed, so we can get the list posted shotly after Christmas. Last year we
had about 200 seed lots and basically sold out by May. I am hoping to do at
least that well or better this year.

Thanks to Everyone for you help and participation

Aaron

Thanks, Bill. I agree, 'Kunimitsu' doesn't look like 'George Lindley
Taber' or the submitted image, per my earlier email.

Dr. Yamaguchi and I have emailed a lot, mostly resolving  name
differences, and to get his permission to copy all his Kurume
pictures to our picture website. See, in this instance, <http://
www.pbase.com/azaleasociety/image/50909529>.

Bob Stelloh  Hendersonville NC  USDA Zone 7

On Nov 1, 2009, at 8:37 PM, William C. Miller III wrote:

>
>
> Bob,
>
> 'Kunimitsu' is one of the Kurume hybrids on Dr. Yamaguchi's page of
> Kurume images.  It's not a wonderful image but it doesn't look like
> 'George Lindley Taber' or the submitted image --- and there is a
> significant size differential between most Kurume hybrids and most
> Southern Indian hybrids.
>
> Dr. Yamaguchi's link is:     http://web.agr.ehime-u.ac.jp/
> ~dr.yamaguchi/virtualazalea.htm
>
> Bill
>
>
> Bob Stelloh wrote:
>>
>> Hmm.
>>
>> 'Kinimitsu' is documented as hose-in-hose with irregular doubling,
>> strong purplish red with white center.
>>
>> Pictures from Joe Coleman's garden seem to match that, at
>> <http://www.pbase.com/azaleasociety/image/57541270> and "previous",
>> but Madi Stroomer's picture doesn't seem to.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bob Stelloh Hendersonville NC USDA Zone 7
>>
>> On Nov 1, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Barry Sperling wrote:
>>
>> > FWIW, I've had an unidentified azalea that looks like that for many
>> > years and, traveling around, I was always on the lookout for a
>> similar
>> > one. Whereas most of the time you go for a long time (forever??)
>> > without finding a match, the reverse happened and I found
>> matches TOO
>> > easily. This flower seems to be of a pattern that has been released
>> > (escaped?) into the trade many times under a variety of names. GLT,
>> > Bill's plant, is one. Kunimitsu (in the Nanney's garden) is
>> another.
>> > Larry Martin's 'By Metal Fence' is a third and I've seen others.
>> > Maybe
>> > leaf type and bloom time can be differentiators, but without
>> that info
>> > things are even more of a guess than normally.
>> > Barry
>> >
>> > William C. Miller III wrote:
>> >>
>> >> [Attachment(s) <#TopText> from William C. Miller III included
>> below]
>> >>
>> >> Hi Madi,
>> >>
>> >> It looks very much like 'George Lindley Taber'. Compare your image
>> >> with the attached image.
>> >>
>> >> William C. Miller III
>> >> Bethesda, Maryland
>> >> www.theazaleaworks.com
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Madi Stroomer wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Unknown Name :(
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi!
>> >>> This is a picture of one of my mum's hundred azaleas. (we
>> counted!)
>> >>> We have never known the name as it's sooo old! it is over 1.5
>> meters
>> >>> tall.
>> >>> I was wondering if you could identify the name of it so we can
>> label
>> >>> it for good?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Kind Regards,
>> >>> Madison
>> >>> from Geelong, VIC, Australia
>> >>>
>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>> >>> ----
>> >>> Let us find your next place for you! Need a place to rent, buy or
>> >>> share? <http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157631292/direct/01/>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > ------------------------------------
>> >
>> > When you reply to an email, PLEASE quote its relevant part(s) only,
>> > as context, and DELETE the rest - especially this line and the
>> > Yahoo lines. And PLEASE tell us your city, state and/or USDA zone.
>> >
>> > We welcome attached images RESIZED to be under 100KB in size - 640
>> > x 480 pixel JPEG images at 50% or 1:40 compression are ideal. By
>> > attaching them you agree that, without giving up your rights to
>> > them, they may be shown on Azalea Society websites.
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Thank you, Mike, for your very informative article about your friend
and mentor Charles Eastman. Seems to me you should send this to the
Azalean editor, Pam Fitch <theazalean@...> to be considered for
publication, along with the picture and maybe a few pictures of R.
eastmanii.

Bob Stelloh  Hendersonville NC  USDA Zone 7

On Nov 2, 2009, at 12:14 AM, Mike Creel wrote:

> My friend Charles H. Eastman died Saturday morning in his home at
> 4805 Barber Street in Columbia near Columbia College and not far
> from the Crane Creek bluffs in Richland County, SC,  where he first
> saw a new wild azalea during his boyhood, which was named for him
> in 1999 as an entirely new species.  He retired as an engineer for
> the SC Department of Transportation June1, 180 with 30 years of
> service.  In his work afield building roads he found more of the
> white azaleas like the ones at Crane Creek, at Santee State Park
> and in Newberry county near a Swertia stand.
>
> <snip>
>
>

Hi Bob,
     I gave a mea culpa on my 'Kunimitsu' error some time ago.  I will
add, though, that the Encore 'Autumn Chiffon', blooming now, is another
of the MANY that look like GLT.
        Barry

Bob Stelloh wrote:
>
>
> Thanks, Bill. I agree, 'Kunimitsu' doesn't look like 'George Lindley
> Taber' or the submitted image, per my earlier email.
>
> Dr. Yamaguchi and I have emailed a lot, mostly resolving name
> differences, and to get his permission to copy all his Kurume
> pictures to our picture website. See, in this instance, <http://
> www.pbase.com/azaleasociety/image/50909529>.
>
> Bob Stelloh Hendersonville NC USDA Zone 7
>

For use in my unorthodox system of outdoor cutting propagation I am always
seeking materials for making domepots that accommodate cuttings of larger-leafed
plants, rhododendrons included.  Like many of you that root cuttings in
greenhouses, I cut half of the leaf off on cuttings for space and to reduce
water loss. But sometimes the leaves of larger-growing species expand and become
crowded inside a humidity dome.

Just today, when using up some time prior to a funeral where I was a pallbearer,
I visited a nearby Big Lots store and found two sizes of large, clear plastic
"Spic and Span" household cleaning buckets that seem to have great potential for
use as humidity domes (inverted over media in a pot) for cuttings in larger/
wider dome pots.  The only question remaining is whether the plastic will become
brittle with constant outdoor exposure to heat, cold, freezing and sun.  The
only alteration these clear buckets need to become humidity domes is drilling a
vent hole in the bottom center with a 1 to 1 1/2-inch diameter cylinder-type
hole saw and plugging that hole with an equivalent size rubber chair foot. 

The use of larger domes (in width and height) in my outdoor domepots would
enable the rooting of larger (branched) cuttings and cuttings of species or
varieties with larger-growing leaves. For years I have rooted Rhododendron
catawbiense and maximum type cuttings.  But I would like to try rooting
magnolias with larger-expanding leaves, even Magnolia macrophylla.  The humidity
domes used outdoors in my zone 8A and colder climes have also afforded cold
protection for the cuttings inside the domes.

I find that there are an increasing number of people trying domepots similar to
mine and finding success. So I thought this informationw was worth sharing with
them.
 Mike Creel, SC USDA Zone 8a
Nature is my Greenhouse
Fall-Line Sandhills region
Lexington County, South Carolina