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OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 9:43 am Post subject: Sex my Junipers
Latest want is a Juniper (for the berries). Was at the local garden centre and they had some good looking babies but when I asked if they were male/female they had no idea. Is it possible to tell them apart when young?

Falstaff

Joined: 27 May 2009
Posts: 1014

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 9:50 am Post subject:
Take their genes down ??

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 2:36 pm Post subject:
perhaps get several as it might take at least two to tango

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 4:52 pm Post subject:
It does take two (the posh word is Dioecious) - and I didn't want to buy 3 and end up with three boys - only the girls bear the berries of course.

Falstaff

Joined: 27 May 2009
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 8:53 pm Post subject:

OtleyLad wrote:

It does take two (the posh word is Dioecious) - and I didn't want to buy 3 and end up with three boys - only the girls bear the berries of course.

Buy them in the Autumn ?

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 8:54 pm Post subject:
Do the females have to be fertilised? They may bear sterile fruits. I don't know I'm just throwing it out there as a possibility.

sean
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 10:00 pm Post subject:
Am I the only person whose brain reads this thread title out in a Hugh-Laurie-as-Prince-Regent accent?

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
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Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 10:13 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Am I the only person whose brain reads this thread title out in a Hugh-Laurie-as-Prince-Regent accent?

...not anymore you're not

dpack

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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 11:34 pm Post subject:
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Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16531

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 15 5:56 am Post subject:
I have not had to deal with junipers, but yew trees you can't tell for a few years until they start to produce pollen or fruit. The ones outside our house are both male and produce 'pollen bombs' early in the spring all over the car.

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 15 6:41 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

I have not had to deal with junipers, but yew trees you can't tell for a few years until they start to produce pollen or fruit. The ones outside our house are both male and produce 'pollen bombs' early in the spring all over the car.

I've a feeling that is how it is with Junipers. I wanted to grow some as they are a useful habitat for birds, etc. as well as for the berries for me.

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 15 6:42 am Post subject:

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:

sean wrote:

Am I the only person whose brain reads this thread title out in a Hugh-Laurie-as-Prince-Regent accent?

...not anymore you're not

I can so hear him too.

tai haku

Joined: 17 Apr 2011
Posts: 472

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 15 8:23 am Post subject:
There are a number of different cultivars of common juniper used in the ornamental trade which are propagated clonally through cuttings. If you can work out ones which are male or female (either through research or seeing them with cones on) you can buy plants you know are a given sex (albeit they might be silly looking ones).

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16531

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 15 7:03 am Post subject:
I expect you are aware Otley Lad, but wild juniper needs no competition so is inclined to die out if there are any trees near. I would assume most other junipers are the same.

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