I love me some Ginko. pretty trees, odd leaves, direct evolutionary connection to pre-ice age earth and most importantly it makes one hell of a tea. So when i was told some fucktard ran over the ginko tree in my front yard (middle of iris bed none the less) yesterday, i was pissed. not kinda mad not frustrated but foaming at the mouth i wanna eat his still beating heart pissed. Two miles from home and i get the call "somebody hit the ginko tree" echos of "What the fuck could be heard for in windsor. I got home and sure as shitty drivers my tree was snapped 6 inches off below the ground draped across the sidewalk with two suv sized tire tracks cutting right thru the flower bed up to it.


So i had to chop what was left of my favorite tree down, being careful to avoid anything made of paper lest it burst into flames from mere proximity.I bucked it into fire wood and piled up the lil sticks for a brush fire at some unknown date in the future. Then it hit me people grow trees from cuttings all the time, perhaps i can save this sweet sweet source of better than coffee. Minutes later i am on the phone with an area greenhouse. "Can I speak to your tree expert?"


About a half hour of back and forth on hold as he checks propagation manuals (i shall have to find some of these treasures) and offers generic indoor winter rooting advice and a plan is hatched. the brand new brush pile no longer a waste product to be consumed as an idle distraction over beers and bowls takes on new life as a genetic bank, a means to keep a living fossil, well, living. now if i can just track down some rooting hormone and topsoil on a snowy December sunday.......

Oh later in the day i found this site about ginko

who the hell hit it and how on earth did he/she convince you to spare their life????

it was a hit & run tree killer

Sooooo........... your sunny windows will now be filled with Ginko cuttings...... cool.

You can find rooting hormone at most any well equipped garden center.

Keep them in bright indirect sun until signs of new life appear then move them into the sunniest window you have and keep them moist.

obligatory law student reply - check and see if insurance will pay and consider suing

They live at the end of the street, so it's not hard to find them. But really, it's some mom who lets her son drive her car. Granted, it's a dick move to hit someone's tree and drive off, but in a city where we pay almost $200 per month per car for insurance, it's a bigger dick move to turn it in and make their rates go up even more. That's assuming that they even HAVE insurance, which a lot of people don't.

your money

They oughtta at least buy you a new tree.

some kid down the street. in his defense he did at least come back and talk to the neighbor who saw him do it.

I wouldn't have killed him but had i been here to see him hit my tree and drive off he mighta wished i did.



they live in the apartments down the way. when i catch mom in the car we will have a talk, if i approach the kid i am just gonna wind up stomping his ass

yeah found the rooting hormone and some topsoil the other night. there are 176 attempts at ginko recovery doing their thing in the kitchen in a little platic covered greenhouse thingy my buddy left me when he split to the east coast.