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Hapuu Wanted - paul711 - 04-27-2015
Hello, I'm new to this forum and I'm looking to landscape my lot with hapuu. Does anyone know where I can get some if I cut and remove them myself? Mahalo in advance.
RE: Hapuu Wanted - Lee M-S - 04-28-2015
Welcome to Punaweb!
I think hapuu is pretty popular, you might have trouble getting it for free.
RE: Hapuu Wanted - Rene Siracusa - 04-28-2015
They have hapu'u logs for sale at Pahoa Feed & Fertilizer.
If you want to cut your own, please make sure you have permission from the property owner. A sustainable way to do it is to either (1) saw pups off the trees and plant them, or (2)saw the hapu'u ABOVE the pups and plant it. That way both parent tree and pups grow.
RE: Hapuu Wanted - paul711 - 04-28-2015
Mahalo for the responses and information. I did read the informative thread on transplanting hapuu and will follow your instructions and make sure I have the permission from the owner.
RE: Hapuu Wanted - kalakoa - 04-28-2015
If not planting in a hole, the logs will root faster laying down (more surface area).
RE: Hapuu Wanted - Rob Tucker - 04-28-2015
A hapu`u log is not small or light weight. I need a wheel barrow to handle mine. Best barrows have two wheels in the front. I also recommend barrow wheels that are foam filled. They never go flat.
RE: Hapuu Wanted - Justin - 04-28-2015
I definitely second the two-wheeled, solid-wheeled, wheelbarrows. Trying to move stuff around in a single, air-filled wheelbarrow over lava rock is masochistic.
RE: Hapuu Wanted - kalakoa - 04-28-2015
two wheels in the front
Nice ones at Farm Supply Coop (but not cheap).
RE: Hapuu Wanted - Rene Siracusa - 04-29-2015
To lighten the weight of the hapu'u log, you can lop off some of the fronds. Lop off the older ones and leave at least one young frond. Try not to damage any incipient (still all curled up) fronds in the process.
Lying the log on its side: the new fronds and, later, the new growth trunk, will grow vertically. So even a long log will start off low to the ground. I sometimes lay two of them parallel to each other, because the logs make good borders - I add cinder soil between them and plant.
RE: Hapuu Wanted - paul711 - 04-29-2015
Thanks again for all the info.