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| A few years ago I successfully started 2 olive trees from suckers. They grew into 6' trees, and we had to transplant them to our new property. Last summer we moved in, and they were transplanted in the summer heat. We pruned their tops and got as much of the root ball as we could. They are on drip irrigation. We watched in horror as they lost their leaves, but maintained a few. The trunks and limbs still showed green. We knew they had roots and water, but they struggled. One year later, I walked past them and was surprised to see both of them bursting out fresh green leaves by the hundreds! Wow! They have started to grow! Don't give up! Suzi |
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| Give them TLC and they surprised you sometimes. Tony |
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- Posted by desertdance So CA Zone 9b (My Page) on Mon, Aug 18, 14 at 16:41
| Tony, today I inspected our wine grapes. One that we thought was dead at the end of a row is busting out with new leaves. So this is the magic week for our property I guess. That grape's leaves all dried up, and we were sure it didn't make it. Now it's definitely alive! Woo hoo! Suzi |
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- Posted by Appleseed70 6 MD (My Page) on Mon, Aug 18, 14 at 17:25
| Every tree I've ever transplanted in the summer lost it's leaves, but every one of them always survived and rebounded. None of them however were fruit trees. |
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| I had a similar experience. I bought 2 bare root trees in may. They didn't grow new leaves for almost 3 months |
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| Suzi, I am glad that grape vine made it. But in the future, if you like to propagate it. All you have to do is to cut a 12 inches of the vine in the late fall and bury 6 inches in the ground and in the Spring you will have a new grape vine. Grape is the easiest plant to propagate. Tony |
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- Posted by desertdance So CA Zone 9b (My Page) on Wed, Aug 20, 14 at 9:41
| Agree Tony! Our entire backyard vineyard was started from cuttings. When we knew we were going to move, we grew them all in containers. It was the transplant shock that hit that one grape hard. A couple others are pretty dead too, but I'm hoping they will come back, and if not, there's always cuttings! Suzi |
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| I had several trees which died over last winter (apples and pears). And a couple where the tops of the tree died, but new shoots were coming from down low but above the graft. On these second trees I pruned away the "dead" upper branches but left the main trunk, for support for the new shoots. Well here it is 3 months later, and a bud on the "dead" top of one of those trees has opened and is growing??? Not sure it will get to any significant size, but I find it interesting that it finally decided to grow a month or so before the trees will be loosing their leaves. |
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