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| I am selling my 4.5acre orchard/home and will be hand digging 8 2.5" -3"caliper 8-10 yoinashis and hosuis because collectively they have chujuro, mishirasu, dripping honey, Oly giant,kosui, etc. and I have a lot of time invested in these particular specimens. My window of time is closing and possibly need some advice. I'll tie up the top. For starter I want to include as much root as I can. I will deep spade 18" from the trunk and gently loosen the soil and roots with a pitchfork and through rocking back and forth and around, I and a friend should be able to lift it out, put it in a protective bag, spray the roots with water. Is this reasonable? They're on BET. will I have to prune it to lessen its foliage load? I aim for them to fruit, thin hard and hold on. Transport and plant that same day, water with kelp dilition, add forest mulch. apply gypsum pellets for fall/ph. |
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- Posted by harvestman 6 (My Page) on Sun, Oct 6, 13 at 9:26
| For most species I prefer moving even 3" caliber trees BR, freeing and moving as much root as possible, but pears are the exception and survive better by moving a heavy ball, in my experience- wrapped tightly with string and burlap. I've lost big Asian and Euro pears, even when carefully saving most of the root system- no matter what you do it seems all hair roots will be killed when moving plants bare root. Other species rapidly regenerate fine roots and reward you for saving lots of big root which is a key advantage of bare root transplanting- the other being getting roots completely set in the soil of the new site immediately but pears are different. In my nursery I now place all pears in in-ground bags from the first planting while other species are sized up and dug up bare root to either sell directly, put in large pots for a season or put in large in-ground bags or just moved to a more open space to sell them later as up to 3.5" caliber bare root trees. I usually install these trees myself so the customer may not even notice- they actually establish quicker than any other trees but people can be frightened by a tree not attached to soil. |
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