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when to transplant pear tree? now or early spring?

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Posted by oldryder (My Page) on
Sat, Nov 23, 13 at 12:08

Its winter here in central MN but the ground is just beginning to freeze. trees are all dormant.

I have a 3 or 4 year old pear tree to relocate.

any difference between doing it now or in early spring?

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  • Posted by fruitnut z7b-8a,4500ft SW TX (My Page) on
    Sat, Nov 23, 13 at 18:32

This late in your zone I'd wait until spring unless you can move a large rootball intact. We know spring will work. Now probably would also but there might be some risk.

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I'm really not sure if there is any difference. I move lots of trees, including pears, until the ground freezes as far down as a Z5. I've always felt the danger lies in frost heaving which can be avoided with a thick mulch. Heaving is said to sometimes leave roots exposed, killing them in colder climates.

Pears are the worst trees to transplant I grow and the only species I don't like moving bare root when more than an inch in diameter.

Mulberries are the only species I grow that seem to suffer here from fall transplanting, where I often get considerable die-back, but trees survive.

Fruitnuts advice is reasonable, I see no advantage to moving the tree now.

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thx for advice, guys.

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