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Fri, Apr 27, 12 at 9:27
| I just received a delivery of a tree hybrid (Ivan's Beauty) coming out of OR from the coast region, delivered to PA. It has broken bud to about 1/3", though it's bareroot. Of course, there's a freeze warning tonight through tomorrow to the 20's in PA. SHould I hold this plant in the cellar until Sunday or get it planted asap? IOW, will frost damage it at this stage of bud? |
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- Posted by mackel_in_dfw 8a (My Page) on Fri, Apr 27, 12 at 10:09
| Yesterday, I took a fully leafed out apple tree, removed all of the potting soil, cut off all adventitioius roots above the flare, teased out the remaing roots so they all radiated straight out, and planted it in clay. It got 90 degrees yesterday. It took a while preparing a very wide, very shallow hole as I let the root ball soak in a bucket of water. Four foot by four foot by three inches deep. I shoved a bamboo stick straight down into the middle of the hole, placed the root ball down so the trunk was right up next to it, taped masking tape around the pole and the trunk in several places. I poured the dirt I had dug out on to the rootball creating a mound, watered, then placed compost on top of the mound and what winded up was a tree planted about three inches above grade. The compost gets slowly removed from near the trunk area out as a few weeks to months pass. That's what I normally do as I've refined methodology. Here it's almost May and one is supposed to plant bare rooted fruit trees in January and February here. But I expect one hundred percent success, knowing that blazing heat is just around the corner in a month or so. The biggest thing for that apple tree now is proper irrigation. So I'd, be patient..Just sayin'. Mackel |
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| Pot it up or plant it ASAP. Bare root is fine when completely dormant but at this point the tree has demands that can't be met if it remains bare root. As for Sorbus and spring freezes....my understanding is that they are fairly robust. The ones around here have always broken bud well before the last frost/freeze. I would expect it to be fine. |
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- Posted by mackel_in_dfw (My Page) on Fri, Apr 27, 12 at 10:50
| I was thinking put into straight compost, then you have a little bit of time to dance around the totem pole. But hell it's a long way from Canada. |
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