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Thu, Sep 15, 11 at 12:20
| Have found 8 seedling to sapling size pecans growing along creekbed. Cleared out around the first one I found and saw leaves burn as tree went from semi-shade to full sun all during the hottest summer ever recorded for us. The rest I have left remaining where they are, intending to clear out around them this winter while they're dormant. The biggest of the lot is about 2" in diameter at 10' tall and located 18" from a 12" diameter 35' tall hackberry. Should I cut the hackberry down to ground this winter or just to the 6-8' level leaving the high stump to help brace the sapling for another year? |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Fri, Sep 16, 11 at 14:58
| how will an 8 foot stump help a sapling??? i have read this a dozen times.. and am having a hard time understanding what you are asking??? ken ps: you must be a wizard with a chainsaw removing a 35 foot tree eighteen inches from the sapling ... good luck with that.... |
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| Was worried about the pecan bending too much in wind after the hackberry was dropped. You're right however, there's no way I'm going to cut something that size that high above ground. Cutting a tree down is dangerous enough without making it more difficult. Mind wasn't fully in gear. Should be able to drop it without it affecting the pecan but of course one never knows for sure til the tree is down. |
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