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| I've searched online and can't get a straight answer. If you click on the link below, you'll see exactly what we're going to be doing.
Should we use 1x1x8, 2x1x8, or 2x2x8? We're wrapping burlap around 2 rows of 6 1/2 feet tall Hornbeams to protect from Sunscald. We've already bought the burlap. I can't tell in the pic what is being used in terms of size of stakes. What would you recommend? We have moderate winds here so stability is important. |
Here is a link that might be useful: pic
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| ilovemytrees, I think you might love your trees too much. What does that picture show exactly? If you are protecting from sunscald, you only need to make sure the trunk is shaded from the sun. If you are staking for stability, that is entirely different. |
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- Posted by ilovemytrees 6a Western NY (My Page) on Thu, Oct 11, 12 at 19:13
| We chose 2 x 2 x 8's to use. Famartin: Dude, seriously, you've been on Gardenweb for TEN and a half years talking about your gardens of flowers, conifers etc, and you say I love my 20 trees to much? Let's be real, only someone who has a serious love affair with gardening would spend 10 years posting about it. So all I can say is pot meet kettle? The bottom line is I haven't done anything above and beyond any other tree owner unless you consider watering twice a week during a drought unnecessary. To get back on topic, the problem is with my Hornbeams, the branches go all the way down to the ground practically. They have very low branching. There's almost nowhere to wrap. We are not staking the trees, we are putting up burlap to shade the sun away from the trees to protect them from Sunscald. If you think that is too much, I can live with that. I don't need any further responses on here. We've already placed the lumber order. Thank you. |
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| ilovemytrees, I mention that you might love your trees too much because you seem to worry about everything ;) You're a mama bear ;) Anyway, one thing to keep in mind is that sunscald usually occurs to unprotected trunks, below the branching. Above the branching, the branches provide some shade to the trunk and scald is less likely. |
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- Posted by ilovemytrees 6a Western NY (My Page) on Thu, Oct 11, 12 at 19:50
| The difference between me and you is I am NEW to this, and you've been doing this at least a decade. I have no doubt in my mind if I could search posts that 10 years ago you came on and asked lots of questions. It's people like you on message boards, people who've been on a board for years and years that makes newbies feel unwelcome and uncomfortable to ask questions for being shamed by the old timers for either asking too many questions or for asking questions when they should already know the answers. It's a cliche'. I belong to another message board of an entirely different subject, and have belonged there from day one (2004). The board now has almost 200,000k members. To see now, how my fellow posters on there who had joined when I did, they are treating the newbies is really a disgrace. They seem to forget what it was like for them when they were new to the subject. They have no patience, no compassion and no memory of the knowledge they lacked in the area at one time. You're smiley faces don't mask the rudeness of your words. Basically, if you can't be helpful in your response then do everyone a favor and don't respond. In fact, based on some other responses that you have given me in other threads that I have chosen to ignore, I am now asking you to no longer respond to any of my posts. |
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| ILT, do you have any pics of your Hornbeams? You mentioned they are branched low and in that case you typically don't have to worry about sunscald. I had a couple young Katsura I planted in fall a few years back and was worried about sunscald but was told that I don't have to worry due to the low branching. They did fine for me without the protection. Also you only have to be concerned with the south exposure as that is where the sun beats on the tree, warms it up and then as the sun sets it get cold quickly. |
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| Good luck with your trees. Please don't stop posting here because some people forget what it was like to be a novice. There's lots of good experience and wisdom to be found within this forum. Sometimes you just have to knock a few heads around to get to it. |
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| Carpinus caroliniana is know to us as being ironclad winterhardy. It's native range stretches up to Quebec, southern Ontario and Minnesota. While I've never seen sunscald on this tree, I suppose anything is possible. Forget stakes and burlap, what a hideous sight to have to stare at all winter. Search for whitewash for sunscald. This is a time-honored treatment commonly used for fruit trees AWA others. It is cheap, easily applied and wears off on its own. |
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| What is in that pic is what I may try to protect some marginal hardy plants. I agree with the other posts about white paint and trunk only protection. That is just an impressive shelter in the pic. |
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