My advice, throw anything weak,runty,diseased over the fence (ASAP) and get something healthy to grow,quit wasting your time, Lee Elliott Upstart Nursery, Winchester,IL
--- On Thu, 3/10/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [apple-crop] Post planting questions To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 3:33 PM Hello all, Hoping I could pick your brains on a couple of things: 1) I sort of abused a couple trees while pulling them out of the soaking barrel, I think I had them over-crowded in there. One tiny tree (3/16 caliber) I snapped at the graft union (scion 3/4 separated from the rootstock). I wrapped it back together as soon as I noticed, before planting I could wiggle the scion and the rootstock would wiggle in the ground so it's fairly tight. It was leafing before I got it home from the nursery. It's been in the ground 3 days now and the leaves are still green. a) What are the chances it will pull through? b) Or is it just living on the water it stored from the barrel? c) If it makes it, how long before I should unwrap it? 2) Another abused tree I tore most of the roots off pulling it out of the barrel, by the time I put it in the ground it had two skinny roots barely more than 1 inch long. Caliber was 1/4 so it was pretty small to begin with, will it pull through? Anything I should do differently? Like maybe pot it for a while? 3) How soon after planting is it good to head the trees at the bottom (trellis) wire? Is it immediately? Or better to wait a few days? 4) A few of the trees were leafing right out of the nursery, is it still ok to head them at the wire being that they are "awake"? 5) I have some gravenstein trees in the ground since last year, which are early-bloom, a tree has a flower before any new leaves this season. None of the others are showing any kind of action yet. Is the flower just a fluke or is that what early bloom is? If this is not typical, does it mean anything? Thanks, Rye Hefley Future Farmers Marketer So. Cal. -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list [email protected] http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
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