Rain? What rain, I just saw 2 houses with lawn sprinklers going off; I think we just got an inch of rain here. I can tell you that I have seen much more growth this year in comparison to last year. For example, many of our Japanese Maples have flushed out more than 2x the normal volume of new tissue, not the norm for these parts. The nearby native stands of white pine have so many cones that the branches are breaking off due to their weight. If I had to guess, I think it would be safe to say that most plants have pushed double the amount of new growth this year compared to say last year. Most landscape plant's new growth would have be hardened off come July but the cool and wet weather of June let them to continue to push new growth. I know this is not the most scientific way to measure this but more of a field note from the "horticultural soldiers. All this talk about cool and wet weather reminds me of a commercial tree grower in the Pennsylvania used to set up mist head among their containerized trees. The idea was that the mist head would fire off periodically and thus create a cooler ambient air to help and promote new growth (I am sure there is plenty of fertilizer too) In the end they were able to compete with Pacific Northwest growers when bringing a tree to market.
On Jul 31, 4:45 pm, [email protected] wrote: > Gary: > > I think that increased?height growth will be easier to see that diameter > growth and would expect that, especially for white pine, the leader growth > could be twice as much as normal.? > > Russ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary A Beluzo <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, Jul 31, 2009 4:34 pm > Subject: [ENTS] Re: rain and growth rates? > > So, given that lateral growth is more carbon-based than vertical does that > mean that we should expect greater height with all this rain? > > Gary > > Prof. Gary A. Beluzo > > Systems Ecologist > > Holyoke Comm College > > 303 Homestead Ave > > Holyoke, MA. 01040 > > On Jul 31, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Joseph Zorzin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Now that this is year is one of the wettest on record, at least in the > northeast, just how much can we expect tree growth rings to reflect this > fact? That is- if it rains twice as much as typical, during the growing > season, will that result in a ring twice as wide? Probably not, but I wonder > what sort of relationship there is between these 2 variables. > > ? > > I started thinking about this as I notice the trees in my backyard showing > what appear to be greater growth at the top than previous years- especially > noticeable on white and pitch pine leaders. > > ? > > Joe- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
