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Gardening InformationTransplanting Tips
by:
Michael McGroarty
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TRANSPLANTING TIPS
Early spring is a great time for transplantation
trees and shrubs, but you must do so before they wake up. Transplantation
a plant is a really traumatic experience for the plant if it is awake. It’s like doing surgery on a person spell they are awake. Dormancy starts in the fall as presently
as you experience a nice hard freeze, and the plants remain dormant until the weather warms up in the spring. This is once
you should transplant, spell the plants are dormant.
You can transplant in the spring up until the plants leaf out. Once
the buds are green and swollen you are ordinarily safe to still transplant, but once the leaf develops, you should wait until fall. Once
transplantation
you can dig the shrubs out bare root, just do sure they are out of the ground for as short a time as possible, and support the roots damp spell out of the ground.
Make sure there are no air pockets about the roots once
you plant them. Once
possible, it is always better to dig a ball of earth with the plants once
you transplant them. The rule of thumb is 12” of root ball for every 1” of stem caliper. If the diameter of the stem of a tree is 2”, then you should dig a root ball 24” in diameter.
Don’t be afraid of cutting a few roots once
you transplant. Simply try not to cut them any shorter than the above guidelines allow. Cutting the roots wish really help to brace the plant. It’s a process just better-known as root pruning. Once
the roots are severed, the plant then develops lateral roots to do up for what is lost. These lateral roots are more fibrous in nature, and have more ability to pick up water and nutrients.
Some nurseries driving tractors over the plants in the field with a device that undercuts the roots of the plant just to force the plant to develop more fibrous roots. This does transplantation
the plant the following year more much successful, and does for a stronger and healthier plant.
The old timers root cropped
by hand by forcing a spade in the ground about their plants. If you have a plant in your landscape that is doing poorly, a little root pruning spell the plant is dormant could bring it around. It’s worth the effort.
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