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["Clair or Vivian Lammers" <lammers@alaska.net>]

To avoid spindly seedlings, just have a small fan (6" is all I use) and blow
the air on the plants.      Clair in zone 1-2

----- Original Message -----
From: del stubbs <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
To: <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 6:22 AM
Subject: [nafex] apricots sprouting-yikes!


>
> Edited version of what Hélène wrote:
> >Here is a method for transplanting trees during the growing season:
> >You plant your seedling in the permanent location.... You make a tent
over
> >it with an open> plastic garbage bag black or dark green...
> >There is no light, so no photosynthesis and also minimum evaporation
from>
> >the leaves. The tree "concentrates" on the roots' establishment and the
> >leaves remain exactly the way they were at transplant.
> >I didn't get any information on when you can remove the bag, but,
> >personally,  I leave it about three weeks to a month. I remove the bag in
>
> >the evening when the weather is expected to be overcast  for the next day
> > >or so and I water the seedlings. The tree resumes growing normally as
> >soon as >it gets light.
> Do not let in a bit of light as the vegetation part
> >will keep on growing in the reduced light and get long, leggy and weak.
>To
> >sum this up, you might say that you give the tree the impression it is
> > >night time (a long  night)....
>
> Hélène, thankyou for thoughtful reply. I got caught unprepared to have
> apricot seeds sprouting so early! It is 5°F this morn, the ground is
frozen
> yet. I have 30+ apricot seedlings, planted together in 5 pots...as that
was
> all I had available, and can't yet dig soil. (The later fruiting variety
is
> the first one to sprout, interesting). Six of them are 1" to 2" high,
> showing leaves, and are spindly. I am thinking it will be too hard on them
> to transplant them out of the pots in June, but even if I could come up
with
> 30 one gallon pots with potting soil tomorrow, isn't it too late already
to
> transplant into pots?
> These seedlings are valuable to me, because there is no guessing when this
> apricot will fruit again in this climate.
> I am fascinated by the dark tent idea. If I understand correctly, I would
> transplant the little two month old seedlngs into the nursery in June, and
> keep them dark for several weeks as an adaptation period.
> Would not this sudden darkness kill them as easily as transplant shock?
> Would it be a good idea to 'dark tent' the seedlings where they are in
their
> collective pots now?
> I have them in a 75°F area now. The oldest ones are already getting leggy.
> Should I get a grow light?
> Should I put them in the 40°F basement to slow them down?
> Would gallon pots be big enough for a years' growth?
> If I decide to transplant to the nursery bed in mid-June, would pint pots
be
> big enough for the next 2 1/2 months' growing?
>
> Thanks everyone for any further help!, Del
>
> Del Stubbs http://www.pinewoodforge.com ag zone2/3
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