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[Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>]

It is difficult to give a specifc answer, but in Zone7 & Zone8 clay, I water 
dwarf trees with 5-10 gallons at planting & not again until a rainless period 
the growing season has exceeded one week during their first year of growth.  
After that, I only water after a two week period.  In either case, I give 
each tree at least 5 gallons.

This may not be directly relevant, but I remember a delightful & interesting 
story told to us by Dr. Gary Couvillon at University of Georgia.  He knew of 
a very successful nursery that had established a reputation over the years of 
selling trees that would not die.  Every tree or bush they sold included a 
bottle of "magic pills" with instructions to dissolve one pill in a 5 gallon 
bucket of water immediately after planting and each week thereafter during 
the first year and apply the concoction to the tree.  The nursery owner 
confided to Professor Couvillon that the magic pills were just aspirin, but 
he found it was an effective way to get people to water the young trees 
regularly. Earlier in his career, he had problems with having to replace 
trees that had died from lack of water despite carefully including 
instructions to water regularly.  

(The aspirin may, incidentally, have had some effect on eliciting pathogen 
defense response that would aid in warding off disease, but probably the main 
effect was to elicit the people to water!)

Anton

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason MacArthur <rotread@localnet.com>
Sent: Feb 24, 2004 6:44 AM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] M9

I have a question for which a concrete answer will be impossible, but I 
am hoping to get a vague answer gleaned from the collective NAFEX 
wisdom.  I am planting some apple trees into a field with heavy clay 
soil, and I am wondering how much irrigation will be involved.  The 
trees  are mostly on M9, with some Bud9 and some G16 rootstocks.  As a 
general rule, how much watering do they need?

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