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  • From: "Regina M. Kreger" <regina@kreger.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Tall skinny cherry tree pot
  • Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 16:36:43 -0400

Along with the two seedling pawpaws, I also received a Northstar cherry. It came in a pot 4" wide by 13.5" tall. I thought that was a little strange. It has roots along the whole 13.5", with at least one strong one all the way to the bottom, but of course it is very constrained. In fact I think it's dead. I think it arrived alive but died within a few days, faster than I could get it in a bigger container. I would have expected to get the pawpaws in a tall container since I've heard they have taproots, but I'd never heard that cherries have taproots. I suppose it was field-grown, and this is the root "ball" they dug up......

This is from a nursery about which I have never heard anything but good, so I won't name it without at least calling and talking to them about this. But since I am still a total novice fruit-grower, I thought I'd first ask you good folks if it seems weird to you too?

The 2 pawpaws, 1 fig, 1 peach, and 2 pears are all thriving, still in the pots they shipped in (well, I managed to pot up the fig and peach just now).




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