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- From: "Regina M. Kreger" <regina@kreger.net>
- To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Tall skinny cherry tree pot
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 20:26:36 -0400
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Darn, Tanis, my bf didn't think I should give up on it either. I guess
I'd better shove some dirt back around it again so I can pot it up
tomorrow. Altho I have not much hope for it. It had begun to leaf out
but baby leaflets dried up. It's 14" tall above what I take to be the
graft union. I think I saw somewhere that it is on Morello rootstock,
altho I can't find that now and anyway isn't Northstar a genetic
dwarf? Why graft to something else? I assumed field-grown because the
nursery specified some others (the fig, the peach, one of the pears) as
being greenhouse grown (so needing hardening off), tho now that you
mention it the pawpaws weren't among those either and I guessed
pot-grown. I dunno, I guess it was grown in that pot. Still seems an
odd choice, to me. Of 7 fruit trees in the same order, only the
cherry came in that sort of pot. tanis grif wrote: How tall or how many years old is the cherry tree? If it looks WAY too old for the pot size, I'd say the pot volume rather than shape is to blame. BUT, also consider a cause of death might have been too much winter cold on the roots. I've been having trouble getting seedlings & 1-yr-old black-cherry thru a winter, in pots, because even with "good" storage, the roots just can't take it. Tops leaf out in spring, and mostly eventually cave. Are you sure it's a field-grown tree squeezed into this pot? I just can't picture any nursery-owner putting toothpaste back in the tube! I think these pots are becoming standard for some growers; the tree probably got its start in that pot. Some parts of the country had a bit worse cold punishment than other winters. Or possibly the shipment was exposed to that extreme cold we had in early April-- NOT necessarily blaming the nursery. Have you given up on this tree? I'm seeing some slooowwww recovery on some pears I transplanted just before that cold snap, and I thought were dead. Gardeners always need more planting space, but I hate to pull these up yet! --- "Regina M. Kreger" <> wrote: |
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[NAFEX] Tall skinny cherry tree pot,
Regina M. Kreger, 05/12/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Tall skinny cherry tree pot,
tanis grif, 05/12/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Tall skinny cherry tree pot, Regina M. Kreger, 05/12/2007
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- Re: [NAFEX] Tall skinny cherry tree pot, Anton Callaway, 05/14/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Tall skinny cherry tree pot,
tanis grif, 05/12/2007
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