A good rule of thumb is an inch a week, best if supplied slowly over one day,
then none the other six days. I
love those single tree soaker rings, but they do tie up a hose. Another way
to look at it is: one 5 gallon pail of
water once a week every week unless you have had torrential downpours on a
waterlogged soil. A favorite
pomologist once told the (true) story of a nurseryman friend of his in
Lousiana that got a reputation of selling
trees that you could count on living. He guaranteed every tree if they would
dissolve a "magic growth pill" in
a pail of water and give it to the tree each week. He supplied a generous
amount of magic pills with every
tree sold. Miraculously, almost every tree he sold lived and thrived. He
confided to my friend that the magic
pill was generic aspirin- he just wanted people to supply water regularly.
Best of luck with your tree.
Yorrba
On Sun, 13 May 2001 21:29:31 -0400, Ginda Fisher wrote:
>Last spring I put in a small Jonathan on M111. (It was small enough
>that Hilltop apologized for lack of stock, and asked if I wanted it
>anyway.) The "root" was mostly a stem, with a few scraggly roots
>trailing off. It did okay last year, but after I pruned it this spring
>it wasn't much taller than a year ago. (It has branches, though.)
>
>Two questions:
>
>1) How much water does it need this year? (Counting rain, of course.)
>
>2) How much water does it want for optimal growth?
>
>Thanks,
>Ginda Fisher
>Eastern Mass., zone 6
>
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