Return to the Professional Gardener Forum
| Post a Follow-Up
staking trees
| | |
Posted by muddydogs wa (My Page) on Sat, Jun 3, 06 at 0:37
| Bought some trees last fall from Oregon; Albizzia julibrissen and Cercis c. Forest Pansy that have 4 ft stakes. Now they are 6 feet tall and are flopping over the stakes. To increase their cambium layer and make them stand on their own should they be wacked back? This wasn't a good deal if they gotta grow them another season to be sellable. Do you prune hard? |
Follow-Up Postings:
RE: staking trees
| | |
- Posted by bboy z8 WA USA (My Page) on
Wed, Jun 21, 06 at 17:17
| Do not top. Stake instead. |
RE: staking trees
| | |
| Improper staking is one of the biggest problems I see -- even among landscape contractors who charge top dollar in the SF Bay Area. The purpose of the stake (for a plant in the ground) is to support it. The stake ties must be attached in a figure-eight configuration so that the tree can move in the wind (which it needs to do to develop any taper). The stake must be removed as soon as the tree's roots have anchored it in the ground. |
|
|
|
|
