OT Watering new Trees

John B. · May 6, 2012

I drilled a tiny hole in the side of one of my 5 gallon buckets, about an inch above the bottom so it doesn't clog. I set it next to one of my little trees, filled it with water and it takes over an hour for it to empty and no water runs off. I've heard of people doing this with
55 gallon barrells also. I'm gonna get a couple of more buckets and use them on my tomato and pepper plants.

Russ from MN · May 6, 2012

I have heard of people doing that,it's a good idea. The trouble is I would need 500 buckets! Up on the Canadian border where our tree farm is it is very dry. We planted 300 Norway spruce this year and watered them along with 200 white spruce from last year. We planted some white pine and white cedar but they were in old growth ash where the ground is more damp. If the ash bug is coming I have to get something else growing, but the trouble with pine and cedar is you have to spray them so the deer don't eat them!

Richard from SE AZ · May 6, 2012

We had a Beautiful Ash in our front yard. Pretty much dead now. Tiny little holes all over the trunk. A few green leaves here and there. Is that the Ash bug?? Time for the chain saw. Darn!!!

led · May 6, 2012

Bare rooted trees & balled burlap need watering for at least the first 2 years. Larger transplants do better with cicular ooze hose around drip-line. If you have a lot of trees & can use gutters to fill water tank. Transplant shock (1st. year) seams to be most critical.
HTH
Led

Russ from MN · May 6, 2012

I just googled the emerald ash borer and I don't think it should be that far south. The holes that it leaves in the bark are D shaped, flat side down. Google it, there is lots of information. We spent some time in AZ last winter, didn't see to many ash type trees in your corner!

Anonymous-0 · May 7, 2012

I plant a piece of plastic pipe near the tree and about 6'' above ground, then fill up a two litre plastic bottle with water and set the neck down the pipe, it will slowly water the tree.

Anonymous-0 · May 7, 2012

The D shaped hole EAB leaves is about 1/4" in diameter. Ask a local tree service, or landscaper what is eating your tree, it doesn't sound like EAB.

Anonymous-0 · May 7, 2012

Thing to use, are used 1-3 gallon plastic nursery planting pots, they already have 3 holes in the bottom, bury them uphill from the plant you want to water. My grandfather used 1 gallon cans, from institutional food cans, and poked holes in them, with an awl. He got a long privet hedge to grow that way, just taking 2 buckets of water, to as many cans as that would fill, each morning.

641Dave · May 7, 2012

Last year I parked a 55 gallon drum in the middle of several trees and ran water lines off of it. That way I just park the hose in the drum instead of watering each tree. With the drought we had I still lost allot of bare root trees.

This year I planted in December and will do so from here on out. I have some trees still in pots that I'll keep close to the house and nurse them until fall. In case we go through another drought I don't want to be pulling so much water hose.

I planted 25 crape myrtles, several oaks and 100 advance generation loblolly elites this year. The loblollies are flat out taking off with all the intermittent rain we've been getting.

This is just the growth from March!

Anonymous-0 · May 9, 2012

Not this one then??

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraxinus

showcrop · May 9, 2012

I worked for a landscaper one summer years ago. He had us put a good slug of peat moss around each tree with dirt over it to act as a reservoir between rains.

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