Re: Tree help

Posted by Txguy on September 09, 2005 at 04:47:46 from (205.188.117.6):

In Reply to: Re: Tree help posted by Les on September 09, 2005 at 03:50:27:

Hey, that's a great link! I see I was told most of what that said anyway. I didn't see mention of digging twice as deep, but it did say 3 times as wide. Now that would have saved a lot of back breaking digging. As for staking, yes indeed I always had to stake. The soil there was that black gumbo, and getting it to settle and fill all the voids was nearly impossible so the tree would be very loose in the ground for quite some time even after watering over and over. The key was to not have it too tight, and in the spring as it started to grow you had to loosen the wire a few times until it was finally removed which I normally did in the summer because we had so much wind in the spring. One year I bought 2 live oak trees in the winter at a nursery cheap since it was out of season. They were potted, and about 5 feet tall when I planted them. 2 years later I dug one up as it was too close to the other one, and too close to the house (plan ahead, me?). I did this the week between Christmas and New Years. Neeless to say, I had already chosen it's new home and had the hole dug and ready before digging up the tree. I transplanted exactly as I said with the exception that I left it staked for 2 years as it was about 7 feet tall when I moved it and pretty spindly. I think I had to put slack in the wire a half dozen times over that 2 year period, but it did quite well and actully when we sold that place the transplanted tree was larger and looked better than the mate that I didn't move.

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