Just tryin to give back.....

[l2edneck]

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drake elm 3 in cal 30 gal
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beggin to breathe
perty tree
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(ran outta light for finish pic but landed a nice landscape next door for the weekend):deadhorse:
Good Work Leads to more!!!!

 

[Ekka]

Nice to see future work being planted.

That second pic, was that a girdling root?

 

[l2edneck]

never heard it called girdling but yes i tried to get the wrap around root in pic 2. is that good or bad? i think its kinda like self feeding which in my eyes makes it more dominant when put in new ground to expand it
(drake elm planted in basically sand/swamp in a sub-tropic zone)any feed back is well appreciated and noted
I all kinds of earth bound work
big green p**ssy i am (aslong as theres perty blooms)
hehe

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Nice to see future work being planted.

That second pic, was that a girdling root?

I don't knowif it is girdling, due to the depth. Though it did not look like there was a flair visible on the top of the ball.

This is a huge problem with container grown material (the worst type to get).

1 year containerized is my limit. These are field grown then transfered to pots. Though i do not plant much of anything these days.

Studies I've looked at by Smiley, Zilmer or Johnson show that encircling roots below the flair do not girdle, but can lead to root rot when the tree is older. the though is that it is caused by friction and failed attempts to graft, or partial grafting.

 

[treeseer]

"i tried to get the wrap around root in pic 2."

Does this mean you tried to straighten it, or cut it? That's a big circling root, too fat to straighten and too big to cut without risking branch dieback. Looking at the size of the tree and the size of the pot, you had to know there are bad circlers.

Check Buying and Planting in the link below--Finding the Flare is Job #1. It's no fun to plant a tree then watch it decline years later because the nursery kept it in a small pot for too long.

Good on you to plant something, but next time remember that good root systems make good trees, and bad root systems do not.:bang: