Re: Moving Japanese Maple -- Sequel
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Moving Japanese Maple -- Sequel
- From: S* W*
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 08:50:09 -0400
You are all too wonderful -- I'm getting optimistic. Our trunk isn't nearly
as thick -- I can encircle it with my thumb/forefinger if I stretch a bit
-- So would 15 inches all around be sufficient, you think?
silke
At 12:06 AM 4/7/2000 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 4/6/2000 10:10:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>mtalt@CLARK.NET writes:
>
><< Wouldn't recommend it...maples, as someone else said, are relatively
> shallow rooted (more than 2" down, however :->) >>
>hey all,
>we just xplanted some japanese maples that have been in the ground for at
>least 25 years. the root systems were cut of at about 20" from each side of
>the trunks. the trunks were about 6" in diameter. we moved them to another
>part of the job, where we watered them in every day.
>
>buds were starting to swell on the one tree, and were already unfurled when
>we moved the second. we're praying our timing was ok on the second one.
>btw, they were both reds and both in full sun.
>
>i'll send pix if there's a way for y'all to see them.
>
>Cindy Johnson & Harry Abel
>we do not create the beauty, we only point out the beauty God has created
>
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