Re: Tree transplanting
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- Subject: Re: Tree transplanting
- From: M* T*
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:09:06 -0500
Most interesting idea! Would solve the problem *if* the gardener
(me) could remember to turn the inside pot:-) I'd likely forget and
have the roots traveling from drainage holes in inside pot out
drainage holes in outside pot and it would be even more fun to
extract them....
For those with better brains, seems like a good way to go up to say 5
gallon pot size. Assume most growers doing this are sending plants
to market at smaller sizes?
So, what do growers do about the drainage? Could be tricky in
winter, I imagine...have lost considerable potted plants held in open
plunge beds to ice that melted at the top and flooded the crown but
remained frozen below, stopping all drainage and making it impossible
to remove the pot from the frozen mulch to dump it.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: LONDE@aol.com
> Date: Monday, March 27, 2000 11:11 PM
>
> In a message dated 3/27/00 6:52:42 PM Central Standard Time,
mtalt@clark.net
> writes:
>
> > If you plant them in pots and bury the pots, the roots will tend
to
> > grow out the drainage holes in one season and you end up with a
real
> > mess....voice of experience here:-)
>
> Many commercial growers now use a 'pot-in-pot' system. The first,
slightly
> larger pot is buried in the ground. The seedling is planted in a
second pot
> which fits inside the first pot. Several times a season the inside
pot is
> rotated and this keeps the roots pruned. This method has all of
the
> advantages of both field and container growing. The seedlings have
the winter
> protection of being in the ground and can be easily moved, when the
time
> comes, without having to dig and b&b.
>
> If anyone is thinking of trying this at home, give some thought to
drainage
> as this can be tricky. --Janis
>
>
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