EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Pensmaster]

I'm planting two to three trees in a single "hole", 24" apart. Minimum hole size for one tree 3' x 3' from guidance I read. The 6' x 4' hole is for a pair of trees (Anna and Ein Shemer). 

- Ant Farm 

Fire are these dwarf trees? Even my small trees
are 15 to 20 feet apart.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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I'm doing multiple trees per hole (see this link):

http://www.davewilson.com/home-gardens/backyard-orchard-culture

Tighter spacing, will be keeping them small with pruning. Different approach than traditional.

- Ant Farm

 

[kwhites634]

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I'm planting two to three trees in a single "hole", 24" apart. Minimum hole size for one tree 3' x 3' from guidance I read. The 6' x 4' hole is for a pair of trees (Anna and Ein Shemer).

- Ant Farm
We bought a live Christmas tree shortly after moving here 43 years ago. After Christmas we put it in a galvanized tub in the basement...the ground was frozen. The ground stayed frozen that year 'til sometime in April. I finally got a hole dug enough to set the root ball in, barely, covered it up and watered it. That's all it's ever had done to / for it; it's got to be 40' tall now, maybe more. Any more & the FAA's going to make me put a red blinking light at the top to keep planes from hitting it

 

[Pensmaster]

I'm doing multiple trees per hole (see this link):

http://www.davewilson.com/home-gardens/backyard-orchard-culture

Tighter spacing, will be keeping them small with pruning. Different approach than traditional.

- Ant Farm

Nice so your making bonsai in a way. Good idea

 

[Pensmaster]

We bought a live Christmas tree shortly after moving here 43 years ago. After Christmas we put it in a galvanized tub in the basement...the ground was frozen. The ground stayed frozen that year 'til sometime in April. I finally got a hole dug enough to set the root ball in, barely, covered it up and watered it. That's all it's ever had done to / for it; it's got to be 40' tall now, maybe more. Any more & the FAA's going to make me put a red blinking light at the top to keep planes from hitting it 

Yep former owner did he same here. Monster trees now. $1500 dollars later they've been trimmed and removed.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Speaking of Chaos, I noticed him in the lurker box a while ago. You 'spose he's doing a full readback?

 

[kwhites634]

Quote:
I'm doing multiple trees per hole (see this link):

http://www.davewilson.com/home-gardens/backyard-orchard-culture

Tighter spacing, will be keeping them small with pruning. Different approach than traditional.

- Ant Farm
What happened to everything being bigger in Texas?

 

[ocap]

I'm doing multiple trees per hole (see this link):

http://www.davewilson.com/home-gardens/backyard-orchard-culture

Tighter spacing, will be keeping them small with pruning. Different approach than traditional.

- Ant Farm

my mom did something similar with flowering trees, great idea! Pictures when they bloom, please.

 

[BullChick]

Going to bed in a few. I already told Duckling that she could not get up before the sun tomorrow. LOL!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote:
I'm doing multiple trees per hole (see this link):

http://www.davewilson.com/home-gardens/backyard-orchard-culture

Tighter spacing, will be keeping them small with pruning. Different approach than traditional.

- Ant Farm
What happened to everything being bigger in Texas?

Seriously, though, they need to be kept short enough for me to manage, and keeping them small means more trees in less space. We'll see how it goes.

Quote: Will do, but they'll be ugly first year because I'll need to do the big pruning for size/structure in the spring.

- Ant Farm