"Bruce W.1" wrote in message
...
I've got some acorns soaking in water and I'm starting to see
some
action. Now I'm trying to figure out how big of a pot to put
them in.
In the spring they will be planted in the ground.
How long of a tap root do these babies make? Or how deep
should the pot
be?
Thanks for your help.
Any standard nursery pot will be fine. Use a soil that drains
well. Dunno where you live, but unless you live in an arid (or
very windy) clime, trees don't "need" a taproot, and many trees
will lose theirs after the seedling stage. Most of the useful
roots of a tree are within the first few inches of the soil
surface.
Jim Lewis -
- Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson