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Old 06-01-2004, 02:43 AM
Jim Lewis
 
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Default Length of tap root on an oak tree?


"Bruce W.1" wrote in message
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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