zxcvbob
15-08-2006, 05:30 PM
Jones wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a big mahan pecan tree in my yard. This is a self-fertile
> cultivar, and every year about this time, I find lots of baby seedling
> pecan trees growing under it.
>
> I want to transplant some, but I keep finding that I cannot dig them up
> deep enough to get all of the tap root, especially among the seedlings
> that are last year's stock. These "trees" are only maybe 12" tall and
> 1/8" or less thick, but their tap roots are often more than 12" long and
> 1/4" thick.
>
> I've always heard that if you break the tap root of a young tree, that
> it will either die or fail to thrive, but I wondered whether that's true
> or just an old wive's tale.
>
> I mean, we can take cuttings of trees and woody shrubs, and they will
> grow, so why can't a tap root regenerate itself?
>
> Thanks for any help or info.
>
My father planted a bunch of bare-root pecan trees. I don't recall any
of them having uncut tap roots when he bought them.
Bob
> Hello all,
>
> I have a big mahan pecan tree in my yard. This is a self-fertile
> cultivar, and every year about this time, I find lots of baby seedling
> pecan trees growing under it.
>
> I want to transplant some, but I keep finding that I cannot dig them up
> deep enough to get all of the tap root, especially among the seedlings
> that are last year's stock. These "trees" are only maybe 12" tall and
> 1/8" or less thick, but their tap roots are often more than 12" long and
> 1/4" thick.
>
> I've always heard that if you break the tap root of a young tree, that
> it will either die or fail to thrive, but I wondered whether that's true
> or just an old wive's tale.
>
> I mean, we can take cuttings of trees and woody shrubs, and they will
> grow, so why can't a tap root regenerate itself?
>
> Thanks for any help or info.
>
My father planted a bunch of bare-root pecan trees. I don't recall any
of them having uncut tap roots when he bought them.
Bob