"Rusty Mase" wrote in message
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| On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:57:24 GMT, "Texensis"
| wrote:
|
| Live oaks grow much faster than people commonly believe.
|
| Yes, and the occassional reference to 400 year-old specimens always
| rings a little funny to me.
|
| A healthy young live oak, properly transplanted should be growing at
a
| rate of diameter increase of at least 1/2 inch per year. Thus a 2"
| container plant transplanted correctly with good soils and care
should
| approach 8" diameter in less than 10 years.
|
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These trees, spindly and short in the photo, are now at least two and
a half stories tall and not one has a trunk that anybody can come
close to getting one's arms around. The canopy of each of course
extends much, much farther than in the photo.