In article . com, Sandy
Beotches wrote:


Well thanks to all of you for confirming that I have wasted my money ;-P

At least they were on sale :-)


I do not know if your trees are container grown or field harvested but
thought it might be helpful to pass along another factoid. Skip Richter
on the KLRU garden show said a question he gets sometimes is a person has
a tree that thrives for 6-7 years and then declines. The reason he
offered was that some fast growing trees stay in their containers too long
at the stores and develop girdling roots. This is not a problem when the
tree is young, but eventurally as the tree grows the girdling roots kill
the tree.

When you have any container grown plant, this is a possibility and since
you just bought yours you should check to make sure they do not have the
problem and cut away roots that appear to circling the container so as to
stop the problem now (before it is too late).

Roland