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Feeding Walnut Tree
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I have a walnut tree currently in a pot (I am growing it from a nut, its about 2 foot high now) and I would like to feed it, whats the best food for walnut trees ? Thanks |
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Feeding Walnut Tree
I would think layer of mulch and manure would give it all it needs.
I've got a black walnut in a *LARGE* pot. The tree started in a small patch under the awnings and I felt that wasn't exactly the best place for a tree to get established. Concrete and asphalt near, plus with the roof over head prompted me to dig it up. To my surprise, for such a small sprout of a tree at one and a half feet tall the tap root was long and deep. I had to take a chance and cut the root to pot it. It's been several years and that little black walnut is still kicking. I'm not surprised. I found the nuts at the base of an old tree on the edge of brackish water and a levee bordering San Francisco Bay. The valley used to be rich with walnut orchards so I figured this was some original stock. But with English walnut stock being grafted to the Black Walnut trunks as I understand, are the means of an english nut for harvest and eating. The black walnut being heartier and resistant to disease than the english root stock. We used to have four walnut trees in our back yard when I was a kid. Two were black walnuts. Each about two feet in diameter. The others were grafted english on black. One was at least five feet in diameter. Huge! Tall, fun to climb, but real messy. Sticky sap all over as it dripped, rather misted from the tree. You could see it through a setting sun falling and covering everything. The runts (parents) had them removed eventually. For the pool. Which they had installed long after us kids moved out, go figure. So this leads to a question? Can I snip a branch off of an english walnut tree of the same size diameter as the black and with proper grafting technique have a chance? It's about a half inch in diameter. Or should I, could I use a sucker from an english walnut? There are a couple nearby I've been meaning to ask the property owner if I could snip a couple. But I need to have everything in place first. Jeff Adrian wrote: Hiya I have a walnut tree currently in a pot (I am growing it from a nut, its about 2 foot high now) and I would like to feed it, whats the best food for walnut trees ? Thanks |
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