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a danger to young trees by supports
I never realized that supporting a tree trunk when a sapling would be
injurious. The first acquintance to this phenomenon was when I cleaned out a woodlot where I wanted to save all the spruce but remove the elm and ash and mulberry that was crowding out the spruce. So what happened when all the spruce were cleaned of the weed trees growing in their midsts is that some of them lost weight support for as the wind would blow them against the hardwoods. So in a good wind last year, I lost one of my spruce with two others tipping towards possible calamity. So what happened is that the trees used each other for support and they just kept growing taller. So trees monitor their surroundings and if they have support they grow too tall and when the support is removed, they precariously are prone to wind damage. This happened recently on my other trees which I had put tomato cages on them and chicken wire to protect them from rabbits. I did this to rock-elm and apricots. And when I removed the cages they were spindly and branches drooped to the ground. If I had not caged them, they would have grown properly with strength to cope with wind. So it is dangerous for young trees to be improperly supported because the tree never grows properly in strength to fight against the weather. And if you leave the cages on too long and then remove, many of the branches or main trunck is damaged or lost in a stormy wind. So I have found that young trees are best kept without any form of support, if that support is improperly applied. A proper support is where the tree can withstand wind if the support is removed. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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a danger to young trees by supports
"a_plutonium" schreef
I never realized that supporting a tree trunk when a sapling would be injurious. The first acquintance to this phenomenon was when I cleaned out a woodlot where I wanted to save all the spruce but remove the elm and ash and mulberry that was crowding out the spruce. So what happened when all the spruce were cleaned of the weed trees growing in their midsts is that some of them lost weight support for as the wind would blow them against the hardwoods. So in a good wind last year, I lost one of my spruce with two others tipping towards possible calamity. So what happened is that the trees used each other for support and they just kept growing taller. So trees monitor their surroundings and if they have support they grow too tall *** Trees grow to fit their surroundings. This is not proper or improper. What is improper is to abrubtly change the surroundings of a tree. Replanting trees, cutting down neighbouring trees or taking down neighbouring buildings: these changes always affect trees, sometimes catastrophically. PvR |
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