Hi

In my garden I have a conker tree, which was set by my son from a conker about 12 years ago, it has travelled with us from property to property. As we don't have a large enough garden it is in a pot. I exchanged the pot this year for a much larger one, a half barrel, and the resulting increase in growth has been phenomenal, it has exceeded last years growth by about 5 times already. The thing is I'm not sure how to care for it correctly in its new envigorated state. The tree itself is very robust, its now about 8 feet tall, however the leaves are drooping quite badly, I'm wondering if I've over watered it. I've given it no water for about 3 days now but it doesn't seem to be improving, I suppose what I'm asking, in a very long winded way is how much water do I give this tree. Its very precious to us by the way, even more so now as my son who planted it has been critically ill recently with a brain tumour, although he is now doing magnificently well after surgery. Any advice would be much appreciated

Thanks

Simon Ward

"Simon" wrote
In my garden I have a conker tree, which was set by my son from a
conker about 12 years ago, it has travelled with us from property to
property. As we don't have a large enough garden it is in a pot. I
exchanged the pot this year for a much larger one, a half barrel, and
the resulting increase in growth has been phenomenal, it has exceeded
last years growth by about 5 times already. The thing is I'm not sure
how to care for it correctly in its new envigorated state. The tree
itself is very robust, its now about 8 feet tall, however the leaves
are drooping quite badly, I'm wondering if I've over watered it. I've
given it no water for about 3 days now but it doesn't seem to be
improving, I suppose what I'm asking, in a very long winded way is how
much water do I give this tree. Its very precious to us by the way,
even more so now as my son who planted it has been critically ill
recently with a brain tumour, although he is now doing magnificently
well after surgery. Any advice would be much appreciated

The new bigger pot does have drainage holes in the base doesn't it?
If so I don't see how you could overwater it unless it sits in a water tray
filled with water. A bad idea for most plants.
Perhaps in it's invigorated state it needs a good feed.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK

Hi Bob

thanks, I gave it a good feed yesterday evening (miraclegrow) and its responded really well. I've been advised today that it should be watered little and often and that giving it loads of water all at once (which is what I was doing) can have a detrimental effect. Oh and yes the pot does have a drainage hole

thanks alot

Kind regards

Simon Ward, Notts

Simon wrote:
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Hi Bob

thanks, I gave it a good feed yesterday evening (miraclegrow) and its
responded really well. I've been advised today that it should be
watered little and often and that giving it loads of water all at once
(which is what I was doing) can have a detrimental effect. Oh and yes
the pot does have a drainage hole

thanks alot

Just a thought because this is obviously an important tree for your
family - I'm not sure how long it will be happy living in a container,
however large. These are forest trees after all! So - to avert total
disaster if it does die one day, may I suggest that you take some of
its own conkers and start those off, too? That way you will be sort of
cloning it and will never truly lose it.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon

Thanks Sacha

As soon as the tree produces conkers we had already ddecided to set some of them in a local woodland, altough it has as yet produced nothing. I think it might now tough as it is in a much bigger pot

Simon

hi there, i was just finding out about conker trees myself, if you read this page, i think you'll find your answer!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...species.uknews
hope this helps sorry to hear about your son