I have a 4 year old Cordyline now exceeding 12 feet in height. What -
at the moment - is the likely root spread?

Another one is three yrs old and now exceeds six feet. What is its
likely root spread?

I ask because I have concerns over possible drain damage.

Thank you

Jon

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I have a 4 year old Cordyline now exceeding 12 feet in height. What -
at the moment - is the likely root spread?

Another one is three yrs old and now exceeds six feet. What is its
likely root spread?

I ask because I have concerns over possible drain damage.

Thank you

Jon

I dug one up of a similar size (12') and the root ball was about 3 foot
diameter. It was mostly a mass of fine roots with the tap root going down as
a continuation of the trunk. Not at all like a normal tree.

mark

"Jonathon" wrote
I have a 4 year old Cordyline now exceeding 12 feet in height. What -
at the moment - is the likely root spread?

Another one is three yrs old and now exceeds six feet. What is its
likely root spread?

I ask because I have concerns over possible drain damage.

Mine seem to go straight down with only small fibrous roots radiating out
from the trunk.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London

sorry to come in here mark,

missed the original thread.

they don't need much root at all, we dug one out just over 2 meters
tall and many trunked had so little root it could almost have fitted
into a 2 gallon pot you should see it now neer looked back.

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I have a 4 year old Cordyline now exceeding 12 feet in height. What -
at the moment - is the likely root spread?

Another one is three yrs old and now exceeds six feet. What is its
likely root spread?

I ask because I have concerns over possible drain damage.

Thank you

Jon

relax they do not have a reputation as drain damagers
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

As a thought experiment, not a recommendation, if you were to chop the top off and put it in on the ground without the trunk, it would look like some clumping perennial, and not very big. Yet that is all the leaves it has got. A 12ft cordyline is a lot less plant than a "proper" 12ft tree, and so doesn't need any where near as much root as one of those.