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Transplant shock-ring porous v diffuse porous


Gary Prentice
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Planted a lime and an oak in March, RB, 14-16cm, and the clients rang to say the lime is in full leaf but the oak hasn't moved.

 

I explained about oak being later into leaf due to being ring porous, but looking at today began to wonder about the relationship (if there is one) between transplant shock and ring porous trees.

 

Do r.p trees suffer more?

 

My thoughts are along the lines that new planting has initially to grow new roots and create vessels before the foliage breaks, i.e greater energy demands in ring porous as opposed to diffuse, so growth would be more retarded.

 

Is my thinking utter nonsense? I haven't researched it yet but thought I'd ask for thoughts and opinions.

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Hi gary im by no means an expert on this and i have very little experience in transplanting trees but i was led to believe the first 1 year is critical due to the ratio of leaves to feeder roots,obviously a loss of some feeder roots will prevent a flow of nutrients to the leaf.

What age was the tree when replanted and how long ago was it planted?

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Age unknown, but extra heavy standard, planted in march.

 

After a bit of reading, I found out that trees with bigger, courser roots like oak are slower to initiate new roots than those with fine fibrous roots. Just one of the factors in TS.

 

I saw the tree again yesterday, the lime looks good but the oaks not moving. Not concerned, as yet, at least for another week or two. I just wondered if there is a relationship between delay in leading, after planting, and ring porous trees.

 

Young oaks here haven't all developed full sized leaves, as yet, anyway.

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Not natural, believe it or not Saddleworth had 3-4 weeks without any rain over April and May.

 

The client had strict instructions on the watering requirements and it's so important, to him, that these survive that if I told him to sing to them every morning, I believe he would. :biggrin:

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