Transplanting older fruit trees.

[Ty Korrigan]

So, many French orchard owners are ripping out their trees, mostly climate change related.

Some are selling them off for a mere €10 each but with very little root.

What are the chances of these surviving transplanting in this condition?

 Worth a punt?

 (Not my trees)

      Stuart

[peds]

I mean, for a tenner, you've nothing to lose, have you. Bit late in the year though, especially for you over there on the continent. 

Give them a buzz cut after they're in the ground and cross your fingers? 

[Mark Bolam]

Pointless wasting any time on them, they’re toast.

[monkeybusiness]

I’d try them as a freebie if local

and I could take them immediately from being pulled out but I definitely wouldn’t pay anything for them.

[sime42]

I'd have to agree about them being a waste of time, mores the pity. There's sod all effective roots on them. What a waste, if only the lazy buggers had dug out a bit further around the rootball.

 

@Ty Korrigan - what particular aspects of climate change are driving the orchard owners to rip them out? Too hot, too wet, too dry? Wondering if we'll see similar over here in a year or few.

[peds]

3 minutes ago, sime42 said:

 

 

@Ty Korrigan - what particular aspects of climate change are driving the orchard owners to rip them out? Too hot, too wet, too dry? Wondering if we'll see similar over here in a year or few.

 

Orchards don't fare well when they are on fire.

 

Big droughts planned for France too I think. 

[Ty Korrigan]

Drought, frosts at the wrong time as seasons alter and in some areas regular and outrageous bombardment by golf ball sized hail year after year.

[5thelement]

9 hours ago, peds said:

 

Orchards don't fare well when they are on fire.

 

Big droughts planned for France too I think. 

It’s been the wettest Winter anyone can remember so far.

[Botty Cough]

1 hour ago, 5thelement said:

It’s been the wettest Winter anyone can remember so far.

Good .

Hopefully the french trash and the people like you who live there will finally have a wash.😂

[Botty Cough]

12 hours ago, Ty Korrigan said:

So, many French orchard owners are ripping out their trees, mostly climate change related.

Some are selling them off for a mere €10 each but with very little root.

What are the chances of these surviving transplanting in this condition?

 Worth a punt?

 (Not my trees)

      Stuart

Best bet there for me would be to salvage as much of the timber as possible and make something nice.

Maybe cut it on the quarter and retrieve some sort of wood for furniture etc etc