A question

[Steve Bullman]

We've all gone to pick up lumps of poplar in the yard that have rooted into the ground, but what about if they are upside down....could they still root?

The job I was on today there was a big stem that had obviously been knocked out of the tree and dug in the ground so deep they couldn't get it out and left it.....not a problem as it was in the middle of a woodland. This piece clearly hadn't rooted, but it did get us debating wether or not it was possible?

[arbwork]

I have seen sets growing from being put in wrong way up both willow and pops

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Gets you thinking about just how adaptive trees can be when stressed. Interesting that Pops and Willow can do this so quickly, the upside down bit I mean.

[slack ma girdle]

Nothing will stop poplar from trying to regrow.

My stack put out shoots waiting to be picked up, about a foot of growth in ten days.

[Bearded Munch]

I have pulled willow out of a river which had rooted itself in full flow.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I dont think it works upside down due o the way vessels work?

[skyhuck]

I dont think it works upside down due o the way vessels work?

 

 

On there side is fine, I would not think upside down.

[Steve Bullman]

I dont think it works upside down due o the way vessels work?

 

This was our thinking

[18 stoner]

I would expect it could start rooting as the cut "top" is next to a possible rooting "bottom" of a log(hence it can root from any point), but its likely not to survive as the vasclar system will not run in the opposite direction.

[geoff]

It would possibly root,then if it survived in the ideal environment throw suckers up from the new root system.