Rootballs versus Bareroot your opinions

[Goaty]

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[bob]

Agreed entirely

Also footballs need watering regularly as they have generally been used to that.

Personally most of the trees I am involved with are st trees and have found footballs planted in very poor soil rubble Tarmac ect don't get established as little reason to put new roots out and bare rooted take better if hardly any nutrients put in they just seem to buckle down and fight to live.

Obviously every area is different but those are the main reasons I use bare rather balled.

The cost of watering is fenominal

Interestingly I am converted to containerised and gone of bare rooted

Still not a fan of root balled as n the hessian and wire type as found they are often bare rooted with a bit of soil and not established in the ball

Mainly get from a supplier in Suffolk that specialise in quality trees and found the tree form better and less hassle storing transporting and keeping stored and healed in.

[fagus]

Thanks for the information. My experience is a that you need to know your supplier. How has the bare root and burlapped stock has been handled i.e how long has it been out of the ground and how and where has it been stored ?

If you grow some of your own stock the out of ground time can be kept to minimum, restocking costs minimised and tighter quotes given.

Some schemes fail because already dead plants are put in the ground.

Watering of large is stock is a must do.

[Goaty]

Thanks for the information. My experience is a that you need to know your supplier. How has the bare root and burlapped stock has been handled i.e how long has it been out of the ground and how and where has it been stored ?

 

If you grow some of your own stock the out of ground time can be kept to minimum, restocking costs minimised and tighter quotes given.

 

Some schemes fail because already dead plants are put in the ground.

 

Watering of large is stock is a must do.

 

 

 

Agreed on all counts fagus. Not an anti Europe rant but imported stock suffers high failure rate I think due to time in cold stores and transit. The cheap barefoot fruit trees in supermarkets are major victims. Lifted early season in Eastern Europe when they know the weather won't hold them up. Dehydrated in cold store. Bit like veg in the fridge. Shipped. Handled, packed reshipped. Arrive at store exhausted.

Also sadly the anything for a sale practices of some nurseries. They insist on saying pot grown is ready when it's only being potted a few weeks.

Knowing your nursery and them knowing your high expectations should help. Hopefully they will be honest and say when stuff is not ready.

 

 

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