Lowe’s sells bare root pecan trees without a pond and they survive fine. Why are those trees different? When are your nuts going to drop? How are you going to handle harvesting remotely?
@alabamaking
6 ай бұрын
lol. I'm still trying to figure out why they died. It's not the soil. I've done soil tests. I think it was just because of the weeds which allow them to get diseased and possibly stressed. Poor management; but I'm still not 100% sure. I would buy my pecan trees from Lowe's but they're way too expensive. I don't think they're different. I think it's just all how you treat them . Also, the size of the potted trees played a big part in this, I believe. My potted trees were much smaller than I expected them to be. my bare root trees were five or 6 feet tall each. I was lucky if my potted trees were 4 foot tall. I'm probably, still, four or five years away from a good harvest. I'm hoping to stay on the property during harvesting season.
@davidryle1164
6 ай бұрын
How did you treat the bare root stock BEFORE you planted them??
@alabamaking
6 ай бұрын
Hmm... what exactly do you mean by treat them? The bare root Trees were wet down and put in a refrigerator truck with wet burlap I believe. When we got the trees to the property, we drop them straight into the pond until we were ready to drop them into the ground . Aside from trimming the roots and the taproot to the size of the hole not much else was done.
@alabamaking
6 ай бұрын
Any advice on this I'd appreciate.
@davidryle1164
6 ай бұрын
@alabamaking I managed a bare root operation for 15 years and apart from moisture around the roots and with some species, root pruning, sweating the stock to ensure that the waxy coating that shields the growth buds from dessication was essential. We'd lay the stocks on a sheet of plastic, spray the roots with water and then cover the stocks with another sheet of plastic. We would check the stocks every other day, and when buds were swelling and beginning to break, we would transfer to the field.
@alabamaking
6 ай бұрын
@@davidryle1164 Hmmm.... That is very interesting. I haven't heard that for Pecan trees. Were you sweating pecan trees? My understanding is that the growers, when they pull them up for delivery, they just drop them straight into water; I don't think they do any sweating at all. The plating takes place from November to the middle or end of Feb. So it's before the beginning of spring and the trees are completely dormant. The Pecan trees I believe have bud break in the middle of the spring to avoid any frost. Of the trees I lost, the root stock on some still lived. If I can get those to grow I will probably grow them out until they're big enough to graft the proper varietal onto.them.
@davidryle1164
6 ай бұрын
@alabamaking yeah, we sweated walnuts, pecans, Chinese chestnuts and quite a few ornamental, chief amongst them Cercis canadensis(eastern redbud), which without sweating, would have close to 90% failure to break bud. Get a soil test from your state university, it's a good value test and really gives you a solid sense of what that soil needs or doesn't. Just blindly applying lime is not a good idea. Think about it, if your soil is close to neutral and you apply lime, you can easily raise the pH to a point rendering certain micro nutrients that are essential to normal healthy growth unavailable. Also, dumping the roots in a pond, to wash and rinse them prior to sweating, sure. Allowing them to sit there for extended periods of time can instigate rot issues, not a good idea.
@71jolanc
6 ай бұрын
Sooo ... no pies yet?
@alabamaking
6 ай бұрын
My nuts haven't even come in yet. SMH LOL
@71jolanc
6 ай бұрын
😆@@alabamaking
@alabamaking
6 ай бұрын
@@71jolanc Thanks for the comment Jolan it actually allows me to tick off a tube buddy requirement of hearting a comment on youtube. LOL Also apparently anytime someone likes a post on Facebook that has a link to a video on it, that actually helps the google analytic. It's crazy how the programs keep track of everything even on other platforms. Hope you are well!
@alabamaking
6 ай бұрын
I'm not sure that bare root vs potted trees is as sexy as DR Power Brush Mower. LOL We will see.
@71jolanc
6 ай бұрын
@@alabamaking Doing well. Learned something new today with your video. It's a lot of work!
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