al said:
OK Roughbarked,never heard of that one.Bit hard to do that know as its in the ground and how would you work out which way it was growing,tied up in a bag in a nursery………….Regards,…….AL
OK..
well if nursries did care that your plant grew then they’d put a marker on the north side. The truth of it is and I have proven this,; that nurseries will go broke if your plants all live.
Thus it isn’t in the best interests of the nursery to lose your custom by showing you how to avoid killing your plants.
Ya dig?
Now for the benefit of those whom haven’t already read my comments on such details or those whom cannot go look it up for themselves:
Translocatiing plants goes on all the time and in many cases succeeds reasonaably well enough to keep people happy.
However, this is often due to the fact that the new positions of the plants are sheltered and the plants well cared for.
Totally different when the situations are not protected, water is not plentiful and little time is allotted for TLC.
If one translocates any plant that has been sitting in the one spot.. then one will always get the best results if one relocates the plant in exactly the same aspect. One may rotate a plant in a pot al day.. tiresome though it may seem… and get say an orchid to grow and flower equally all the way around the pot. However if one leaves the orchid in the same position it will grow towards the available light.
When moving deciduous trees it is eas to make the mistakes due to the fact that it all looks dead but one knows that it is only dormant and thus believes that it will know what to do when the time comes for it to put on new growth.
The sunny side of any dormant tree will have stronger growth which glistens with health. The bark will be more robust and thicker, if there are less mature branches still attached you will note that the tops of the branches will differ similarly from the undersurfaces of the same branch.. Same goes for the north and south sides(in the southern hemishere). These younger branches will also show different colourations, ie; say in a peac or nectarine etc the surfaces that face north will be reddish and the surfaces facing south will be greenish.
If you face the thin bark to the north rather than to the south, then east becomes west and vice versa. Tis is a total disater to the well being of the tree.. Not because it makes the tree dizzy all this spinning around but more becase it exposes soft easterly bark to the searing westerly sun and that the shady side of the tree now faces the full aspect of the sun. Results usually = scalding of the bark, imminent death of at least one side of the branch, imminent entry of all manner of disease and termites etc., eventual death of the whole tree.