I have a lot of pine trees to transplant, mostly Austrian and White pines. They vary in height from about 3' to 6'. I've transplanted several in the past and have only about a 50% success rate. Now, years ago I got quite a bit of experience planting and transplanting all kinds of plant material, so I'm not ignorant of it, but I must be doing something wrong. If any of you are true experts at this, could you shed some light on the tricks used to help these trees survive?
Dig hole 2x as large as root ball.
Plant tree, surround with fresh fertilizer. Straw on top of fresh earth
water, water, water for the 1st month
Water, water for the 2nd
Bone Meal
Pretty sure pines are tap rooted plants. Transplanting them can be difficult.
spitfirebill wrote: Pretty sure pines are tap rooted plants. Transplanting them can be difficult.
Correct. The problem is not so much planting them, it's digging them up. At 3-6' they already have a very well established tap root. Some will survive but it's easy to hurt the tap root. Give me a 1' pine and it will catch up to yours very quickly and probably be a superior tree.
It's a multi step process. Check with your local ag extension or google transplanting pines.If you're not satisfied with the info, email me.
Pines are 60' tall weeds. Go buy a hardwood seedling. :)
In reply to DILYSI Dave:
Already have hundreds of them. I need them for firewood. I need the pines for year 'round privacy.
Heh, I just had about 30 20-30 foot tall pines cut down. High winds were dropping a tree over the neighbor's fence every year or so.
The mass removal finished a couple weeks before we had more high winds and a few tornadoes in the area.
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