RE: [nndl] Re: Help Watering your trees - What about Pecans ?

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In regards to this message:

As one of the old Howard Nursery grunts I can pass on what Hank told us about water and trees: The feeder roots grow out to follow the edge of the growing canopy-the 'drip line' of the tree where the water runs off the tree and accumulates on the ground. So look up to where the tree's top reach and lay a drip line to soak.

   Species adapt ( and go extinct) but your individual trees are not necessarily going to survive a drought. Hank told us back in the fifties there was a five year drought that killed an entire generation of trees in Texas under a five inch caliber so for a while the gap in the generational spread of the trees was noticeable for a period of time.

 

take care,

Steve Coyle >
> Mary Patrick wrote:
> > I am not an arborist, not do I play one on TV. I assume that watering
> > any tree should follow the same rules - away from the trunk, and 5 to 10
> > feet away, over the roots - - but, I do believe that the trees, unlike
> > humans, know what to do. NO water - well - they do know how to adapt,
> > especially the native trees - like pecans.
> >
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