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Stop watering?

dougcrann
dougcrann Posts: 1,129
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At what point does you officially give up on a sapling? I planted 16 or so last year. Some were dug out of a neighbors yard...rest were from Arbor Day. Gophers took out several of them. Had a poly line running to all of them...but 2 of our dogs decided to have a tug of war with it. Couple that with damn every thing that could go wrong doing so and watering these things was put on the back burner. Several of the ones that the gophers didn't kill were hanging in there with no water. The other ones have no leaves...while the tips of the branches are brital one you move in some they are still flexible. Should I continue to water them or?
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  • dopey
    dopey Posts: 201
    I had a weeping cherry like that, no leaves, looked dead.  I decided to keep at it when I clicked off a couple branches like you said and they were green inside.  It took 2 years of patience, and it still looks like a Charlie Brown tree, but it's alive and looking better every year.
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  • Skiddymarker
    Skiddymarker Posts: 8,523
    What kind of wood are they? Maybe use them for smoke and try again..... :)
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  • dougcrann
    dougcrann Posts: 1,129
    Skiddymarker said:
    What kind of wood are they? Maybe use them for smoke and try again..... :)
    Far to small to burn...thanks to everything coming unglued at once,I missed our spring planting season...
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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
    dougcrann said:
    Skiddymarker said:
    What kind of wood are they? Maybe use them for smoke and try again..... :)
    Far to small to burn...thanks to everything coming unglued at once,I missed our spring planting season...
    Nah. You can absolutely use twigs to smoke with. Ignore all admonitions re bark. 

    Patio here usually has some oak twigs dropping from the tree overhead. Into the BGE they go (when cooking beef anyway)
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  • dougcrann
    dougcrann Posts: 1,129
    Darby_Crenshaw said:
    dougcrann said:
    Skiddymarker said:
    What kind of wood are they? Maybe use them for smoke and try again..... :)
    Far to small to burn...thanks to everything coming unglued at once,I missed our spring planting season...
    Nah. You can absolutely use twigs to smoke with. Ignore all admonitions re bark. 

    Patio here usually has some oak twigs dropping from the tree overhead. Into the BGE they go (when cooking beef anyway)
    The only thing on our property is Ponderosa Pine...and one Cottonwood. I planted several Red Maples. All but 2 are very very small. The other 2 have finally hit waste high. Planted 6 oaks...the gophers took out 4. Will be decades before any of what I planted is firewood lol...
    Wanted to plant a larger Sugar Maple this spring...but the window for it came and went...hoping I can get one in this fall...tired of seeing nothing but pines...
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  • johnmitchell
    johnmitchell Posts: 6,758
    @tarheelmatt.. Matt you got anything to add... :s
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Sounds like you need to go with either pouring concrete or plastic christmas trees.
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  • HeavyG
    HeavyG Posts: 10,380
    Sounds like you need to hire Carl Spackler.
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