Can/do plants propagated asexually by cutting form taproots ?
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Recipe for using deep-taproot plants to break up soil compaction?
Comments (18).. gardengal48, Thanks for the reply. I donâÂÂt have the resources to invest in a rain garden right now. All but one of our downspouts empties on to our property either directly or across the driveway and then onto the grass. IâÂÂll divert the last one from the street before the season starts in earnest. The lawn out front slopes away from the house and IâÂÂve noticed when IâÂÂve left a sprinkler on too long during my weekend deep watering routines it will leak through crack in the pavement to the street and quite some distance from the sprinkler. We have a winter rainy season and remain pretty dry the rest of the year. So we get a lot of rain during one season and our soil out front just isnâÂÂt holding it in. I planted a couple of trees out front and I think thatâÂÂs starting to do the trick on one side. The other side has an old tree right smack in the middle. IâÂÂve been propagating California poppies from an 89 cent pack of seeds I bought as an impulse buy in a drug store some time ago. I threw some seeds around when we first moved in and from the couple that thrived we now have them spreading about as I harvested the seeds over time. I go around and trim them in an attempt to keep them going all year long so their taproots keep running deeper and become more substantial. Time to spread a bunch of the seeds I saved now that itâÂÂs the end of November. One of these days IâÂÂll find some other suitable natives to plant. Native California plants offered are often Northern California and not always suited for our hot dry spot between the desert and the coast. For gardening IâÂÂm probably going to go down the container path. Our garage is in the back so a lot of ground is taken over by concrete. The rest of the yard was already planned and planted when we moved in and the open grass area is needed for the dogs. I havenâÂÂt figured out what to do with the lawn out front. IâÂÂm having troubles with the âÂÂwell conceivedâ part. In the meantime I keep the watering to a minimum and alternate between grass cycling and harvesting grass clippings for feedstock in the digesting bins I maintain for our yard clippings and kitchen scraps. to sense .....See MoreLeaf Cutting Propagation-What do I do now?
Comments (6)PG, I actually want to put all the pups together (six total) at some point, but it's hard to get them in one pot together without having them super spaced out with the "Momma" leaves still attached (3 "Momma" leaves). That being said, each "Momma" leaf has 2 pups attached. I was just wondering if the "Momma" leaves would die off eventually so I could put all the pups together or if I'd have to pop each of them off from the "Momma" leaves in order to do so. That was my original question. They each have a good root system going so I think in the Spring I'll pop them off if the "Momma" leaves don't die by then. Planto...See Morewaterspouts in asexually propagated ornamentals
Comments (1)I think water sprouts often are a fast way for the tree to increase the foliage. And eventually the need for fast growth stops, and the tree proceed in a more normal pace....See MoreWhat to do with taproot when you transplant a tree?
Comments (54)People are also talking about trimming the top growth to compensate for the reduced roots. I have an apricot out the front, planted in Winter, and I never cut back the young branches as advised. I had been planning to have a huge enormous tree with a lot of fruit, to see what would happen. (Was also, at the time, tossing up whether to prune it in such a way that he would be a very very small tree.) (I have trouble with decisions.) Anyhow, he has his tall slender branches intact, and in leaf, and is finding it a bit of a slog. His roots were fairly appalling in my opinion but I was comparing them, unfairly, to the sort of root systems that I had been accustomed to seeing. (Of non-fruit trees, I might add. Although, some of them would have been crabapples and flowering plums. Do they have a better root system than a tree grown for its fruit as a general rule? We never grew fruit trees.) So, all this to say that I think I agree with the trimming of the top of a tree at planting time, if it was bare-rooted, and definitely if it is a fruit tree....See Morebrandon7 TN_zone7
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