What is the difference between Nigra and Green Giant Arborvitae?
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Comments (4)I think many conifers grow very slowly. Pine trees are the exception. They grow very fast. You may consider those, but they are wayyyyyy more than 20ft. Another fast growing conifer is the Witchita Blue Juniper. It will get 4-8 ft wide and 15-20 ft tall. If you plant them, make sure to plant 4 feet next to each other. It can be used as a screen or a windbreak and will need no pruning. It also has appealing color. Goodluck with what ever you choose....See MoreFeeding Arborvitae Nigras in Fall? Yes/No and What to use?
Comments (3)Fall fertilizing is tricky and is likely best avoided unless there is some sign of deficiency. Definitely do not use a high nitrogen product. I use a cold processed seaweed concentrate for fall 'corrections' (NPK 0.2-0-0.3). Fall is for the roots, making it a great time incorporate mycorrhizal fungi and beneficial bacteria! It is the most important thing that one can do for the ultimate success of any tree (or plant) in the ground. Look for products made by a company called Down To Earth, they make several root enhancement products, containing blends of endo and ecto mycorrhizae and beneficial bacteria. Get one with a high species count (you never know which species will actually make an association will your specific plant). They make granular or liquid applied. Do some googling on it. I have done the side by side comparisons, its worth it. I inoculate every plant i put in the ground (which is 1000's a year), I also use when up potting trees (to start the association early)...See MoreGreen Giant arborvitaes shaping
Comments (7)Agreed. If arbs....any arbs...are happy in their surroundings and in sufficient light. they develop very dense structure on their own. While arbs are one of the plant types suitable for a shearing treatment, this is a lot of work and if you ever decide it's just too much and quit the procedure, you will have very ungainly trees-extremely dense up to the point where you quit the shearing, and quite a bit rangier and thinner beyond. Plus, new, rangier growth will always be erupting from the lower sheared part, and this will not look pleasing. So, if at all possible, go for their normal natural growth form. They screen very well just as is. +oM...See MorePlanting GREEN GIANT ARBORVITAE near old maple roots / spacing
Comments (14)I am removing these roots. Almost every resource says to just make sure to plant a few feet away, and many testimonies say their new tree is doing fine years later, but even 8ft away I am hitting like 3x3 fresh lumber I can make furniture with lol. Ultimately I think this is a unique scenario because I checked youtube vids like below and although some of those trunks are much smaller than the Silver Maple, the ratio of roots-to-trunk size seems way different as if this Silver Maple made clusters of much thicker and longer roots for its size - I think it's because the sandy/clay grading soil when they built the development makes things root shallow in this location. This is how a lot of developments are built, they use cheap sandy/clay stuff for the main grading and then only about 18" of good soil on top for the grass and trees, and also I've heard this whole side of town was basically a swap or something once upon a time, google maps even shows a blue line (river) along this fence line but there's never been a river, maybe an underground spring or something hence the map's river line starts and ends with no body of water and I've replaced fence posts here when it hasn't rained and basically hit an underground river (the wood underground was solid because no oxygen is why fence posts usually rot at the base only). I removed the stumps and roots of a row of blue point junipers that were chopped down like 7 years prior and they were still solid. If the roots look like the below vids, then yes go ahead and plant close and don't even worry about that little amount of roots in fact yes it'll just add organic matter I'd prefer to leave some roots if it's sandy/clay which is what I'm doing adding small roots back into the mix and mixing the sandy sub soil with the dark rich compost topsoil. Green giants are well-rooted and unlikley to tip over from windthrow, and they might root deeper into the sandy/clay stuff just below the old maple roots, but bottom line is there's too much big roots in the way that I know it'll be better without them, I can't even dig a 1ft wide hole for a new tree without hitting something decent. Some trees cost too much to risk it IMHO at least get some of the old roots out, setting up irrigation, transporting the trees, fertilizing etc better to not risk it if the conditions and old roots are like this. Another thing is if a previous tree/roots had disease, it could enter the new tree, but as long as there's not a ton of old root mass, then maybe it's not a big deal and the soil microbes will correct it, but just wanted to note that about planting near an old stump. And well, you can't just make quick work of roots with a chainsaw because it'll dull in 5 seconds and you'll spend more time sharpening than cutting (although I might sacrifice a chain for this and test my dremel chainsaw bits for once because usually I just hand file), but it's not too too bad removing roots. It rained hard and turned my project into a pool that I bucket'd mostly out and then filled the finished areas back with soil and it was like working on quicksand but it's getting there and the farther away from the stump the easier it becomes. Sawsall pruning blades dull really fast too and I resharpen them on a bench grinder but it's still takes a while. I've been picking at them with an axe, splitting wedges etc, rain-soaked compost topsoil makes it a lot heavier and everything slippery, been going at it with a jack hammer with a sharpened chisel bit does decently. This Silver Maple stump was like 3ft wide at the base. I just removed a different maple's stump and roots from the sidewalk grass strip area to plant new sweetbay magnolia and that was about a 1ft maple stump but the ratio of those roots to the large silver maple doesn't correlate, I was able to rather easily remove the whole stump and what seems like the only main roots it put out due to being confined between the sidewalk and street compared to the large Silver Maple really put tons of big roots out. sorry so long, Another things though is Green Giants are an extremely QUICK growing tree so I would still prefer not to have even medium sized roots near them. Tree services should offer the option to grind the roots too if they're this big. The Silver maple roots I'm removing are much bigger for the trunk-to-roots ratio than these trees it seems likely because of the site conditions https://youtu.be/N3RUifC7Uo8?t=310 https://youtu.be/Fjg7ieBY7Lk?t=434 https://youtu.be/bRTIwWUg4fc?t=152 https://youtu.be/vM24klVyxFk?t=477...See Moreken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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