How to Water Pine Trees After Transplanting? Master the Method to Ensure Survival
Everyone knows that transplanting pine trees is not easy to keep alive, and there are too many factors involved. Some people say that if you want a pine tree to survive transplanting, you should move it with its soil ball; others say that it is the variety of the pine tree that is the problem and that it simply cannot be transplanted. The editor checked a lot of information and also asked some experienced transplanting experts, and finally found the method for keeping pine trees alive after transplanting. If you happen to be interested too, then come and take a look!
The Method for Keeping Pine Trees Alive After Transplanting
1. Choosing the planting time
For transplanting pine trees, the most important thing is to correctly grasp the season for digging up the root ball and planting. Because the most active growth (rooting) period of pine trees is from February to April, transplanting at this time is the most suitable. Next is the matter of season; as the saying goes, "cold for pines, hot for cypresses," so pine trees should be planted when it is cold. Generally, late autumn works better than early spring, and early spring is better than late spring and early summer.
2. Choosing the soil
Because pine trees prefer acidic soil and fear waterlogging, when transplanting pine trees we should preferably choose a slightly acidic soil with good aeration and water permeability. If the soil contains too much alkali, it may cause death. Of course, we should also retain as much of the original soil around the roots and as many fine roots as possible. In this way, for the pine tree, the difference in its rhizosphere environment will be relatively much smaller.
3. Choosing the sapling
For transplanting pine trees, small saplings are preferable; the smaller they are, the higher the survival rate. However, their landscape effect is relatively poor. For larger pine trees, if they are robust pine trees from a nursery, the cost is relatively high. Because pine trees on the mountain have grown for a longer time and have a better tree shape, and compared with pine trees of the same specification from a nursery, the cost is relatively low. So many people choose mountain saplings when transplanting pine trees.
How to Water Pine Trees After Transplanting
1. Watering should be moderate. The 1st and 2nd waterings should be thorough, and afterward it should be controlled. Do not water unless it is especially dry. Deaths of pine trees caused by watering often occur, especially for those planted on lawns. To avoid too much water, you can plant them shallowly at the time of planting, setting the soil ball 1/3 into the ground, then mounding soil around it, so that when there is a lot of water sprayed, it can drain outward toward lower ground.
2. Keeping soil moisture content between 7% and 14% is most favorable for pine tree growth. Beyond this limit, reaching a soil moisture content of 16%, after a slightly longer time (more than 10 days) it will cause the pine tree to die. The reason is that root respiration is blocked, and it dies from oxygen deprivation and suffocation.
Reasons Why Pine Tree Transplanting Is Unsuccessful
1. When digging up the tree, too many roots are cut, and the preserved fine roots and absorbing roots are insufficient. The natural conditions of planting also change, and the roots cannot absorb enough water and nutrients to meet the needs of the branches and leaves.
2. The plant has already grown on the mountain for more than 20 years and has adapted to the mountain's temperature, humidity, soil nutrient conditions, and environment without serious pollution; after being moved down the mountain, everything changes, and in addition the root system is not good, and the soil conditions are also different.
3. Management after planting, such as untimely watering, insufficient watering, or excessive watering, and digging that damages the roots without pruning the tree body, resulting in an imbalance of a large crown and small roots.
How to Dig Up Pine Trees on the Mountain
1. If you are preparing to dig up a pine tree on the mountain, first of all still look at the quality of the pine tree. Generally speaking, the quality of pine trees is also very particular. If that is not what you are after, then you can just dig it up directly.
2. If you need a relatively well-grown pine tree, then it is easiest to dig on some hillsides, and you can also choose to use some pine cones to cultivate small pine seedlings.
3. When digging up a pine tree, what we choose is to first decide the position where the pine tree needs to fall, and then dig. If it is a relatively large pine tree, then beforehand you also need to cut off unnecessary branches.
4. Because after a pine tree is dug up, there will still be a relatively long period when it is in a gap period, and it is very difficult for nutrition to keep up. It is very important for us to handle this kind of problem.
5. Furthermore, when digging, first fix the rope firmly to the trunk. If you need to dig it up relatively well, you need to control the direction in which the pine tree falls.
6. When digging, we cannot start digging straight down along beneath the pine tree's roots. Instead, we need to choose to start digging about one sq m around the pine tree, dig a pit, and then take it out directly.
7. After we dig the pine tree out, it is best to wrap the root area of the pine tree with something, and remember to sprinkle on some nutrient solution, such as some sugar water, to help the pine tree sustain itself.
The above is the relevant knowledge about keeping pine trees alive after transplanting. Although it can solve the problem of keeping pine trees alive after transplanting, watering and survival after transplanting are also very important. If the follow-up work is not done well, then all the previous effort will be wasted. Therefore, this is not only a risky migration for the pine tree, but also a journey of exploration by humans into the secrets of nature.