{"id":761,"date":"2014-10-25T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=761"},"modified":"2014-10-17T11:12:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T15:12:02","slug":"rebuilding-a-storm-damaged-young-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2014\/10\/25\/rebuilding-a-storm-damaged-young-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding A Storm Damaged Young Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An\u00a0enormous 60 foot\u00a0white pine toppled over several smaller trees. The aftermath was a\u00a0severely damaged \u00a03- year old sweetbay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana<\/em>). Replacing the \u00a03 1\/2 inch diameter\u00a0tree would have cost the homeowner over\u00a0$300. My recommendation to the homeowner\u00a0was to\u00a0cut\u00a0back the\u00a0magnolia\u00a0trunk to approximately\u00a012 inches from the ground in late winter or\u00a06 inches above the graft union. While not much remained above ground, the grafted tree still retained 100% of its root system. Nearly 4 years later and\u00a0after considerable timely pruning,\u00a0the tree has completely regrown.<\/p>\n

A few tree facts: <\/strong>Inside the trunk wood are\u00a0several latent (adventitious) buds. Survival is what the tree is trying to do.\u00a0\u00a0Several multiple shoots\u00a0pushed out\u00a0in the\u00a0spring from above and below ground. All growth below the graft union is from its seedling rootsystem and\u00a0must be promptly removed, as to not\u00a0compete\u00a0with the preferred cultivar.<\/p>\n

To create a new tree, prune off short or weak shoot growth, favoring the tallest, thickest,\u00a0and straightest 1, 2 or 3 new shoots\u00a0by mid-June (year one). You are deciding whether\u00a0your new tree will be single or multi-trunk. All\u00a0energy (growth)\u00a0will be\u00a0pushed into the selected shoots. No staking should be needed. Your “new tree” should be 3-4 feet by mid-September.<\/p>\n

In early spring feed the stubbed tree\u00a0with 10-10-10 or equivalent fertilizer; repeat that practice\u00a0over the first 5 years. Mulch around the tree base, but\u00a0do not\u00a0pile mulch against the trunk. Over the next 2-3 years\u00a0continue to\u00a0prune off new shoots\u00a0and root suckers which\u00a0may\u00a0form\u00a0around the trunk base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                An\u00a0enormous 60 foot\u00a0white pine toppled over several smaller trees. The aftermath was a\u00a0severely damaged \u00a03- year old sweetbay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana). Replacing the \u00a03 1\/2 inch diameter\u00a0tree would have cost the homeowner over\u00a0$300. My recommendation to the homeowner\u00a0was to\u00a0cut\u00a0back the\u00a0magnolia\u00a0trunk to approximately\u00a012 inches from the ground in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[800,665,853,623,1103,866,627,843,601,630,823,706,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6878,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/6878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}