Nursery issue/Circling Roots

Drip · Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 58 Location: Plano,TEXAS

Can everything be removed now or should it be gradual? I'm most concerned about the thick circling roots on the red oak.

FYI: the grower said that girdling roots occur all the time in containerized trees and will not help out. Pretty lazy view in my opinion.

e Craig · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:49 pm Post subject:

If not lazy, at least uninformed. I am glad to see that there are more growers/nurseries such as Athens Tree Farm <http://athenstreefarm.com/> that are working to solve this problem.

Your questioning the extent of pruning is understandable. But you still have a laot of roors that must be "unveiled". Based on my own experience, I agree with DD's post above. However, as you proceed, you may possibly feel that you would rather wait to prune some later, if they are not a current problm, even though digging again would be a lot of additional work.

Have you seen the other topics, such as <sticky> "Tree Flares", "Circling Roots...", "First root flare excavation...", etc.?

Take care.
Craig

Dirt Doctor · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Posts: 550 Location: Dallas,Tx

If the trees were mine I would take the problem roots off now. The grower that allowed the problem roots should be responsible. It's a pretty simple case - unfortunately, it is a very common case. The only grower I know currently addressing this root problem properly is Select Trees in Athens Georgia - and they still aren't organic. Hope that changes soon.

Drip · Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 58 Location: Plano,TEXAS

Ready for the update????

Well, I talked with the nursery, he said he'd pay for $50 of the arborist fees. Nice gesture, but I wasn't overly impressed considering the amount I paid for the trees.

Then the rains came. The storm at the end of March wiped 3 of my trees down a creek in my backyard. I found the Bur Oak nearly a mile down the creek and replanted it. The storm a few weeks ago washed it away again. Found it again and replanted it.

It pretty much resembles Charlie Brown's Christmas Tree, but its starting to get some new growth. I've staked it for now, so we'll see what happens.

I still haven't had the arborist out yet, but there's no more Red Oak to trim up....