HI ,THERE TUBBY,, I’VE BEEN AN ORCHARDIST [APPLES] AL;L MY LIFE, 88 TEARS.
i’VE PROBABLY PLANTED 10 THOUSAND TREES, AND AS FAR AS I CAN RECALL
EVERY ONE OF THEM LIVED
I teach Arboriculture and I have a full 55-minute lecture on planting trees, so when I saw your topic for today I was very interested to see what you had to say. You did a great job! I had never heard of that simple trick for raising a tree if you dug too deep a hole. Can you also use the same technique to lower it a bit if you didn’t dig it deep enough? You also covered the point that it is important to remove ALL the twine around the trunk. As I said, you did a very good job.
There are a couple more things that you didn’t cover that I consider very important.
1. Dig the hole wide not deep. You want the hole to be at least twice the diameter of the root ball, and in heavier clay or silt soils you want at least 3 x the root ball.
2. For every tree that gets planted too shallow, there are 10 that get planted too deep! How deep is too deep? You have t go by the roots not the root ball. If you did the digging yourself you know where the top of the root system was so you know how deep a hole you need, BUT if it is a commercial B&B tree, the top lateral root may have been buried as much as 6 inches below the top of the root ball. When you get it right, you should be able to see the top of the first lateral root at grade level.
3. Get that burlap off of the tree! If at all possible, cut all the strings, roll the burlap down one side of the hole, rock the tree to the other side, shove the burlap under the rootball, rock the tree the other way, and slide it out of the hole. If it is a huge tree or it is in a wire basket, cut as much of the burlap or wire basket (Don’t even think of using your hand pruners on the wire, go get the biggest wire cutters you can find.) Then stomp whatever you can’t cut off into the bottom of the hole.
I just reread my comment. It is a bit long. Maybe you should post it as a “Guest Editorial”!
Thank you for the input! We used to pull really large trees out of the hole by tipping, back filling, tipping back the other way and eventually raising the tree high enough that we could slide it on to a skid plate that couldn’t reach into the hole.
Guest editorial? Sure, we’d love to have some guest editorial material. Just Email Duston, [email protected]
I want to say .. the Charlie Brown Christmas tree. 🙂 .. but I’ll say a Bonsai and then ask if the Bonsai is the same as a Japanese Maple? This is toooo hard for me! 🙂
Thank u for explaining clay soil. I hate it but we live in an area where that’s all there is. Very frustrating. Btw I would like to know how u composte with food waste without it smelling badly.
Thank you Mike!!
Hey Mike:
I just finished my Master Gardening course with WSU. The more recent info on tree planting is to remove that burlap. They have found that it does not decompose quickly and it does inhibit root growth. I have discovered as you mentioned many hidden ties I would never have discovered without fully removing all the burlap. The trees I have done this with are all thriving.
Hey Mike & Dustin, thanks again for a good instructional video and your devotion to the gardening community to educate us. I have a third acre back behind my house, beside a creek I want to plant some fruit trees. This video helped. Jeff
The tree being planted appears to be a Japanese Maple, I have seen these whick are usually of the laceleaf type and grow lower to the ground than a regular Japanese Maple, so it might be a dwarf variety.
Lots of guesses here, but I will stick with Japanese Weeping Maple, Red laceleaf variety. Without leaves or a closeup of the tree in leaf, it would be hard to guess. However, I know how fond of the Japanese Maples you are, so it must be some kind of that!
Mike I want to thank you for all you do. I have no idea to the type or variety of tree but, it looks nice without foliage. So, I would guess a broom-ed top Red Bud .
Thanks for the great tips i learn each time you do this.
HI MIKE ! JIM HERE ANOTHER GOOD THING TO KNOW IS IF YOU MOVE A TREE THAT’S 2yrs. OLD TIE A PIECE OR RIBBON AROUND THE TRUNK, MAKING SURE THAT THE KNOT FACES THE SAME DIRECTION IT DID BEFORE THE MOVE. YOU WILL TRICK IT TO THINK THAT IT WAS NEVER MOVED !! IF YOU DONT SURVIVAL IS RISKY…
Good Job! I think it has already been guessed correctly. I planted a Lilac last spring on a slight hill cut. Come the middle of July my plant almost dies. I began to dig it up, the hole was muck. I asked about a field tile and sure enough I was told the excavator had cut a field tile right above my new Lilac. I replanted it very high and it responded with new growth however this spring it hasn’t budded so I am going to try with another plant and I will elevate it even 6″ to get out of the wet soil. To move the location I would have to move 4 other Lilacs so I am going to get really high this time – I was up 4″ after the plan had a very big set back. Anyway thanks. Bruce
(It is definately NOT a variety of Japanese Maple, because the last video blog on “How to Ball & Burlap Dig a Tree” shows the same tree being dug up and Mike said it was to “make room for a Japanese Maple” to be planted in the newly vacated spot!
I have planted many trees “in my youth” and always was amazed at how well they take and florish. I love flowering trees and now that I have a new home anticipate planting some very soon.
Thanks Mike
I’m going to guess the more common variety of a Crimson Queen Japanese Maple. That is probably wrong but at least I’ve eliminated that for everyone elses guesses.
I think it is a Crepe myrtle
Weeping eastern redbud
RISING SUN REDBUD
Japanese Maple tree
Virdis Japanese Maple, another word for PRETTY!!!
Louisa Weeping Crabapple (Malus ‘Louisa’)
Yes, but this was answered a long time ago.
I think that is a Japanese Maple Tree Mike. Great video.
weeping crabapple is my guess h.i to everyone
………..and then again, because I cheated, it is a Malus Louisa flowering crabapple.
A quick glance at first site I would say that’s a weeping Japanese maple.
I think its a weeping cherry
Without a doubt it is a lavender twist red bud tree. YES!!!!!!!!!!!
The tree appears to be a Japanese Maple.
Japanese Maple
it’s a lace leafet weeping Japanese maple
HI ,THERE TUBBY,, I’VE BEEN AN ORCHARDIST [APPLES] AL;L MY LIFE, 88 TEARS.
i’VE PROBABLY PLANTED 10 THOUSAND TREES, AND AS FAR AS I CAN RECALL
EVERY ONE OF THEM LIVED
I guess being 88 allows you to speak your mind. Thanks for sharing.
flowering cherry.
japanese maple
japenese maple tree
Is it a bloodgood japanese maple?
Lorrie,
not a bloodgood maple.
Is the tree a japanese maple?
Gene,
No, not a Japanese maple.
Mike,
I teach Arboriculture and I have a full 55-minute lecture on planting trees, so when I saw your topic for today I was very interested to see what you had to say. You did a great job! I had never heard of that simple trick for raising a tree if you dug too deep a hole. Can you also use the same technique to lower it a bit if you didn’t dig it deep enough? You also covered the point that it is important to remove ALL the twine around the trunk. As I said, you did a very good job.
There are a couple more things that you didn’t cover that I consider very important.
1. Dig the hole wide not deep. You want the hole to be at least twice the diameter of the root ball, and in heavier clay or silt soils you want at least 3 x the root ball.
2. For every tree that gets planted too shallow, there are 10 that get planted too deep! How deep is too deep? You have t go by the roots not the root ball. If you did the digging yourself you know where the top of the root system was so you know how deep a hole you need, BUT if it is a commercial B&B tree, the top lateral root may have been buried as much as 6 inches below the top of the root ball. When you get it right, you should be able to see the top of the first lateral root at grade level.
3. Get that burlap off of the tree! If at all possible, cut all the strings, roll the burlap down one side of the hole, rock the tree to the other side, shove the burlap under the rootball, rock the tree the other way, and slide it out of the hole. If it is a huge tree or it is in a wire basket, cut as much of the burlap or wire basket (Don’t even think of using your hand pruners on the wire, go get the biggest wire cutters you can find.) Then stomp whatever you can’t cut off into the bottom of the hole.
I just reread my comment. It is a bit long. Maybe you should post it as a “Guest Editorial”!
: – )
Chuck
Chuck,
Thank you for the input! We used to pull really large trees out of the hole by tipping, back filling, tipping back the other way and eventually raising the tree high enough that we could slide it on to a skid plate that couldn’t reach into the hole.
Guest editorial? Sure, we’d love to have some guest editorial material. Just Email Duston, [email protected]
Inabi shidare
Japanese maple
Lions Head Japanese Maple
Rudy says, Lions Head Japanese Maple
I think that it is a weeping cherry tree. Maybe not though.
I want to say .. the Charlie Brown Christmas tree. 🙂 .. but I’ll say a Bonsai and then ask if the Bonsai is the same as a Japanese Maple? This is toooo hard for me! 🙂
It’s a redbud
I thank a Weeping Crabapple tree.
Flowering curb apple Mal is Louisa
Heartbreaker
I’m thinking Weeping Redbud, best guess!
Jay,
No that’s not it.
Hi Mike, great video. Mike, knowing you and your love for japenese maple, i don’t even have to guess. It has to be japanese maple.
Japanese Maple
I believe it”s a japanese Maple
I’m going to guess: Weeping Cherry, variety Snow Fountain…
My guess is : Acer palmatum Altropurpureum “Ever Red”
Lavender Twist Weeping Redbud
Sharon, no, not Lavender Twist Redbud.
its a money maker; Mikes favourite “japanese maple”
Red blood Japenese Maple
Thank u for explaining clay soil. I hate it but we live in an area where that’s all there is. Very frustrating. Btw I would like to know how u composte with food waste without it smelling badly.
Thank you Mike!!
Japanese Maple.
Weeping Pussy Willow
Hey Mike:
I just finished my Master Gardening course with WSU. The more recent info on tree planting is to remove that burlap. They have found that it does not decompose quickly and it does inhibit root growth. I have discovered as you mentioned many hidden ties I would never have discovered without fully removing all the burlap. The trees I have done this with are all thriving.
Will do not no mike but like to no so will see win you post it good video
Thanks for the good instructional video. My guess is Prunus subhirtella, ‘Pendula’.
Laceleaf Weeping Japanese Red Maple Tree
(the prettiest of the Japenese Red Maple)
CAROLINA WEEPING CRABAPPLE TREE
I believe it is ajapanese maple.
I am going to guess that it is a weeping crab apple.
Mike,
What is it??? Did you ever say??
Connie, the tree is Malus Louisa, it’s a flowering crabapple very similar to Red Jade.
I believe it’s a Weeping Japanese Maple tree
I think it’s a weeping Cheery. I know someone allready said it but…I want to play too.
Dwarf Japanese Red Maple tree.
Prunus mume: Weeping Japanese apricot
I’m going to guess a weeping mulberry.
Hey Mike & Dustin, thanks again for a good instructional video and your devotion to the gardening community to educate us. I have a third acre back behind my house, beside a creek I want to plant some fruit trees. This video helped. Jeff
Weeping cherry
Lace Leaf Japanese Maple is my guess.
Lacey Japanese Maple (red)
laceleaf weeping Japanese maple
Mike,
The tree in your video above looks like a Japanese Red Maple to me.
All the best,
gerry
Hi Mike, Weeping Cherry I think and Thanks for your great video.
this is a wheeping cherry tree
Is it a russian elm?
could be a weeping Japanese leaf maple.
Definitely a red Japanese Maple
Is it a Crepe Myrtle?
Hi Mike,
It looks like a grafted Chinese Blossoming Cherry tree?
R/Bill
Bedford, MA
Looks like a Japanese Maple to me.
Acer palmatum ‘Tamukeyama’
I AGREE WITH BOB FROM ORLANDO
The tree being planted appears to be a Japanese Maple, I have seen these whick are usually of the laceleaf type and grow lower to the ground than a regular Japanese Maple, so it might be a dwarf variety.
Japanese Maple. Mike if we have questions, can we e-mail you, or how do we get a hold of you?
Sandy, I do my best not to do any Email. I just don’t have time. But we have a new forum where you can ask questions at http://japanesemaplelovers.com
Weeping Japanese maple tree
Mike,
Lots of guesses here, but I will stick with Japanese Weeping Maple, Red laceleaf variety. Without leaves or a closeup of the tree in leaf, it would be hard to guess. However, I know how fond of the Japanese Maples you are, so it must be some kind of that!
Jeanne
This is either a grafted dappled willow Or dwarfed Ornimental flowering fancy pink cherry blossom tree.
Possibly Malus ‘Red Jade’?
That would be an Acer palmatum var. dissectum. Congrats to the first person that named it. I’m too late 🙁
Dwarf plum?
Looks like an acer palmatum “Ever red” probably a mature tree.
its a laceleaf weeping japanese maple
Red Lace Leaf Weeping Japanese Maple
How about a acer palmatum dissectum?
This is CAROLINA WEEPING CRABAPPLE TREE, which You were showing in your video “Landscape design tips”. !!!
Salix caprea pendula, Weeping Pussy Willow
Don’t know the name but suggest a tall Vodka Tonic as a reward for your hard work !!
Looks like a Lilac
I do believe japanese maple.
weeping wisteria.
weeping wisteria. rg from ohio
weeping wisteria
Acer Palmatum Dissectum
laceleaf japanese maple (red) beauitful
I’m thinking it is a weeping purple beech.
Ulmus glabra ‘Camperdownii’ or ‘Pendula’
[email protected]
Thanks.
Lavender Twist Weeping Redbud
Mike I want to thank you for all you do. I have no idea to the type or variety of tree but, it looks nice without foliage. So, I would guess a broom-ed top Red Bud .
Thanks for the great tips i learn each time you do this.
My guess is, Red Japanese Maple.
Japanese Maple or Weeping Cherry
Japanese Maple? LOL you’re always promoting how easy it is to grow them! 🙂
Knowing your fondness for japanese maples I would say..
dwarf weeping Tamukeyama japanese maple.
weeping redbud covey
I think it is a weeping flowering plum.
It looks like a japanese weeping cherry
I believe i am late with the guess but I think it is a “laceleaf weeping Japanese maple” Or maybe my 2+2 is not 4. thought I’d try
HI MIKE ! JIM HERE ANOTHER GOOD THING TO KNOW IS IF YOU MOVE A TREE THAT’S 2yrs. OLD TIE A PIECE OR RIBBON AROUND THE TRUNK, MAKING SURE THAT THE KNOT FACES THE SAME DIRECTION IT DID BEFORE THE MOVE. YOU WILL TRICK IT TO THINK THAT IT WAS NEVER MOVED !! IF YOU DONT SURVIVAL IS RISKY…
I’m thinkin a weeping cherry tree?
Hey Mike,
What do you have for info on Hibiscus trees? Can they be propagated?
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Cass Reid
Wisteria Tree
I’m going with the Japanese maple
I think it’s a blue beech
Ed
I love this website and all the videos are so helpful! thanks!
Weeping Cherry and thank u
Japanese maple
Looks like a Weeping Cherry, good video.
Looks like a Weeping Cherry, good video.
I think it is Japanese maple.
Good Job! I think it has already been guessed correctly. I planted a Lilac last spring on a slight hill cut. Come the middle of July my plant almost dies. I began to dig it up, the hole was muck. I asked about a field tile and sure enough I was told the excavator had cut a field tile right above my new Lilac. I replanted it very high and it responded with new growth however this spring it hasn’t budded so I am going to try with another plant and I will elevate it even 6″ to get out of the wet soil. To move the location I would have to move 4 other Lilacs so I am going to get really high this time – I was up 4″ after the plan had a very big set back. Anyway thanks. Bruce
I’ll guess the tree is a Gwinevere Crab Apple.
Thanks for the good tips, Mike!
Cercis canadensis
Echtemeyer crabapple
Is it a Weeping Larch??????
Lavender Twist Weeping Redbud Tree
(It is definately NOT a variety of Japanese Maple, because the last video blog on “How to Ball & Burlap Dig a Tree” shows the same tree being dug up and Mike said it was to “make room for a Japanese Maple” to be planted in the newly vacated spot!
[email protected]
I agree.
Crab apple tree?
Flowering crab apple tree?
dwarf weeping snow fountain cherry tree
It’s the tree you dug up from your front yard in the last video to transplant to your new nursery!!!!!!!
HenryLauder’s walking stick tree
weeping japanese maple
Weeping Cherry
I’m thinking it could be a Weeping Cherry!
weeping redbud
Acer Palmatum Dissectum
japanese maple, it came from your front yard
Lavender Twist Redbud
pruned cherry
The top looks like a weeping charry, but the trunk [is hard to see in this video] does not. Could be a weeping peach? or weeping redbud?
Is it a laceleaf maple?
Is it a tamukeyama maple tree?
Cotoneaster
It is a Japanese Red Maple for sure! How do I know? The thicker trunk, and thinner and flatter branches with a reddish tinge gave it away!
Jason David
7480 Gardengate Place
Dublin, OH 43016
I believe that is an Old English Arse Kickin’ Tree! Just saying.
I think it is a weeping redbud.
Weeping Cherry
I believe it is a Hawthorn.
i think its a blueberry fruit tree, o.k. mike?malvina blackledge sr 81800 hwy 41 bush la 70431
It’s a Japanese Maple Mike.
It Looks Like A weeping Pussy Willow.
The tree you were [p;anting in the video is a Japanese Red Maple.
Carol From Canada
Japanese Maple
I have planted many trees “in my youth” and always was amazed at how well they take and florish. I love flowering trees and now that I have a new home anticipate planting some very soon.
Thanks Mike
Is it a “Caroline” Weeping CrabApple?
[email protected]
weeping japanese maple
Is it a Caroline Weeping Crabapple?
Dale Ellis
105 McGinnis Dr.
Grover, NC 28073
weeping cherry?
This looks like a Weeping Cherry to me. Great video.
Chinese parasol tree Firmiana Simplex
Hard to tell in that stage..but my guess would be ‘Prunus subhirtella’.. some variety of a Weeping Cherry ?
Is it a weeping cherry?
Which would be Cercis Canadensis [Redbud]
I think you’re right, Weeping Redbud
Weeping Redbud, Forest Pansy
the tree is Acer palmatum Dissectum. Janet Gelb
Lavender Twist – Cercis Canadensis ‘Covey’
Weeping Mulberry?
Redbud?
Japanese Maple Tree
Japanese Maple Tree
Cannot really tell but will take a crack at it……..It’s an Acer Palmatum Dissectum Red Dragon High Graft
hi mike is this a caroline weeping crabapple tree
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I’m going to guess the more common variety of a Crimson Queen Japanese Maple. That is probably wrong but at least I’ve eliminated that for everyone elses guesses.
my guess would have been this too :Crimson Queen Japanese Maple
Red Japanes Maple
it id s Goshiki Shidare Lace leaf Weeping
Japanese Maple
I know that it’s a Japanese maple family it is Cremson color in the spring
Lace-leaf weeping Japanese red maple trees (Acer palmatum dissectum)