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What I said in my original post is sound well tested horticulture advise that is also coming from years of personal experience, professional experience, and education. Still you raise a good point about water and oxygen which complements why you should not water a tree in the ground every day if not needed.ģ) It does not rain here in N. I specifically was talking about trees in the ground as well as in nursery containers. Seems you water what you have every 2-3 days, that’s not every day.Ģ) This thread is about trees planted in the ground. Perhaps where you live you do need to water daily, though the operative word there is need. Straying from this is looking for trouble. Plants should be watered only when they need water. Stating that you should water a Japanese maple every day is wrong and the embodiment of blanket. The blanket statement was what I was addressing in the previous post by “If you planted recently I would make sure to water everyday.” If you reread what I wrote along with my example, it is that location is pivotal. If it is hot I can see the leaves at the tip of the boxwood starting to wilt.Ĭlick to expand.You wrote three paragraphs there, I’ll respond to them individually.ġ) This is not a blanket statement, it is an example of conditions where I live and proper watering here. I recently planted a blue point juniper and 4 boxwoods in my front yard and it took them over 6 months of watering every 2-3 days to get established where one watering when it's not hot will be enough for them. Let me do that in my location and I will have a dead tree within a few days. without taking into account location your advise is null. I don't see the Japanese go out and pull the trees out of the ground to protect them from overwatering.
They are used to continuous rain, especially during the monsoon season. As they will pull humidity from the entire area, but once again, if in an arid location you will need to water them.Īlso, this trees (JM) come from an area that is located between temperate and sub-tropical climates.
I do agree to some extent for trees in the ground. I understand if you use organics on your soil. Walter Paul has explained this for years. The excess water will just run out of the pot. Clearly the balance of oxygen and water has to be attained, but trees in inorganic soil "can't" be overwatered. I also don't understand the "don't water every day" comment. If it is hot I can see the leaves at the tip of the boxwood starting to wilt. These guys know their stuff, they have to, it is the foundation of everything they do.Ĭlick to expand.This is such a blanket statement. Here’s a video that goes pretty in depth into this topic. This has been the case with a tree planted in my front yard two months ago that I’ve only watered twice so far and it is thriving. This requires putting your hands in the dirt, being aware of rainfall, and monitoring the trees appearance regularly -especially in the first year of planting.įor example, I could plant a JM today and never water it for the rest of the year if we continue to get consistent rain a couple of times a week. Location and weather conditions are pivotal to when a tree should be watered, but virtually no tree or shrub in the ground or in a pot needs to be watered every day, they should only be watered when the tree needs water. Your JM needs to dry out some allowing air to its roots and to encourage roots to grow and search for water. It gets pretty blazing here in summer, but still if I watered the Japanese maples at work every day we would have no Japanese maples -and these are in nursery pots, not in the ground. Doing so can inhibit root growth as well as lead to harm of your tree, & stressed plants are vulnerable to pathogens and infestation. I strongly disagree with watering a JM every day in the ground or even in a nursery container.
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