three years ago eating an apple a seed with sprout on it decided to plant its now five ft can i shift and when

Answer 1

Move it in late autumn or very early spring. Make sure it is not sprouting new leaves or anything. Keep as much of the root structure intact as you can. Water and feed it when its in its new home and starting to regrow.

Answer 2

The biggest problem in transplanting trees is to get enough of the roots to allow it to thrive wherever you want to replant it.

Before the tree breaks dormancy next spring, dig a narrow deep trench around half of the tree, and cut all the roots at a distance of about 24 to 30 inches from the trunk. Refill the trench. During the spring and summer growing season, the tree will develop new feeder roots close in to the trunk. The roots you did not cut will sustain the tree while the new feeder roots are developing.

During the next spring, dig the trench around the remaining half of the tree, so the second side can develop feeder roots close to the trunk.

This makes the ball of dirt that you have to dig much smaller, and protects the tree by keeping its ability to absorb water and nutrients from the soil.

In the second fall, after the tree is dormant, dig a hole where you want to plant the tree. dig it about four feet in diameter, and about that deep.
Put some of the soil back into the hole, making a mound in the center of the hole maybe about twelve to sixteen inches high. The height of the mound is controlled by the size of the tree's root depth after you dig it up; you want to put the tree back into the ground with the trunk in the same position relative to the level of the ground it was in.

Now, go dig up your apple tree. Dig the hole where you dug the trenches, and about three feet deep. Pry the tree up, and work some of the soil away, so it won't be too heavy to lift. you need to straighten and spread the roots over the mound in the new hole, so the tree will have the widest base possible to keep it upright in hgh winds, and so the feeder roots will grow outward to preclude growning into a tangle, and killing the tree later on. After you have spread the roots down over the mound and into the hole, shovel in some dirt, and water it a lot. Wait until the water soaks down into the ground, and put some more dirt and water in. Watering the layers of the dirt helps to settle the dirt all around the feeder roots, so the roots don't dry out and die, and also gives the roots and an immediate start on repairing the damage caused by the transplanting.

The last thing is to trim the branches so that the roots ability to absorb nutrients is in balance with the leaves it has to feed. It's a good idea to cut off whole limbs that might grow into another limb later on, and to balance the tree by pruning to equal up the side growth.

Of course, you can call up a nursery, and they can come with equipment that will dig up the tree in a few minutes and replant it just as quick. When you take up and replant a tree like that, tho, you have to be really careful to keep it watered and fertilized until its root system regenerates. if your climate is dry like mine, this constant watering is more work than digging and replanting.

So, it takes two springs to trench around the tree, and the second late fall to transplant, if you want to keep the tree healthy. Some foresters say never to fertilize a tree when you transplant it, because a tree needs to acclimate to its new location without being spoiled with nutrients too easy to get to. It needs to grow a good sized root system, and if the only fertile ground is within a few inches of the trunk, that's where it will concentrate the feeder roots.

Answer 3

You can plant it any time if you can get it out of the can without damaging the root system, if you cant remove it from the can, get a can opener cut the bottom out of the can and plant it and you will have no problems. make sure to keep it watered well for the first while.

Answer 4

dont move it for 7 years you will also need a male/crab tree to fertile it