Due to some very high winds yesterday (>50 mph) our young oak tree snapped off about 2 feet off the ground. It was about 10 feet tall before it snapped off. The trunk that is left looks healthy and is about 3 inches in diameter but all the branches were on the part that snapped off. Will this tree "come back" and keep growing? We like the location and hate to give up because it was a very nice tree and fairly expensive. Will it continue to grow and eventually leaf out again?
2007-06-07 02:11:08 · 4 answers · asked by TJ 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
It will start growing again, but it will have multiple branches, eventually trunks, as a result. It will end up looking like a crape myrtle or something. If you don't mind that look, leave it, but it will never actually look like a nice big oak tree.
I'm with the first guy, I'd dig it up and replace it.
2007-06-07 02:21:55 · answer #1 · answered by thegubmint 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can be okay for you to have it in a pot, in spite of everything, it's only 5 inches tall correct now, it's going to just develop slightly slower than the ones in nature. If you want to maintain it in a pot be definite to eventually graduate it to a higher pot and fertilize it probably as soon as every week. You have to understand that okay are gradual growing trees. If you already know the spot the place you wish to have to develop it within the yard it is by and large massive enough now to be planted there. If you do not know yet, keep it in pots longer until that spot appears. As you'll see at Nursery's they promote timber which have been growing in pots for a long time.
2016-08-11 15:37:28 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have to agree with the other answers but do you want a tree with co-dominate stems that will always be weak. As large and heavy as Oaks are I wouldn't recommend tiring to save this tree. I would start over and I would reinvest in a replacement oak of equal size. Also did you report this to you home owners insurance as most landscape trees are included in the policy? Good luck and think green.
2007-06-07 13:59:39 · answer #3 · answered by JW Tree 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, but it won't look very nice because it won't come out of the top. I would say you would be happier to bite the bullet and yank that sucker and plant anew in the same spot.
2007-06-07 02:16:27 · answer #4 · answered by ButwhatdoIno? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋