Jeremy martin wrote:Nice John
Thanks for the insight, somebody also recently told me to plant them in colder spots to compensate for the early warm spell which is whats been happening,
I wonder if you could paint the trees with brown latex paint because white looks terrible.
cheers
Jeremy
Two options are to plant many different varieties that all have different natural blooming times and to plant those different varieties in different micro-climates such as higher/lower elevation, North/South facing slopes, near rocks or ponds - if you do as many of these things as you can, you'll maximize the chance that some of the trees will be in the optimum conditions for them every year no matter what nature throws at you.
On another extreme, I've been known to install those cheap white
incandescent christmas tree
lights on customers' trees if they only have a handful of trees to protect.
Also, painting the trunk brown will do the opposite of the white paint reflecting the sunlight and minimizing warm-up of the tree. We will also mix sharp sand in with the paint which helps deter chewing.
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