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If you are like ME (with livestock, for those who don't know), you probably have several leaky water buckets (Again, for those who don't know we use 5 gallon painters buckets to carry water for livestock) not yet thrown away.
Take a Sharpie, write "leaky" on it, fill it with water and put the bottom on top of the tree roots, wherever you figure they are. VERY good drip irrigation!
Use those mosquito donuts to keep down their population.
You could also use the tree's plastic pot. Line it with a garbage bag and use scissors to stab 1/2 a dozen holes, then fill with water. Tie it to a stake away from the tree.
Keep checking them.
I am currently using a 100 gallon Rubbermaid water tank for drip irrigation on my older cherry tree. We have had droughts for several years now. Right NOW, our drought has lasted a month. Last year and 2020 we went to drought middle of the summer after a VERY WET Spring.
Last year this tree lost almost all of it's leaves. Watering this way with the draining hole slightly open saved it, and it grew back leaves, AND, surPrisingly, it jumped a season and grew flowers. Go figure!
I would ALWAYS assume your tree needs MUCH more water than you think. UNLESS it is sitting is a low spot and you have a rainy season, it really needs a lot of water to establish roots and to grow limbs.]
Hope this helps! Good luck!!
Take a Sharpie, write "leaky" on it, fill it with water and put the bottom on top of the tree roots, wherever you figure they are. VERY good drip irrigation!
Use those mosquito donuts to keep down their population.
You could also use the tree's plastic pot. Line it with a garbage bag and use scissors to stab 1/2 a dozen holes, then fill with water. Tie it to a stake away from the tree.
Keep checking them.
I am currently using a 100 gallon Rubbermaid water tank for drip irrigation on my older cherry tree. We have had droughts for several years now. Right NOW, our drought has lasted a month. Last year and 2020 we went to drought middle of the summer after a VERY WET Spring.
Last year this tree lost almost all of it's leaves. Watering this way with the draining hole slightly open saved it, and it grew back leaves, AND, surPrisingly, it jumped a season and grew flowers. Go figure!
I would ALWAYS assume your tree needs MUCH more water than you think. UNLESS it is sitting is a low spot and you have a rainy season, it really needs a lot of water to establish roots and to grow limbs.]
Hope this helps! Good luck!!
