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The organization I received trees from says *"We do not generally recommend staking trees unless necessary. Too often, staking materials serve no necessary function and are left on too long, resulting in a girdled trunk and a dead tree."* What do you do for new trees?
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The organization I received trees from says ”We do not generally recommend staking trees unless necessary. Too often, staking materials serve no necessary function and are left on too long, resulting in a girdled trunk and a dead tree.” What do you do for new trees?


The organization I received trees from says *”We do not generally recommend staking trees unless necessary. Too often, staking materials serve no necessary function and are left on too long, resulting in a girdled trunk and a dead tree.”* What do you do for new trees?

by MileHigh_FlyGuy

4 Comments

  1. der_innkeeper

    Pay attention.

    How long is necessary and recommended? Sounds like they deal with people just staking their trees and ignoring any future maintenance, and then call them in 3 years and wonder why the tree is dead.

  2. charlesbronson05

    I don’t recommend anyone does anything improperly. Staking can be done correctly and can be helpful.

  3. trouthat

    We get pretty strong north/south winds and I had a tall bendy black gum I planted in 2021 and I “staked” it by loosely attaching rope just to limit the maximum amount of sway because some sway is helpful to strengthen the tree as it grows considering it’s gonna be windy where it’s planted but not enough to to have it blow over before it gets situated 

  4. Ambitious-Poem9191

    We install lots of trees. Commercial landscape plans will always ask for staking. But, I never do on residential which we mostly do. If a certain tree is a really top heavy variety, then yes. Otherwise our trees are always fine without. Occasionally they get knocked over in a crazy wind storm in exposed areas, rarely. So maybe 1 out of 20 trees ends up getting a callback and a stake added.

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