Fruit tree blown flat

[rgr33]

I would absolutely love to be able to grow papayas here, but it just isn’t happening outside of a really good greenhouse set up.

Neighbor just down the road is planting olive trees right now though, never thought that was possible in this area.

 

[Alien]

Lots of large olive orchards around my area. It used to be a real fruit bowl here but they used all the water up and pushed the trees and now do veges, potatoes and lucerne. Nearly all the fruit stalls closed down.

 

[ponytug]

I have had that happen twice, both times I ended up cutting them down. I staked one up like you describe for a year or two, got tired of mowing around it, took the supports down and it blew over again. After the third time I gave up. I would say you can save it but plan on leaving the supports up permanently. I used anchor rods, the kind you screw into the ground and larger ratchet straps.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I think I can leave supports in place long term. Regardless, I appreciate the cautionary experience, and the details of what you did. I had mentally assumed that it would take many years, like a decade plus, to put down enough new roots before it might be strong enough not to have them.

Perhaps being preemptive with extra bone meal and phosphorus on the "broken" side might help?

All the best,

Peter

 

[dodge man]

I’d say a decade might get it done, I didn’t give it any where that long. One was a Linden tree that was expensive and the other was a pear tree.