Next stand of pine or etc.

Re: Next stand of pine or etc.

Thomas T Dunlap

It might work on decayed stumps. You're likely to cause encircling roots just like leaving seedlings in too small a pot for too long.

Better plan would be to plant trees around the old stump. This puts the roots directly into soil and the old stump might become sort of a compost pile giving up the nutrients it took from the soil while it grew.

Re: Next stand of pine or etc.

Buckaroo

My idea is better than yours. Each of old roots(not that old has pith in the center) Seems like the new roots would located a particular root and suck up/follow the pith, getting nutrients, while going deeper into the ground & would soon reach/get moisture the old root was feeding on.

ANYWHO , plum pleased you read and gave your opinion.

Try it

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

Try it and report back in 3 years with pictures of the reseeding. In the mean time file a patent for if it works you will be rich from royalties from timber companies that never thought of this idea. And pass it on to the species that reseed on stumps in wet locations that only send their roots outside the stump to reach earth.

No pith in tree roots *LINK*

Thomas T Dunlap

Dr. Shigo taught us years ago to be careful with our language. Functionally there's no pith in dicots. there is a center...sort of...in roots, but not like in the stem.

Roots are so interesting. The functions of root parts are completely different that above ground parts. Too often we're taught that the stem/branches and roots are a monoclast. Can't be further from the truth.


There's no pith in tree roots

communication *LINK*

Thomas T Dunlap

Once the tree dies there is no more communication for other, live trees, to tap into.

Follow the link and learn about these fascinating organisms. Without mychorrhiza plants will decline and die.


Mycorrhiza...the communicators

Re: No pith in tree roots

Buckaroo

Well Tom,Bill, looks Like We Been Put Out To Pasture!!!!!!!

ANYBODY ELSE WANT TO JUMP ON THIS WAGON LEAVING town!!!!!

Re: monoclast?

William Duffield

You have used a term (specialist biological structural jargon?) that neither my dictionary nor Google recognizes. Even searching for the suffix "-clast" only provides geological definitions. What's up with "monoclast"?

Re: No pith in tree roots

Larry Barrett

Tom

I am not a botanist and don't understand much of what your link discusses, but I read it with interest and have a question.

You say that there is no pith in dicots, and you also say no pith in tree roots. So I can infer that a tree root is a dicot.

In the link, there is a diagram of both a dicot root and a monocot root, and the dicot root diagram seems to be consistent with what you said.

The monocot root diagram shows a pith, but the text above it says "There is no pith region in monocots." So (my question) is this statement in error?

Re: monoclast? wrong term

Thomas T Dunlap

Ooops...my mind was fuzzy

Not the term I meant...thanks for catching it

The wood in the trunk is different in roots and upper. Cambium is different...decay compartmentalizing is different. Pith or not.

I've seen pictures that Shigo took with a scanning electron microscope that shows where the cells are differentiating. amazing

Re: No pith in tree roots

Thomas T Dunlap

I think the writing goes from stem to root explanations. I found that confusing too.

Gotta see this! Square roots *LINK*

Thomas T Dunlap

This is what is likely to happen to the roots if a seedling is planted in a drilled hole in a stump


Square roots