‘ Sekkan - sugi ’ is a large , slender , pyramidical to columnar conifer with slimly nodding branches and ruby peeling bark . Yellowish - green , 1/4 - 1/2 inch long leave turn close white in winter . Produces brown female cone shape , each incorporate 3 to 5 seed . In its native home ground , this tree will grow to 150 fundament improbable ; otherwise expect about 60 feet . Often used as a magniloquent screen , down avenues or as a backcloth for other plantings .
Google Plant Images : click here !
Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
If container - grown , lie the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree on its side and remove the container . Loosen the roots around the edges without fail up the stem ball too much . Position tree in center of hole so that the good side faces ahead . You are quick to begin filling in with soil .
If planting a balled and burlaped tree , position it in hole so that the best side present ahead . Untie or remove nail from burlap at top of lump and pull burlap back , so it does not stick out of hollow when soil is replaced . Synthetic burlap should be removed as it will not break down like natural burlap . big trees often arrive in telegram baskets . Plant as you would a b&b plant , but cut as much of the telegram away as possible without actually removing the handbasket . Chances are , you would do more damage to the rootball by remove the basket . but abbreviate away telegram to leave several large openings for beginning .
take both holes with grunge the same elbow room . Never amend with less than half original soil . Recent field show that if your dirt is easy enough , you are better off contribute petty or no soil amendments .
produce a water ringing around the outer boundary of the hole . Not only will this conseve piss , but will organise wet to perimeter roots , encouraging out outgrowth . Once tree is establish , weewee band may be leveled . study show that mulch trees raise faster than those unmulched , so append a 3 " " layer of pinestraw , compost , or pulverized bark over backfilled area . take away any damage arm .
Problems
Prevention and ControlRemove affected plants and their rootage , and discard palisade soil . supersede with plants that are not susceptible , and only use fresh , desex stain mix . Hold back on fertilizing too . Try not to over water flora and make certain that soil is well drain prior to planting . This fungus is not treatable by chemical .
Rhizoctonia Root and Stem Rot symptoms look similar to Pythium Root Rot , but the Rhizoctonia fungus seems to thrive in well drain soils .
Miscellaneous
Although many mass consider that cool temperature are responsible for the colour change , the weather has nothing to do with it at all . As the days maturate shorter and the nights longer , a chemical substance clock inside the trees starts up , releasing a endocrine which restricts the flow of sap to each leaf . As fall progress , the sap flow retard and chlorophyl , the chemical that yield the leave of absence their green color in the spring and summer , disappears . The residual cosh becomes more concentrated as it dries , creating the colour of dip . gloss : EvergreenEvergreenrefers to plant that hold onto their leave or needle for more than one grow season , shedding them over clip . Some plants such as live oak tree are evergreen , but commonly throw away the majority of their quondam leave-taking around the close of January . Glossary : Large TreeA tree is consider large when it is over 30 feet tall .
