1 season lol. Depends where you live, I'm on the edge of town in Vegas and wind gusts coming across the desert are very very destructive. Up to 80mph gusts sometimes with the occasional 50mph sustained for the whole day. Wood stakes snap right off so I use metal fence posts with the plate at the bottom. Yes I give them room to sway but I wouldn't dare unstake them after a year, especially the Chinese pistache with slim trunks when they are young.
Great but we have cedar trees along the fence line up in Snoqualmie and when we removed the stakes two of them started to blow over. What do we do instead?
That's what it sounds like to me. Seems to be very negative on the plastic chain but there's many other things to use but no advice given there. I live on the bluff of a bay in Canada zone 5b. I will steak my trees for their first year. For windy winters I will have the supports snug and loosen in the spring. This is the advice for my area.
1 season lol. Depends where you live, I'm on the edge of town in Vegas and wind gusts coming across the desert are very very destructive. Up to 80mph gusts sometimes with the occasional 50mph sustained for the whole day. Wood stakes snap right off so I use metal fence posts with the plate at the bottom. Yes I give them room to sway but I wouldn't dare unstake them after a year, especially the Chinese pistache with slim trunks when they are young.
I'm taking mine off right now! Thank you
Great but we have cedar trees along the fence line up in Snoqualmie and when we removed the stakes two of them started to blow over. What do we do instead?
Just staked my nectarine that’s in the ground about 6ft tall but has been leaning slightly most of its life. Now I wonder if I should take it off.
This advice may not be widely applicable. What if you like in an area of high wind?
I took mine off but the top is starting to lean as thw growth is top heavy to one side (towards the sun)
So the thesis is the apllication of stakes is your concern. Not the stakes themselves.
That's what it sounds like to me. Seems to be very negative on the plastic chain but there's many other things to use but no advice given there.
I live on the bluff of a bay in Canada zone 5b. I will steak my trees for their first year. For windy winters I will have the supports snug and loosen in the spring. This is the advice for my area.
What about top heavy trees like hydrangea trees or new fruit trees? Any suggestions?
Use 16mm rebar for a stake. Won’t snap, won’t rust. Check out Chiltern Heritage Orchards for video on how to plant a fruit tree. 👍
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Whether you think or believe the Stakes fitted good or bad , but shaking them back & forth damaging somebody else’s work is a bit disrespectful
Makes sense, don’t stake it, break it.