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The Art of Growing
Dogwoods in
Containers
Mark Halcomb, UT
Dr. Amy Fulcher, UT
Dr. Donna Fare, USDA
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Container grown dogwoods
Dogwoods can be successfully grown in containers – with attention to detail
All of you have had success
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Container grown dogwoods
Dogwoods can be successfully grown in containers – with attention to detail
All of you have had success
Problems that seem to continually arise
Fertilization issues
Over watering
Poor drainage
Avoiding roots
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Address problems early
Problems that are identified early in the growing season, may be remedied
Problems that are allowed to get serious, is seldom corrected
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Dogwood nutrition
Fertility/Nutrition
Optimal pH 5.0 – 6.5
Optimal EC 0.5 - 0.75 mmhos
Recommend ½x rate CRF at potting
½ of what? ½ of low rate
i.e. 19-5-9 Osmocote Pro (12-14 mo)
1x rate = 11-14 lbs / yd
(1/2 rate) = 5.5 lbs / yd
Recommend ½x rate topdress in May
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Fertility/Nutrition
Winter potting & placed in overwintering
Can get release due to warm temperatures
Important to keep substrate moist otherwise fertilizer salt will burn root tips
Winter potting & placed outdoors
Can get root damage from extreme temperatures
Dogwood nutrition
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Macro elements
Minor elements
Bilderback, 2001
Nutrient availability
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Fertility/Nutrition
Recommend ½x rate topdress in May
What about a 2 year production cycle
In spring of 2nd year top dress with a
1x low rate CRF with minors
i.e. Micromax provides ~ 18 months
Dogwood nutrition
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Container grown dogwoods
Fertility/Nutrition
Micromax 6.0 % Calcium (Ca)
3.0 % Water Soluble Magnesium (Mg)
12.0 % Combined Sulfur (S)
0.10 % Boron (B)
1.0 % Water Soluble Copper (Cu)
17.0 % Iron (Fe) -- 13.60% Water Soluble Iron
2.5 % Water Soluble Manganese (Mn)
0.05 % Molybdenum (Mo)
1.0 % Water Soluble Zinc (Zn)
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Lime or dolomitic lime ??
Not recommended unless irrigation water tests indicates low amounts
Test irrigation water annually
Jan/Feb and Jul/Aug are 2 best times
Container grown dogwoods
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Roots
Root tips take up nutrients
Damage to root tips – little to no nutrient uptake
May not be visible or detected on foliage if roots are not checked
Symptoms – yellowing, chlorosis, necrosis, poor
Dogwood root system
growth
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Substrate
Media management with all plants
piles, pH, dry areas
pH – too acidic, seldom too alkaline (high pH)
Dry areas – hydrophobic
Container substrate
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Handling bark piles
Improper handling of bark piles
If stacked > 8 feet or compacted then an accumulation of alcohols or acetic acid (lower pH).
If dry areas in bark piles exist (< 34% moisture by wt) then bark is extremely difficult to rewet.
Bark may be anaerobic (pH < 3.5 & EC > 2.5 mmhos – this can kill bare root plants.
High fungal populations, mycelium may make wetting difficult.
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Substrates
100 % pine bark
10 – 20% of bark extender (organic)
Cotton gin waste
Mushroom compost
Fluff
Peat moss
Must manage irrigation to match substrate!
Container substrate
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Potting depth is critical with dogwoods
Potting depth - dogwoods
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Lowest water content
Highest air level
Highest water content
Lowest air level
Container grown dogwoods
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Potting depth
Sap flow system - measures a heat index and correlates heat and stem diameter to amount of water moving up the xylem tissue in the plant.
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15-18 Aug 2005
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Potted at correct depth
Substrate surface 6-inches
above root
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Root flare2 – inches
Root flare4 – inches
Cherokee Princess Dogwood
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Stepping up plants ?
Always water before potting
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July 2010
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2 weeks later -
Daily irrigation
> ¾” rain
Dry pockets
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Stepping up - Container size
15 gallon7- gallon
15 - gallon
Backfill
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3 gal 15 gal = 20 % 80 %
7 gal 15 gal = 44 % 56 %
10 gal 15 gal = 70 % 30 %
15 gal 25 gal = 58 % 42 %
Displacing Adding
Stepping up - Container size
3 gal = 674 cu in.7 gal = 1342 cu in.
10 gal = 2373 cu in.15 gal = 3396 cu in.25 gal = 5811 cu in.
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Container Dogwood - Moisture
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My Dogwood Problems!!
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Things Improved-Systems Approach!
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Whole Systems Approach
Photo credit: Donna Fare
Substrate
Fertilizer
TemperatureLight
HumidityWater
Years in Production
Container Size and Shape
Wind
Plant Size (leaf area)
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Flowering Dogwood
Natural environment
Cool forest understory, edge
Shady
Deep soil
Rich soil-evenly moist
Constant, low nutrient
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Container Nursery Conditions
High root and foliage temps
No shade (usually)
Substrates/Moisture
Extremes – wet or dry
Irrigation - a lot of water, infrequently?
Container - shallow
The Opposite!!
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Container Nursery Conditions
All of these impact plant water use (and irrigation)
The Opposite!!
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Container Nursery Conditions
Hot – full sun
Leaves
5.4 °F higher than air
Roots
120 + °F
JOHN W. MARKHAM III. COLOR AND SHADING OF CONTAINERS AFFECTS ROOT-ZONE TEMPERATURES AND GROWTH
OF NURSERY PLANTS. MS Thesis. Kansas State University. http://krex.k-
state.edu/dspace/bitstream/2097/3298/1/JohnMarkham2010.pdf
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Container Nursery Conditions
Hot – full sun
Leaves
5.4 °F higher than air
Roots
120 + °F
Greater heat-> greater water loss evapotranspiration
JOHN W. MARKHAM III. COLOR AND SHADING OF CONTAINERS AFFECTS ROOT-ZONE TEMPERATURES AND GROWTH
OF NURSERY PLANTS. MS Thesis. Kansas State University. http://krex.k-
state.edu/dspace/bitstream/2097/3298/1/JohnMarkham2010.pdf
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Container Nursery Conditions
High root temps can also damage roots.
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Container Nursery Conditions: Substrates
Substrates/Moisture
Fine texture
or
Coarse texture
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Container Nursery Conditions: Substrates
Forest Floor
Barky Beaver Pro. Grow Mix Metro Mix 280
Pine Bark Mulch
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Container Nursery Conditions: Substrates
Substrates/Moisture
May be fine and wet or coarse and dry quickly
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Container Nursery Conditions: Substrates
One substrate may be both!
Fine/wet at the bottom
Coarse/dry at the top
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Container Nursery Conditions: Substrates
Both
Heavy (wet) at the bottom coarse (dry) at the top
Not homogeneous
Strata/layers
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Container Nursery Conditions: Substrates
Wet at the bottom, dry at the top
dogwood birch
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Container Nursery Conditions: Substrates
Roots on top - dogwood, roots on bottom - river birch
dogwood birch
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Container Nursery Conditions: Substrates
Dogwood and birch belong in different zones
dogwood birch
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Substrate Conditions Affecting Moisture Content
Hydrophobic
Channeling
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Container Nursery Conditions: Irrigation
Overhead Sub-irrigation
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Container Nursery Conditions: Irrigation
Root Growth - Sub-irrigation
Oxygen balance moisture
Roots choose to live where they like it
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Container Nursery Conditions: Irrigation
Root Growth - Sub-irrigation
Oxygen balance moisture
Roots choose to live where they like it
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Q. How Much Water Do Dogwoods Need?
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A. How Much Water Do Dogwoods Use?
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How Much Water Do Dogwoods Use?
Planted 30”+ bareroot liners into #7 previous year
Barky Beaver Professional Grow Mix
August
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How Much Water Do Dogwoods Use?
Make Your Best Estimate!
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How Much Water Do Dogwoods Use?
Planted ¼” cal., Anderson bands into #1, current year
MM 280
August
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How Much Water Do Dogwoods Use?
Your best estimate
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How Much Water Do Dogwoods Use?
Taxa Time since
last
irrigation
(hours)
Transpiration
C. florida „Cherokee Princess‟ 24 2.1 lb./33.6 oz.
C. kousa „National‟ 24 1.3 lb./20.8 oz.
C. x Constellation® 24 1.4 lb./22.4 oz.
7 gallon pot-in-pot plants
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How Much Water Do Dogwoods Use?
Taxa Time since
last
irrigation
(hours)
Transpiration
C. florida „Cherokee Princess‟ 24 2.1 lb./33.6 oz.
C. kousa „National‟ 24 1.3 lb./20.8 oz.
C. x Constellation® 24 1.4 lb./22.4 oz.
C. florida ‘Cherokee Princess’ uses 1.6 more water
“every day”!
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How Much Water Do Dogwoods Use?
Taxa Time since last
irrigation
(hours)
Transpiration
C. florida 24 0.6 lb./9.6 oz
C. kousa 24 0.5 lb./8.0 oz
1 gallon plants
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How Much Water Do Dogwoods Use?
Taxa Time since last
irrigation
(hours)
Transpiration
C. florida 24 0.6 lb./9.6 oz
C. kousa 24 0.5 lb./8.0 oz
1.2 more water “every day” – cumulative!
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How Does Weather Affect Water Use?
What drives evapotranspiration (water loss)
Light (Solar Energy)
Wind
Temp
Vapor pressure deficit (humidity)
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How Does Weather Affect Water Use?
What drives evapotranspiration (water loss)
Light (Solar Energy)
Wind
Temp
Vapor pressure deficit (humidity)
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Ever have a plant wilt overnight???
How Does Weather Affect Water Use?
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Plant Growth and Development
Bareroot vs fully foliated
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Plant Growth and Development
Small versus large
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Small Plant Vs. Large Plant–Why?
C. florida C. kousa
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Q. When Do Dogwoods Need Watered?
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A. To Maintain Moderate Moisture
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A. To Maintain Moderate Moisture
Small pulses of water??
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What Worked?
Lots of things have worked!
Lots of things haven‟t work!
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What Worked?
Very coarse substrate didn‟t work for me.
Extremes in moisture?
Peat-based substrate did.
Moderated moisture extremes?
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What Worked?
“Overhead” irrigation worked well on well-rooted container dogwoods, not smaller ones
Took up a lot of water, didn‟t stay wet for long.
Sub-irrigation worked well
Allowed the roots to grow at their optimal water oxygen conditions
Never a moisture deficit
Never saturated
Consistent, low nutrients
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What Worked?
Standard, not squat pots.
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Container grown dogwoods
Start with a healthy root system
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Moisture Concerns Over the Winter, regardless of the method
Roots & substrate must not dry out
Bark can dry & become hydrophobic
Hard to wet
Acetic acid can form
Roots can die
No symptoms until after spring flush
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How to Overwinter Dogwoods
Poly house
Outside is a gamble, 21o can kill roots
A trench ??
PNP ??
Stacking will conserve space but may interfere with getting the substrate irrigated over the winter
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Sawdust can keep roots too wet and
perhaps insufficiently protected.
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A Poly house is the safest method to protect,
with weekly inspections for moisture.
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Overwintering House
A single layer of white poly
Have a plan to provide supplemental heat
Be prepared to irrigate every few weeks
How long should the water run?
1 hr/ 2 hrs/ until water runs out bottom/ til the cows come home/
Enough to saturate the rootball
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Substrate can dry out too much
Root damage or death
Become difficult to wet
Dry spots form within the root ball
Acetic acid form
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Result could be:
No additional growth after the initial flush
Many growers might suspect the fertilizer is gone without knowing
Monitoring leachate would have found the acid pH in April (soluble salts)
Rootball inspection would have found the dry spots in April or earlier.
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Check containers for moisture weekly during winter regardless of method
This is harder for a manager of a field operation to understand and do.
Can not do from pickup truck
The difference between thinking the containers are moist enough and knowing they are moist enough is called checking !!
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Checking containers for moisture weekly during winter would find/avoid?
Avoid substrate becoming hydrophobic
Avoid dry spots
Avoid acetic acid formation
Gain normal plant growth
Success: A quality, salable crop.
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How do you check for moisture in substrate?
Pick them up, by weight?
Feel for moisture on the media surface?
A moisture meter?
Stick your finger into the media 10”
Remove the container, look & feel
Check several
Around edge, in middle, near door
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What do you do before a hard freeze?
Drain the water lines?
Not just yet !!!!
Irrigate the container crop first
A moist root system is less likely to be damaged by the cold temps
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Ask
Have all of your container dogwood crops been salable? For most part?
Any idea what was done differently?
Did you have a grower in charge?
Who is in charge?
Who checks?
Who uses the Myron L meter?
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Take charge of the dogwood crop
Delegate and then Inspect
Determine how much water is applied in 15 min/ 30 min/ 60 min, etc of overhead
Use rain gauges. Learn wind patterns.
Check for uniformity of overhead irrigation
Determine how much water is applied in 1, 2, 3, and 5 minutes if spray stakes
Check for uniformity of the spray patterns
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Telling me you irrigate for an hour is worthless information.
We want to know tenths or quarter inches
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Do not become a Copy-cat
If someone is successful with an hour of irrigation 3 times a day
Do not try it
Irrigation head size varies,
Water pressure is not same at all nurseries
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Do not become a Copy-cat
If someone in Fla uses Epsom Salts (Mg) and has dark green foliage
Do not try it without asking a Nsy Spec
No reason to assume it will work for you
Their water may lack Mg and yours may have plenty.
MicroMax contains enough Mg
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Become more responsible for your actions
If you call an expert in July for issues that began in May . . . . . .
Even though you are sinking and grasping to save the crop avoid knee jerk reactions.
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PleaseI need the Evaluation forms filled out
Thank you !!