I have just transplanted a small spruce from the woods out behind my house,
to my side yard. The tree is about 15 inches tall, (smallish). Can I put a
Jobe-spike in the hole now, or should I wait awhile, until the transplant
"shock" wears off?
-- pj

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I have just transplanted a small spruce from the woods out behind my
house,
to my side yard. The tree is about 15 inches tall, (smallish). Can I put
a
Jobe-spike in the hole now, or should I wait awhile, until the transplant
"shock" wears off?
-- pj

If you're in an area where below freezing temps occur, don't do anything
that would encourage new growth. Leave it alone until spring.

pj wrote:
I have just transplanted a small spruce from the woods out behind my house,
to my side yard. The tree is about 15 inches tall, (smallish). Can I put a
Jobe-spike in the hole now, or should I wait awhile, until the transplant
"shock" wears off?
-- pj

You want to help it overcome the transplant shock without encouraging
new upper plant growth. Use a weak miracle grow mix followed by a root
stimulator fertilizer. (low 1st number with high second number, like
2-20-6).

Bob S.

pj wrote:
I have just transplanted a small spruce from the woods out behind my
house, to my side yard. The tree is about 15 inches tall,
(smallish). Can I put a Jobe-spike in the hole now, or should I wait
awhile, until the transplant "shock" wears off?
-- pj

I would suggest you can use them, but I would put only a few and only
like a foot away from the root ball. That should encourage root growth out
of the existing root ball into the surrounding soil. You don't want to
shock it with a lot of fertilizer now.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

"pj" wrote in message
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I have just transplanted a small spruce from the woods out behind my
house,
to my side yard. The tree is about 15 inches tall, (smallish). Can I put
a
Jobe-spike in the hole now, or should I wait awhile, until the transplant
"shock" wears off?
-- pj

I was surprised to find that searching for "fertilizing new trees" at Google
produced anything at all, but it did.

http://www.extension.umn.edu/distrib...re/DG7410.html

Forget the job spike it's no better than commom garden fertilizer
broadcast on the surface.
However consider that what you want to do is like asking a heart
transplant patient to eat a thanksgiving meal and run a marathon right
after surgery.
A better idea would be a few inches of shredded leaves as mulch and
careful attention to watering.
If you must fertilize it, wait til next year.
pj wrote:
I have just transplanted a small spruce from the woods out behind my house,
to my side yard. The tree is about 15 inches tall, (smallish). Can I put a
Jobe-spike in the hole now, or should I wait awhile, until the transplant
"shock" wears off?
-- pj