Re: Couple of tree questons

On Sat, 17 May 2008 22:50:32 -0500, "Dioclese" <NONE> wrote:

>How come it takes more than one season for a transplanted pecan sapling
to 
>establish itself, and start producing stems/leaves of any appreciable 
>amount?
>
>How come among the many ligustrums I planted, the ones furtherest from
tree 
>and other natural cover are being eaten by white-tailed deer/ ones in the

>vincity of such cover aren't bothered?

Pecan's take a while to establish their tap root.  It pretty much
takes most of the trees energy to do this.

Deer are forbes eaters and will eat anything when hungry. The plants
they aren't eating may have spray from cats or other animals on them
which will deterr them.  Many factors.