Tag Archives: Tree Tube Stakes

Tree tube background & history

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Admin

Many times I have a phone conversation or email exchange and then afterward realize that the information I covered with the customer might be helpful to many other folks.  This blog is a great way to replicate those discussions. Yesterday … Continue reading →

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Tree Tubes – for those of you keeping score at home

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Admin

The previous post linked to a You Tube video made by a gentleman who has planted Mossy Oak Nativ Nurseries seedlings over the past several years. The statistics go by kind of quickly, and some folks might not have video … Continue reading →

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Tree Tubes: Giving lie to the myth of the slow growing oak!

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Admin

J. Russell Smith, economic geographer and author of the landmark book Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture, wrote that oak trees should sue poets for damages.  Poets use oaks as a convenient metaphor for slowness; sturdy, strong, enduring… but slow! Oaks … Continue reading →

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Tree Tube Stakes: PVC versus white oak

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Admin

A customer from Kentucky called this morning to finalize his order for 4ft Tubex Combitube Plus Tree Tubes and PVC stakes.  He was excited about two things: 1) The fact that he was getting the best tree tubes on the … Continue reading →

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Why we can sell the best Tree Tube in the world for less – Part 37

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Admin

We are so conditioned to think that we have to choose between price and quality that it’s sometimes hard to get people to understand that with Tubex Combitube Tree Tubes you don’t have to sacrifice either price or quality – … Continue reading →

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Oak seedlings emerge from 6 foot Tree Tubes in first season!

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Admin

In 2012 we re-introduced 6 foot tree tubes in response to a growing number of reports of deer getting up on their hind legs and browsing trees emerging from 5 foot tree tubes. I sold 6 foot tree tubes back … Continue reading →

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Tree Tubes increase total biomass growth

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Admin

In the early days of tree tube use in the USA – back in the dark ages of unvented, small diameter tree tubes and before we introduced PVC tree tube stakes – one criticism of tree tubes was that they … Continue reading →

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PVC Tree Tube Stakes stand up to high winds… again

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Admin

I have been designing and marketing tree tubes for 23 years.  The biggest headache was always finding a stake material worthy of the tree tubes.  Eventually enough customers bragged about using 1/2″ schedule 40 PVC for stakes that I had … Continue reading →

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Ordering more Tree Tubes = a good thing!

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Admin

Every spring it happens dozens if not hundreds of times:  A customer orders 100, 200 or 500 tree tubes… uses them… loves them… and decides she/he needs 50 or 100 more. I happened again this morning.  The customer emailed to … Continue reading →

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More Rave Reviews for Tree Tubes

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Admin

I never ever get tired of getting emails like this from Robert in Ohio: “The tree tubes are working beyond my expectations!  I’d like to order 50 more…” And of course since Robert ordered a whole lot more than 50 … Continue reading →

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