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Tree Tube Tips: Achieving peak growth of seedlings in tree tubes

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Admin

Here’s an informative post with tips for optimizing growth of tree seedlings in tree tubes. The key point:  Always prune seedlings to a single stem before applying tree tubes!  Not only will the trees have better form, they will grow … Continue reading →

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Tree Tubes 101: Two great video channels teach tree tube basics

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Admin

The best way to understand how tree tubes work and is to see – and hear – for yourself. Two great You Tube video channels are devoted to showing landowners how to make their tree planting projects more successful than … Continue reading →

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Tree Tubes – Oaks producing acorns in 4th growing season!

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Admin

Amazing. What do you get when you combine top notch oak seedlings from Nativ Nurseries… … with the best tree tubes you can buy … with flexible PVC stakes … with a diligent landowner willing to do some weed control … 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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Tree tube testimonials continue to pour in

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Admin

I received this email today from a customer who had planted black walnuts in his garden and then transplanted them to various parts of his property this past spring: The tree tubes are working great.  I had enough left over … 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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Catalpa seedlings emerge from 5ft Tree Tubes in first year!

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Admin

I have received hundreds of them over the years but emails like this never, ever get old!  From a customer in northern Illinois: “Just a quick update.  I planted Catalpa tree seeds in my house in early March.  I transplanted … Continue reading →

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Best way to start a local drought: Plant trees!

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Admin

It never fails.  The year you undertake a large scale tree planting project sets records for heat and low rainfall. A day after receiving the email from a Kansas customer featured in the previous post I called another Kansas customer … Continue reading →

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