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Message: [QUOTE="Chin Diesel, post: 4339758, member: 34"] Thanks for revising this thread. I was going to start a new similar thread, but I think I can just put a different twist on this one. "Things you made it further along in life without doing than you should have made it throughout life without doing". To wit. Over 50 years old and this spring planted a tree for the first time in my life. They weren't sapplings and they weren't full mature trees. A couple of crape myrtles and a maple tree. Bought them at a nursery and I would guess they are 2-3 years old. So, they obviously made it from seed, up through the dirt and lived in captivity fine. Now it became my job to dig a hole, plant, and water. My maple tree was about 12'-14' when I bought it and probably about 2" in diameter in the trunk. I dug the hole deep, covered it up and have diligently watered it every day. After a few days I noticed some of the leaves on smaller branches were just dying out. So, I had to learn or figure out how to trim a tree. Never really did that either. At least not for the purpose of pruning some to save the whole. Just did normal pruning like after a storm or an obvious defect. Google is fine and all but I've been out there more than once with a hose in one hand, beer in the other trying to figure out how much water it needs. I've been on the ladder looking around like I have a clue which smaller branches and twigs I should prune to help the rest of the tree grow. One crape myrtle seems to be growing best. It's about ready to bloom and it is growing relatively straight up, the other one is growing but growing more like pubic hair or ingrown hairs. Everything is curving and growing towards the middle. Maybe if I refer to it as a crepe myrtle instead of crape myrtle it'll grow better. So there it is. Took more than 50 years to actually plant a tree and then realized I have no inherent knowledge on how to properly grow a tree. [/QUOTE]

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