Abies veitchii is an evergreen plant coniferous tree with broadly pyramidical form and horizontally spreading branches . May reach 75 feet in height with a 35 foot spread . The 1 - column inch prospicient needles are saturnine green and shiny , on reddish - dark-brown softly furred stems . The cones are blue - purpleness when immature , reaching 2 to 3 inch farseeing , cylindrical , and brown when mature . It like moist , well drain , acidic soils . It can survive in a semi - urban surroundings , so has some befoulment tolerance in comparison to other firs . May be subject to muddled aphid , canker sore and spruce budworm . A good specimen Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , aboriginal to Japan , introduced in 1865 .
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Plant Care
Fertilizing
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Pinching is removing the root word tips of a immature plant to promote fork . Doing this avoids the need for more terrible pruning after on .
Thinning postulate removing whole branches back to the trunk . This may be done to open up up the interior of a plant to have more Christ Within in and to increase aviation circulation that can prune down on plant life disease . The best room to get down cutting is to lead off by bump off beat or pathological wood .
Shearing is leveling the surface of a bush using hand or electric shear . This is done to maintain the desire configuration of a hedge or topiary .
rejuvenate is remotion of previous branch or the overall reduction of the size of a bush to mend its original form and size . It is recommended that you do not remove more than one third of a plant at a clock time . commemorate to remove branches from the interior of the plant as well as the exterior . When rejuvenating plants with canes , such as nandina , cut back cane at various heights so that plant will have a more natural look .
Watering
Planting
If container - grow , set the tree on its side and remove the container . undo the tooth root around the edges without breaking up the ancestor orchis too much . place tree in center of hole so that the best side faces forrard . You are quick to begin filling in with ground .
If plant a balled and burlaped tree , position it in jam so that the best side confront forward . unbrace or hit nails from gunny at top of ball and pull burlap back , so it does not stick out of jam when dirt is replaced . Synthetic gunny should be remove as it will not decompose like raw burlap . Larger trees often come in wire baskets . Plant as you would a b&b industrial plant , but cut as much of the conducting wire away as possible without in reality off the basket . chance are , you would do more damage to the rootball by removing the hoop . merely reduce away conducting wire to leave several tumid openings for roots .
Fill both holes with grime the same way . Never remediate with less than half original soil . Recent studies show that if your grunge is loose enough , you are better off add little or no soil amendments .
Create a water ring around the kayoed border of the hole . Not only will this conseve body of water , but will train moisture to perimeter ascendent , encourage outer ontogeny . Once tree is found , water ring may be leveled . Studies show that mulched trees grow quicker than those unmulched , so impart a 3 " " bed of pinestraw , compost , or powder bark over backfilled sphere . transfer any damaged arm .
Problems
Prevention and Control : keep weed down , scout individual plants and remove cat , apply label insecticides such as soaps and oils , take vantage of innate enemies such as parasitic wasps in the garden and employ Bacillus thuringiensis ( biological war ) for some caterpillar species . disease : BlightBlights are cause by fungus or bacteria that shoot down industrial plant tissue . symptom often show up as the speedy spotting or wilting of foliage . There are many different blight , specific to various flora , each require a wide-ranging method of control .
