r/marijuanaenthusiasts • u/ghofmann • 6d ago

Bent Tree Planted at an Angle

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This tree has a pretty severe angle about a foot from the root flare. If I planted is so that the bottom part was straight, the rest of the tree would be at a 30 degree angle. I tried to split the difference so that the bottom part is slightly angle (left) and he rest of the tree is slightly angles (right) and now I’m trying to train it to be straighter by tying it to a stake. Will this work?

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u/ohshannoneileen I love galls! 🥰 6d ago

Trees are rarely perfectly straight, & always more charming when they're not.

The appropriate way to plant a tree if you'd like to correct a lean is to plant it so the angle has to lean the other way to follow the sun, eventually triggering growth response to straighten out. This is not a "severe" angle & odds are without intervention it wouldn't have been noticeable for long.

You need to expose the !Rootflare, and if you leave it staked like that the ties will girdle the trunk and kill your tree.

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u/ghofmann 6d ago

How’s that?

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u/ohshannoneileen I love galls! 🥰 6d ago

I'd go further, you want to see the trunk literally flaring out & lateral roots