{"id":4092,"date":"2019-12-04T02:58:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T02:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mli.org.au\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2020-03-26T03:04:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T03:04:21","slug":"kinking-and-j-rooting-in-eucalyptus-root-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/kinking-and-j-rooting-in-eucalyptus-root-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinking and J-rooting in Eucalyptus root-stock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Discussion paper by John Baker, Hovells Creek Landcare Group<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Hovells Creek Landcare Group (HCLG) has been implementing a NSW Environmental Trust-funded paddock tree project in recent years, which has seen the Group plant more than 2,000 paddock trees. The Group&#8217;s Deputy Chair, John Baker, has been managing the project and in addition to producing <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/uppersnowylandcare.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=219dfbc792c112a221e469a64&amp;id=b09e6df738&amp;e=374b31ed38\" target=\"_blank\">five videos<\/a> on paddock tree planting he has also been investigating various aspects of paddock tree planting.<br><br>A key issue which John has identified is that of kinking and\u00a0J-rooting\u00a0in eucalyptus tube stock trees.\u00a0HCLG believe that this is a significantly underestimated problem, which will benefit from serious consideration by all of those involved in paddock tree planting. To this end, John has prepared a discussion paper &#8211; Risks arising from\u00a0J-Rooting\u00a0of Eucalyptus trees. In his report, John demonstrates that nearly half of a sample of trees from six nurseries failed to meet the relevant Australian Standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mli.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HCLG_Discussion_Paper_on_J_Rooting_Risks.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read the full discussion paper here. (opens in a new tab)\">Read the full discussion paper here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John and HCLG welcome comments and feedback on the paper; you can <a href=\"mailto:john@jreabaker.com.au\">email John here<\/a>. <br><br>Further information regarding HCLG\u2019s experience with paddock trees plantings is available on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Hovells Creek Landcare Group website (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/hovellscreeklandcare.org.au\/resources\/paddock-trees\" target=\"_blank\">Hovells Creek Landcare Group website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion paper by John Baker, Hovells Creek Landcare Group Hovells Creek Landcare Group (HCLG) has been implementing a NSW Environmental Trust-funded paddock tree project in recent years, which has seen the Group plant more than 2,000 paddock trees. The Group&#8217;s Deputy Chair, John Baker, has been managing the project and in addition to producing five&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","iawp_total_views":110,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[94,95],"class_list":["post-4092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides-and-reports","tag-native-vegetation","tag-revegetation","pmpro-has-access","category-91","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}