jaximus
5 year old buck +
what do you guys use to secure your 1 gallon rootmaker round plastic pots to keep them from blowing over in the wind. i have 10 with b118 rootstocks that im keeping in pots until the fall, they were the weakest of my batch of rootstocks, and they are now around 4 ft tall. ive pruned all the side branches off so its just one leader growing straight up. the wind blows these around pretty easily. i also have 17 grape vine cuttings that are in the 1 gallon pots that range in size from 12" to 48" tall. the bigger vines have a small trellis. these are tough to keep upright in any sort of wind.
i was thinking of a frame type deal to hold them, but was struggling with ideas. i figure something that looks like a ladder, laid horizontally where the spacing of the 'rungs' would hold the pots by the lip at the top leaving the pot to hang. the pots had been set on the deck rail and when the plants were smaller it worked really well. now, they are too big and just blow over.
i will be moving in a couple months for a new job, so planting them isnt really an option unless i wanted to just put them out on my brothers land and have to move them again in the spring after the logging.
another option i was thinking would be to build a 4 ft by 1.5ft by 1 ft deep cedar planter with a liner and plant 2 grape vines in each. then just grow them as a container plant for a while.
im concerned with ease of moving and probably wanting to make something i can use for a few years as i plan to do grape vine cuttings for a few years
i was thinking of a frame type deal to hold them, but was struggling with ideas. i figure something that looks like a ladder, laid horizontally where the spacing of the 'rungs' would hold the pots by the lip at the top leaving the pot to hang. the pots had been set on the deck rail and when the plants were smaller it worked really well. now, they are too big and just blow over.
i will be moving in a couple months for a new job, so planting them isnt really an option unless i wanted to just put them out on my brothers land and have to move them again in the spring after the logging.
another option i was thinking would be to build a 4 ft by 1.5ft by 1 ft deep cedar planter with a liner and plant 2 grape vines in each. then just grow them as a container plant for a while.
im concerned with ease of moving and probably wanting to make something i can use for a few years as i plan to do grape vine cuttings for a few years