Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Renovating a Pond or Lake? 2.5 Acre Pond Gone! work/restroation thread

You will want to prune the tree so there is only one "leader" that is reaching for the sky or you will have a bald cypress that has a twin trunk when it's mature, and if that happens it will be susceptible to splitting down the middle.

They will grow faster if you put them in a tree tube. The tubes will also protect them from getting browsed by deer, and they will allow the tree to grow faster. I've been using these tubes and the difference between a tree in the tube and not in the tube is amazing. I'm seeing over 12" of growth on the trees inside the tubes just this year already.

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A customer has 600+ trees (saplings) that have been decimated by deer every year. We put tree tubes around all of them this Spring and none have been bothered by the deer yet. Saplings that were broken off last Fall and only <3' tall are now pushing out of the top of the 60" tree tubes.