Re: Tree to Move, Fert first? Help.
there was a presentation in St Louis @ ISA expo. it was given from a man from Stockholm I believe. they did an extensive study, still ongoing, on tree roots and their relationships with water/sewer lines. he had slide upon slide of roots that would find their way down, like torpedos!, to waterlines. pipe material played no role....plastic, iron, concrete, didn't matter. some roots traveled as far as 30' down to get to these pipes. once there the root would find a union in the pipe, and send out small fiburous hairs to that union. the small roots would make a tiny entry, feed off the wate and O2, and eventually clog and or break the pipe. it was amazing to see what trees are capable of.
another awesome slide was of a tree 15' above a WWII bunker. the roots had broken through the thick earth, concrete, etc barrier that this bunker was based under, and looked like a chasm of mineral deposist hanging from the ceiling. very eerie! again, the roots traveled down, and broke through a microscopic void to gain entry to a moist area with O2.
X, I think putting this water loving species above that pipe is an excellent idea......just think of the worse case scenario of the fiburous roots clogging/breaking that pipe.
