I am looking ahead to next Spring and am wondering if members here know where I can find tree pots. These are for nut trees that will be started from seed; they have tap-roots that go down fast but do not spread much. So, ideally, the pots would be deep, but not wide. Perhaps a 4-inch diameter but 12-inch depth. I noticed some on a YouTube video showing people planting Butternut trees in Ontario: Also attached is a small still image from that video. Pots like this would be wonderful, but I have no idea where to find them. Anybody here know where they can be found in the Lower Mainland?
I'm answering my own question, in case other people may look around for tree pots. I still have not come across any in the Lower Mainland, but did find them offered by a company in Oregon that supplies tree pots to the silviculture industry, and anybody else who may need them. Steuwe & Sons (StackPath) They have a large variety of pots specifically for trees. For example, 6" diameter x 12" deep, or 6" diameter x 18" deep. I ordered some of the 12" deep pots and have a Butternut hybrid growing in one of them. Interesting story behind this seed. I was walking around in the back yard this Spring and noticed the nut stuck in a fork of a shrub, about four feet off the ground. No idea how it got there. I am not aware of any Butternuts nearby. Perhaps a crow dropped it, missed the concrete walkway, and got it stuck in the shrub instead. It looked similar to a Butternut, but it was too stubby, not elongated enough, so I assume it is a hybrid (Butternut x Heartnut, which are common. Finding true Butternuts is getting harder and harder.) In any case, I put it in a pot and it spent the summer growing. Now to find a permanent home for it. Anybody here interested?
