Planting Of Trees - Break Of Natural Yearly Pattern

[c64]

Hi there.

I'm back in my home country and got some oak and hazel nuts from a work mate.

Some of the nuts have already sprouted and I planted them today in flower pots.

They have been kept in the fridge for about two months but it didn't seem to

help

Is this messing up the natural rythm for the trees? We got 4 seasons up here so I

wonder if the trees later on will be out of sync with the realities outside?

Seems like I'm going to get my own forrest before I aquire some land to let it

grow in.

Regards

[WatersEdge]

They will figure out the seasonal rhythm when you transplant them outside.

Greenhouse operations make a living at planting things indoors while it's too cold outside.

When it's warm enough that the seed would naturally have sprouted under natural conditions,

then they also will do fine transplanted.

In the Nevada high desert,

coming out of Winter into Spring

Young Alfalfa plants green earlier in the Spring than old plants of the same variety

and they get nipped back by late frost for being too early

but after a couple of years they learn to lie dormant longer.

How can a plant "learn" the local conditions,

adjusting its breed characteristics to experience,

then memorizing that experience for subsequent years?

It happens, to the fascination of the farmer observing it.

Is that the question for the answer...it isn't real clear what you want to know.

Are you thinking of planting those temperate zone trees in Thailand?

That's a whole nother deal, because they likely need cold weather and

a large summer to winter spread in daylight hour period

There is a reason that the same plants don't occur in different latitudes

Even annuals like Corn have to be bred for the shorter tropical summer day length

Surprising at first mention, that a tropical day would be short,

but Summer days at higher latitude are much longer

while in turn the Winter days are much shorter.

Tropical latitudes have less variation

We somehow manage in the tropics,

because we aren't limited by the number of days it takes to give the plant the total hours of sunshine it wants.

[drtreelove]

You must read to them from "The Farmers Almanac" and "The Secret Life of Plants" until they get it right.

Poot len / joking. Seriously, Waters has it right I think "They will figure out the seasonal rhythm when you transplant them outside"

[c64]

Hi there Watersedge and Treelove.

Thanks It cleared up.

With other words it won't harm them and they will adjust to the seasons later on - great.