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When is the best time to transplant a fir tree? 

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The best time for planting trees is autumn when they are dormant and the risk of desiccation is minimal.
For the given optimal height of an adsorbent bed, the most appropriate time for replacing tree bark is when breakthrough first occurs.
The optimal time to transplant is when the root has reached two-thirds to three-quarters of the final root length.
Prudent landscape professionals can enhance chances for successful establishment by timing tree transplant operations to coincide with ideal seasonal conditions.
With changing climatic conditions, proactive forest management, such as the shelterwood with reserves in the spruce-fir forest type, is the best method for increasing short-term resistance and long-term resilience to spruce beetle outbreaks.
Description of early post-transplant root growth will help formulate best transplanting strategies for landscape trees.
Though undesirable as a Christmas tree, momi fir might be useful as a rootstock for grafting better quality species in areas affected by root rot.
On the other hand, fir was relatively adaptable tree species that regenerated very well when the pressure of stress factors subsided (air pollution load, Caucasian bark beetle, frost damage).
from Mount Rogers support observations made for other fir species that A. piceae infestation induces outer bark formation, leading to tree recovery.
At tree level, fir decline and health problems are more localized and advanced on seed trees left after the last cuttings.