- PET LOSS - MUSIC LICENSE - LOT EXCHANGE Sometimes people put a
$10 plant in a $1 hole. What we say out here is you should put a
$1 plant in a $10 hole. You need to create a hole; it needs to
be much wider than the root ball. It's sometimes good to enrich
the soil. Whenever you plant a tree, or any plant, you're
damaging some of its roots, and you're going to have to give it
a little TLC. You want to have a healthy root system that will
expand. You want to provide some kind of inducement so that it
will expand. Roots are stupid, they're lazy, they'll take the
path of least resistance. So if you have a tiny little hole,
what are they going to do? They aren't going to try to push
through hard dirt. They're just going to travel around and
around, and around—until they stop working. If a plant is in a
stress situation, it can take nutrients from its old growth and
bring them to the new part. So if there's a nutrient deficiency,
where you'll see it is in the older leaves, because the plant is
kind of feeding on i