Then prepare to spend thousands of dollars and years of work in order to achieve 1 Florida peach tree in the desert
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You want swales and support plants. Really though, water doesn't want to draw into the soil in deserts, you have the oposite problem of it wanting to roll over the surface. To slow water down and influence penetration you need to swale the landscape and add plants to hold it together. Trees are last to come in this system. You cant just stop water from filling the landscape if you do manage penetration, thats not how it works. You want living ecosystems that keep the ground wet along with charged mini aquifiers via swaling/keyline design.
even worse with DDG
its becoming so bad searches are almost useless.
for those who don't know many web pages just ai copied together shit that serves as carrier for ads and Amazon links.
the information's are unlogical or just wrong.
You want swales and support plants. Really though, water doesn't want to draw into the soil in deserts, you have the oposite problem of it wanting to roll over the surface. To slow water down and influence penetration you need to swale the landscape and add plants to hold it together. Trees are last to come in this system. You cant just stop water from filling the landscape if you do manage penetration, thats not how it works. You want living ecosystems that keep the ground wet along with charged mini aquifiers via swaling/keyline design.
>To slow water down and influence penetration you need to swale the landscape
Stop right there, this is now a wetland and mere citizens have no right to disturb it.
You need to have this overseen by a civil engineer, and continously monitored afterwards in case desert fauna establish a presence in your wetland and are identified as the only known example of the western desert peach toad in existence so their habitat can be preserved.
If you claim that this is absurd an activist born James O'Leary in Long Beach, Ca. to an Irish-American dad and mexican mom who now goes by the tribal name of Jimmy Peach Toad will organize a sit-in and regale the press with stories of the spiritual importance desert peach toad to the culture of his people and ancestors, and you will be a pariah.
OP, don't say you weren't warned.
They're like this with Joshua trees. But the inland empire is most full of meathead dirt bikers and construction contractors that will do literally anything and use the Bible as a excuse.
There was a road project in San Diego that was shut down for almost a year because the potholes and tire tracks on the temporary service road used to haul equipment and materials filled up with spring rains and were declared "vernal pools" that *might* potentially be habitats for endangerd fairy shrimp whose habitat had been largely wiped out by the late 70's..
this was 20 years later, no shrimp were ever seen in the potholes and it nearly bankrupted the contractors who couldn't even move their equipment back out because of muh imaginary skrimps...but made some do-gooders feel important and vote for the pols who pandered to them (after approving the project to begin with) so that's all that matters.
I don't believe you. I happen to live next to a nature preserve that is full of vernal pools of fairy shrimp, and they still run cattle, horses, quads, and pickups through it.
Setting aside the OPs location and choice of tree, this kind of deep watering system is great until the roots that are especially attracted due to lack of water in arid locations seek out and fill up the holes in the pipe.
Not so big an issue with softer leafy plants, vegetables etc. but with woody trees they can become mostly useless at just the time when the tree is mature...depending on the tree attempting to clear it or remove and replace it or install a new one in another location can damage or stress the tree too and if it's one that can barely survive there with specialized watering infrastructure it's likely to not be up to getting its roots disturbed.
I've done it. It works for a while, but the tree roots will plug up all the holes in the pipe after <2 years and you have to pull them all out to un-plug them. It's a good idea if you have hydrophobic soil.
>google
>desert peach
>desert peach
It's a Florida peach actually.
Then you will probably have to do it in a greenhouse. Ambient humidity will be to low without it
>google
>Go lookup a AI generated article.
Are you guys moronic? its a species of peach. It grows in the desert.
I don't want all my water to just run right through the porous soil.
Its literally native to the desert. Answer me are you moronic or not?
That is outside the scope of this thread.
Then prepare to spend thousands of dollars and years of work in order to achieve 1 Florida peach tree in the desert
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There are no species of peach that grow in the desert, moron. Get better bait.
That's a species of rosebush, moronic troll.
even worse with DDG
its becoming so bad searches are almost useless.
for those who don't know many web pages just ai copied together shit that serves as carrier for ads and Amazon links.
the information's are unlogical or just wrong.
You want swales and support plants. Really though, water doesn't want to draw into the soil in deserts, you have the oposite problem of it wanting to roll over the surface. To slow water down and influence penetration you need to swale the landscape and add plants to hold it together. Trees are last to come in this system. You cant just stop water from filling the landscape if you do manage penetration, thats not how it works. You want living ecosystems that keep the ground wet along with charged mini aquifiers via swaling/keyline design.
>To slow water down and influence penetration you need to swale the landscape
Stop right there, this is now a wetland and mere citizens have no right to disturb it.
You need to have this overseen by a civil engineer, and continously monitored afterwards in case desert fauna establish a presence in your wetland and are identified as the only known example of the western desert peach toad in existence so their habitat can be preserved.
If you claim that this is absurd an activist born James O'Leary in Long Beach, Ca. to an Irish-American dad and mexican mom who now goes by the tribal name of Jimmy Peach Toad will organize a sit-in and regale the press with stories of the spiritual importance desert peach toad to the culture of his people and ancestors, and you will be a pariah.
OP, don't say you weren't warned.
They're like this with Joshua trees. But the inland empire is most full of meathead dirt bikers and construction contractors that will do literally anything and use the Bible as a excuse.
There was a road project in San Diego that was shut down for almost a year because the potholes and tire tracks on the temporary service road used to haul equipment and materials filled up with spring rains and were declared "vernal pools" that *might* potentially be habitats for endangerd fairy shrimp whose habitat had been largely wiped out by the late 70's..
this was 20 years later, no shrimp were ever seen in the potholes and it nearly bankrupted the contractors who couldn't even move their equipment back out because of muh imaginary skrimps...but made some do-gooders feel important and vote for the pols who pandered to them (after approving the project to begin with) so that's all that matters.
I don't believe you. I happen to live next to a nature preserve that is full of vernal pools of fairy shrimp, and they still run cattle, horses, quads, and pickups through it.
Have you seen Geoff Lawton's "Greening the Desert?"
Absolutely, been a permie for years in theory, small scale in practice. Lots of mulch gardening in this house.
Setting aside the OPs location and choice of tree, this kind of deep watering system is great until the roots that are especially attracted due to lack of water in arid locations seek out and fill up the holes in the pipe.
Not so big an issue with softer leafy plants, vegetables etc. but with woody trees they can become mostly useless at just the time when the tree is mature...depending on the tree attempting to clear it or remove and replace it or install a new one in another location can damage or stress the tree too and if it's one that can barely survive there with specialized watering infrastructure it's likely to not be up to getting its roots disturbed.
>swales
There is no significant natural water or rain to capture in this spot. It will be all artificially watered unless the tap roots go very deep.
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I've done it. It works for a while, but the tree roots will plug up all the holes in the pipe after <2 years and you have to pull them all out to un-plug them. It's a good idea if you have hydrophobic soil.
How deep did your pipe go?