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A very important factor We’ve often seen is that construction schedules and moving times do not always coincide with all the best time for you to transplant trees. Ideally trees are transplanted when they’re dormant. Here is the period after the leaves drop in fall and prior to spring growth begins. However, never fear if you missed the perfect transplant time owing to 25 years or so of transplanting experience I have developed methods that allow for successful summer transplants.

With additional steps and treatments, I find it’s possible to transplant trees during the warm months. The essence antitranspirant and antidesiccant treatment applications will lessen the water loss, and stress related to water loss, of trees through the transplant process.

Precisely what are antidesiccants and antitranspirants? The dictionary gives two different meanings for ‘desiccant’ and ‘transpire’. Desiccation means to ‘dry or dehydrate’, where transpiration way to ‘pass through pores or membranes.’ Within the horticultural world an antidesiccant has to be substance used to stop dehydration in plants and an antitranspirant has to be substance that stops the loss of water from leaves. In the horticultural world both terms may be interchanged. For simplicity let’s only use antitranspirant from now on.