Tree Guards
Nurserymen, orchardists and nut growers have relied on Adapt8’s corrugated plastic Tree Guards to protect their investments for more than 25 years. Tree Guards easily wrap around tissue culture tree trunks to protect their thin, sensitive bark for years.
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Benefits of Tree Guards
Protection from Nature and the Elements
- Protect from southwest sunscald
- Ward off trunk splitting and cracking due to frost and cold winters
- Stop predator damage, especially deer antler rub and jack rabbits
- Reduce sucker sprout growth
Create a Buffer for Equipment and Operations
- Prevent tractor and weed-eater damage
- Protect against herbicide spraying
- Eliminate trunk scarring during transport and while digging
Constructed for Long-term Use
- Durable and reusable
- Stores flat conveniently
- Made in USA
How Tree Guards Work - Science
Many types of young trees have thin cambium layers directly under their outside bark, and if these layers are damaged, the trees can experience issues with growth and even death. Such trees are fragile and more susceptible to sunscald, also known as winter crack. Sunscald appears mostly when snow is on the ground and the sun is out. The sun heats the bark, causing the tree to come out of dormancy. When temperatures drop, the cambium layer cracks, killing the tree. To avoid this outcome, the tree trunk must maintain a neutral temperature, which can be accomplished with Adapt8 Tree Guards.
Tree Guards wrap the base of a tree in single-wall polypropylene, colored a reflective white on the outside and heat-absorbent black on the inside. The Tree Guard slows heat transfer and loss, keeping trees from becoming stressed and damaged. As a result, growers experience less discarded stock and more vivacious, healthy trees.
Adapt8 Tree Guards are easy to install and adjust to grow with the trees. The guards are wrapped around the trunk – white side facing out – and secured with twist ties. Kept on the tree, the guards offer protection from the orchard to the customer, as a ribbed interior cushions the product for shipping to customers, assuring maximum profit and quality products.
Trees that benefit from Adapt8 Tree Guards include:
- Bigtooth Maple
- Thundercloud Plum
- Skyline Honeylocust
- Sterling Silver Linden
- Boxelder
- Cleveland Select Flowering Pear
- Chaparral Weeping Mulberry
- Glenleven Linden
- Highland Park Maple
- New Bradford Pear
- Kankakee Newport Plum
- Malus-Apple
- European Hornbeam
- Redspire Flowering Pear
- Newport Plum
- Fraxinus-Ash
- Pyramidal Hornbeam
- Prairie Cascade Willow
- American Linden
- Prunus-all varietiesNorthern/Western
- Catalpa
- European Mountain Ash
- Redmond Linden
- Corylus-hazelnut
- Autumn Purple Ash
- Pyramidal Mountain Ash
- Greenspire Linden
- Populus-aspen
- Patmore Ash
- Cardinal Royal (TM) Mountain Ash
- Krauter Vesuvius Plum
- Gleditsia-honey locust
- Imperial Honeylocust
- Oakleaf Mountain Ash
- Tilia-lindens
- Salix-willow
- Shademaster Honeylocust
- Lirodendrom-tuliptree
- Quercus-oak
- Betula-birch
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