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Inexpensive privacy fence update

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6 May ’13 - 8:56 am

For people who followed my old thread on the SG, if you remember we had priced out planting some trees from a nursery and the cost was almost 5000 dollars, I couldn't justify that. So I did some research and found giant green thujas, so I bought 100 trees online for 99 cents apiece and planted them all around the property, they were only like 6 inches tall

here's the same trees yesterday, a bunch are over 3 feet tall, the shorter ones in the front are ones I replanted 2 years ago due to winter kill off

amazing how much has changed in 3 years

they are suppose to get thirty feet tall

they say 1-3 feet of growth per year, we have seen more around a foot, but we also haven't been fertilizing them at all, I should start doing that

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7 May ’13 - 9:15 am

Those are awesome, KVR. Green Thujas have been on my radar too. There are a few spots where we could use the privacy, especially in the winter when the trees lose their leaves, but I just haven't gotten around to it. Good to see how low the price is when they are small. My plan was to buy ones that were already 4 feet tall or so but the cost was going to be much higher. Those things are going to make a great barrier.

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7 May ’13 - 10:54 am

yeah the bigger ones were like 30 bucks apiece, this is the cheapest I can find online at 1.99 apiece for 100 now

http://www.quicktree.....giant.html

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1 Oct ’13 - 7:25 am

holy crap, they exploded with growth this year, I am 6 feet tall, a lot over taller than me now

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26 Apr ’15 - 5:52 pm

We had a member sign up and was asking about how these were growing, he found this thread through google, I really didn't think they had grown that much since I made this thread, I was wrong