10+

Depends on the cultivar. There is a wide range and honestly.....nobody knows as you can see from the responses. The tree is over 10 years old.

Hey Dennis.  I interpreted Jack's question a little differently.  I assumed he knows what year it was rooted, and is making something like a little contest to see who can guess it from the clues.  Not sure, but that's what I thought this thread is.  :-)

Jack, do you know what year it was rooted, and you're just waiting for us multitudes to guess it?

Mike

p.s.  Though I guessed peanut shells (and maybe other nut shells) for the fertilizer, I see there's also what looks like a rubber band in the soil... makes me think maybe possibly a range of household kitchen compost for the fertilizer.  But I'll stick with my original guess from post #18 of peanut shells and nut shells.  :-)     When are you going to break the suspense?

oh, ok......i get it now.

thanks mike

Hungryjack we're hungry for the answer. Please!

So far, nobody guessed correctly  :-)

Since it has never been protected, it could have died back from winter and this could be new growth after the die back.  It was planted as a single cutting twig and it has multiple trunks now.  We don't know when the mother tree was planted, and since it is in Jersey it could have been planted 100 years ago!

My guess is 30 years old.

Ok, how about 8 years old and seaweed as fertilizer.

I'm sticking with my guess about fertilizer, but since I know now that 2006 wasn't the choice, I'll say August 2001.  

Mike

I'm just happy it's growing between a crack in the sidewalk because the new property has lots of cracks between boulders, so I might just stick a cutting in a few and see what shakes!  I'll guess 11 years and no fertilizer of any kind.

Suzi

8 years 9 months 12 days 18 hours 46 minutes and 59 seconds and only fertlized with urine

Dennis -are you sure it isn't 58 sec?

Not Dennis, but pretty sure  it was 59 seconds, it's much to tall for 58 seconds.

Sorry about the wrong name;)

I looked at the picture again and see you are right about the 59 seconds :)

25 yrs

Hey Noss!  Where have you been?  I like to see the ladies posting.  Hope all is well!

cheers!

Noss it looks like he scratched his face off, probably didn't want his pic shown.

How about 9 years old?  And, I shutter to think what the "fertilizer" could be, opens up a whole bunch of possibilities, lol!

Ok I was a little confused about the whole date thing but im changing my answer the tree is 15yrs +or- 2yrs and its human urine from a bunch of drunks hanging out back with no where else to go but in the area of the tree it could also be grub worm leftovers or dirt from a worm farm growing indoors ??

15 years old

2 years you gotta be kidding

Seriously!!!!!!!!!  August of 2010?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

What about fertilizer?  What variety?   That's pretty darn impressive!!!!!!!!!