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Originally Posted by mgc
Nice set of pics, a nice specimen, and a job seemingly well done !
On a reflectory note.....
When I see a guy dressed up for bear, on a rocky hillside, in the middle of February, jerking a dormant, but albeit hapless plant out of the ground and bare-rooting it, presumably that day or the next .... there's no way I'm worried about fungus, shock, or stored food in roots or whatever, for having stuck a shovel in the ground a few times around each of a bunch of plants a few days ago on a mountainside in northern Pennslyvania.
I actually think I'm going to sleep nights now ... Thanks Hans!
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This is a good point that needs to be explained!
It is allways better to save as mutch from the rootbal as posible, especialy whit evergreen trees!!!!
But trees that lose there foliage are dormand when their been collected and there fore mutch more tolerand than evergreens! when they come alive again in early spring, they whil make alot of new small roots on pruned roots, just like they do above ground with lots of buds on pruned branches!
In case of the collecting of this howthorn, there just arend any more roots on the tree! Because there hardly is any soil in between all those rocks!
Like with all collected trees the afther care is just as importend for the tree to servive.
Best wishes ,
Hans van Meer.
