Thank you...
Yep... you actually thought the exact same thing as someone I know from another forum. He has a thriving, beautiful 7 year old cotoneatser he practically grew from a cutting and the first thing he told me was that he would do a submersion and then, solid waterings when the soil gets dry! So I did that this morning.
We are counting 4 buds on it... it definitely isn't dying, just waking up!The tree was in a cold greenhouse at the nursery. With the winters being what they are here, you can't leave trees out! The guy from the nursery told us he has been dormant since about mid/end november so that gives him to this date at least 2000 hours of solid dormancy which means he will be a bit confused come spring, but if we keep him at spring like temperatures near the open window until we can put him out, he should do fine. We'll just hold off on pruning too much and be gentle with the little one. This guy teachs us so much, he grows all his trees from his own seeds and cuttings (we actually have seen the parents to everyone of our trees!) so we trust him, he wouldn't lie to us. This cotoneaster is semi-evergreen so keeping some leaves while dormant his possible.
