Collected prunus

Napo_v

Hi everyone,

Does anyone have experience collecting Prunus serotina ssp. capuli? One of those guys was growing in my backyard for 3 years. I never planted it, it just appeared one day. It reached about 4 or 5 feet, then I pruned it back and it re-bud, and grow again about 3 feet. It was growing just to the side of a wall, and nobody wanted there so I dug and pulled it, but unfortunately not many feeder roots were near the surface, but I pulled it anyways. It’s been in a plastic pot for three weeks now, some leaves turned yellow and fell, but I has many others that are green.


You cannot see it from the picture but it has a quite long foot, a root maybe 1-foot long that is why I had to plant it near the edge. I also used rooting hormone in the cuts to help it to produce roots.

Do you think it has chances of survival?

The base is around 3 inches and is about 3 feet tall.

Any information or comment will be appreciated.


Best regards,



Napo

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bonsainotwar

One teensy little nit to pick.Bonsai trunks are measured across at the base,not around by circumference.I got beaten up pretty bad for that here a couple of years back.Other than that let me say prunus of all kinds are probably my favorite tree of all to work with.Every good thing people say about Acer Palmatum goes quintuple for prunus.They're all good,but if you have the luxury of styling them in the ground,then all the better.