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2-Dec-2004	#1
Fade bonsaiTALK Neophyte Join Date: Nov-2004 Posts: 3	Transplant advice. I have a chance to collect this oak tree, I think it's a live or a laurel oak maybe. It's leaves look very much like a live oak but the form of the tree and bark do not, but anyway... What happened was... Hurricane Ivan blew the tree over flat this summer. It's laying on the ground with it's roots mostly exposed with a few feeder roots still left very shallow and a lot of dirt is still on the roots that are basically in the air now. After I realized the tree was living, I examined the roots and saw it has no tap root at all. All the roots radiate out from the trunk. It's in an area where other larger trees shade it somewhat and it's damp, with a nearby creek, I'm sure that why it has survived up to this point. I found the tree laying over the day after Ivan came through and thought surely it would be dead in a day or 2, but with no watering or any care whatsoever, the tree is growing vigorously like all the rest...putting on new leaves ect... It's about 20' tall if it were standing and has just one incredible looking buttressed flared trunk. The reason I don't think it's a live oak is this huge buttress because in my experience, live oaks don't tend to flare like that. Whatever I do, it will have to be trunk chopped. OK, here are my options.. 1. Chop the trunk and attempt to stand the tree more upright, brace it somehow and collect it in the spring. 2. Chop the trunk and just leave it the way it is and cover the roots up with soil and leaves to protect them from drying out and collect it in the spring. 3. Chop it and collect it as soon as it goes completely dormant. This is the option I'm leaning towards because the tree could easily die with it's roots nearly all exposed and it's in a place that I cant care for it regularly and I think I can get nearly all the roots..There are several low branches I could leave with leafe buds. I would chop it much longer and do another final chop in a year or 2 (if it survived) of growing in my garden. Our trees are still very green here, -even have an azalea blooming. Dormancy hasn't set in yet. (Gulf coast - zone 8 -subtropical). Ok, What would you do?

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8-Dec-2004	#2
Fade bonsaiTALK Neophyte Join Date: Nov-2004 Posts: 3	Well, I decided to wait till late fall/early spring to collect the oak. I went over and covered the roots really well and piled some leaves on top of that so it should be OK until then. Hopefully, the mild winter were having will last through the season.

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