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I might be digging up a 10 foot trachy soon. Can the rootball be small (18"x18") and can I cut off most of the leaves?

Why are you digging it up, if you dont mind me asking?



Im not to familiar with their root structures, so im going to use the example of a decidious tree.


There are a few ways..

You can hire a tree removal company, and brings in thsi goiant cone shapped attatchment for a backhoe, that takes the tree, and dirt out, without harm (relitivly of course)

The other way, is to dig it out with shovels, about a foot or 2 away from the trunk, and maybe 2 feet down.

The other way I know, take about year. You dig around the tree 1 or 2 feet away around the trunk, maybe a few inches deep. This will encourage fine mat roots, rather then the thick tap roots. Then its a matter of pulling it out during the spring.


And to answer your other thread.... AS far as I know... no, palms cannot be rooted from cut trunks.

I'm digging it up because I know someone who doesn't want it anymore. I am probably going to dig it out like the ones in this picture but with a bit more root system if I get it.

know someone who doesn't want it anymore

There are people like that?

Let us see some pics of it arriving and being planted please.

Barb

I have dug up 3 Trachys and replanted them about 5 miles away.

The rootballs did not resemble those in the picture. Much bigger as the roots were rather long. In fact, the soil fell away from the roots and it was "bare rooted" for all intents and purposes.

They did not like being moved and I thought one was going to perish. But they have all adapted and are prospering now. In fact, I will probably dig up #4 in the Spring and move it a few feet as its too close to another one.

As was said, dig a wide, generous hole around it. Take your time and it will be fine.

EDIT- Can you wait until early Spring? Tansplanting followed by winter, even your mild one, is a helluva shock.

Excellent advice from JackLord to wait until spring.
Late summer/early Fall plantings aren't recommended, although if you MUST, then Vancouver's west coast is probably the only place to do it then.
Pray for a mild winter if you do it now.

Barb

Somebody else got it before me so I'll have to wait for the next one.