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Old junipers usually dont have many fine roots close in. The pic shows it has very few roots at all. As the above poster mentioned, dont remove any green yet. If it survives, it will jettison a lot of the green as is.

I recognize these from amazon :P

I like noble firs (and subalpine firs) - some of my favs. Good luck. IMHO - i might (if mine) plant in the ground for two or three years to let it fatten up, while keeping those lower branches wired and pruned short (while growing a sacrificial leader). But thats just me. Good luck.

Grafting evergreens is a lot harder than grafting apples and pears etc (i know from personal experience). Having said that, if time isnt an issue, I would suggest root pruning that hemlock in the very early spring. Then wait a full year before transplanting it the following spring. Better chance...

The foilage naturally grows "flat" instead of from all sides of the branch. (Ie, the needles are on one plain as if pressed flat. Like yews.). I find it hard to make nice "pads" with it. :/ But i love the bark.

One of my fav trees around here - but the flat foilage makes it a bit tricky imho.

In. Will try to collect some pin oak seeds from one of my job sites in the next few weeks.

Now we just need me walking headless horseman :p neat tree

You really went to town on them. :0

Never heard amabalis fir called lovely fir before. Up here in BC we call ‘em pacific fir or simply amabalis fir. You going to be root chopping them and then treating them as cuttings, as the title suggests. Hope you tell us how it goes. I’ve wanted to do that for a while now with amabalis...

Should be able to treat it like any other true fir. Abies that is.

Good luck. Evergreens don’t generally like bare rooting. But young ones are more resilient than old ones to it. Make sure to include some of the original soil from around its parent trees to inoculate the soil with fungus.

Nice. It’s shaping up well. Sadly mine didn’t survive the winter. Never had an alder not survive a winter. :s

Actually plants can /do feel pain in their own way. Just an fyi.

Seriously. I’ve never had luck airlayering or taking cuttings of mine. :(

Only :P

Me too. some of my smallest leaves (when i had the maple in a bonsai-ish pot) were about an inch in size. Without defoliating. so its promising imho.

Fair enough - still seems wrong to be barerooting mature evergreebs imho lol

Seen this guy on YouTube. Asked him but never got a reply. :/

That we can still easily get minus five to minus ten C here, and that there should still be another 6 weeks of winter.

I’m north of you up near Vancouver BC. Another week or ten days like this and our cherries will be flowering.

Careful. My lab ate a few of my bonsai when she was a puppy.

Any updates? :)

Nice work. I’ve got a big leaf maple in the works. How far have you been able to reduce the leaves? I’ve got them to under two inches in the past, but this year I’ve stuck her in the ground to fatten up so they’re huge (as they should be).

a fool and his money soon part