Are these maple seedlings able to be transplanted?

[Daniel son STL]

Leaves have already opened, but I’m not doing any root work, just a simple slip-pot. I did carefully transplant a cpl in the fall of last year and a cpl died. I really don’t want to kill these.
Would you guys wait till next year or just do it now?

Japanese maple cuttings btw

 

[RoadManDenDron]

For seedlings I would just do it

Also don't be shy to work the roots, you at the very least want to remove the tap root

But I wouldn't hesitate to work the roots hard

Can always provide extra humidity afterwards if you were concerned

 

[Piedmont Bonsai]

Leaves have already opened, but I’m not doing any root work, just a simple slip-pot. I did carefully transplant a cpl in the fall of last year and a cpl died. I really don’t want to kill these.
Would you guys wait till next year or just do it now?

Japanese maple cuttings btw

Id leave alone this year and transplant next year

 

[Daniel son STL]

I messed up the title. These are not seedlings, they are cuttings

 

[Daniel son STL]

Id leave alone this year and transplant next year

Do you mean next season before buds open?

 

[Shibui]

I messed up the title. These are not seedlings, they are cuttings

Do these cuttings actually have roots? Many cuttings will sprout leaves well before they grown new roots. When propagating cuttings I wait until I can see roots emerge from the bottom of the pot before I declare success.
As far as the initial question,

Leaves have already opened, but I’m not doing any root work, just a simple slip-pot. I did carefully transplant a cpl in the fall of last year and a cpl died. I really don’t want to kill these.
Would you guys wait till next year or just do it now?

Generally, there's no problem transplanting successfully rooted cuttings even when they have leaves open. You can also leave them until the following year. Roots may be a bit tangled by then but should still be able to be separated. Growth is definitely slower while several plants share the same soil space so you need to decide whether growth is a priority.

 

[Daniel son STL]

Do these cuttings actually have roots? Many cuttings will sprout leaves well before they grown new roots. When propagating cuttings I wait until I can see roots emerge from the bottom of the pot before I declare success.
As far as the initial question,

Generally, there's no problem transplanting successfully rooted cuttings even when they have leaves open. You can also leave them until the following year. Roots may be a bit tangled by then but should still be able to be separated. Growth is definitely slower while several plants share the same soil space so you need to decide whether growth is a priority.

Yes out of the 50+ cuttings I took of 4 different varieties, I have 11 with roots that survived the winter. I’m actually kind of surprised. These little guys were completely submerged in snow for 2 weeks at one point. I just left them. Only the strong survive.

I may just go ahead and carefully separate them now then.
Thanks for your input

 

[leatherback]

Yes out of the 50+ cuttings I took of 4 different varieties, I have 11 with roots that survived the winter. I’m actually kind of surprised. These little guys were completely submerged in snow for 2 weeks at one point. I just left them. Only the strong survive.

I may just go ahead and carefully separate them now then.
Thanks for your input

I have just separated my rooted cuttings from last summer into individual pots.

 

[bpancakes]

Yes out of the 50+ cuttings I took of 4 different varieties, I have 11 with roots that survived the winter. I’m actually kind of surprised. These little guys were completely submerged in snow for 2 weeks at one point. I just left them. Only the strong survive.

I may just go ahead and carefully separate them now then.
Thanks for your input

nnice! Bump the thread with an update either way with how it went

 

[TomP]

I would wait until they have several sets of real leaves. Frankly they do not look crowded so I don't know if you would benefit from transplanting at this point

 

[Daniel son STL]

I have just separated my rooted cuttings from last summer into individual pots.

Did they survive?

 

[Daniel son STL]

I would wait until they have several sets of real leaves. Frankly they do not look crowded so I don't know if you would benefit from transplanting at this point

A cpl are by themselves. One container is a
5-tree clump probably about to start battling to death over nutrients. I need to get in there and break things up a bit.

 

[Daniel son STL]

nnice! Bump the thread with an update either way with how it went

As of now everything is separated. I’ll definitely update if anything dies

 

[Daniel son STL]

Update. They all lived. A cpl looked almost a little sad for a sec but that’s also possibly because we were getting such heavy rainfall right afterwards. All thriving now though!