Does it have potential?

[daygan]

Thank you so very much for linking this. It's destroyed my productivity tonight.

ha ha. you're welcome He does have some amazing progressions.

 

[jkd2572]

Being just transplanted recently, I won't pay much for it. Pay only what you consider is worth the risk w/ the chance it will likely die.

Good luck!

Actually. No roots were probably messed with with if he just stuck it in the ground. If that's the case offer 30 dig outside the original rootball. Drop in nursery can and take it. Heck offer $20 see we're it goes. There are always possibilities, if you like it get it. Sometimes doing or not doing is a learning experience worth $20-$50 bucks.

 

[Poink88]

Actually. No roots were probably messed with with if he just stuck it in the ground.

It got transplanted from another place 3 weeks ago and roots are not messed with? How is that possible? Note that the owner had it for 20 years in his old property.

 

[berobinson82]

Take a look through some of Pavel Slovak's progression documentations and you'll get an idea for the near infinite bending possibilities you might have with something like this with the right amount of care, creativity, and knowledge of the tree's capacity to bend.

I'm not sure about transplanting the tree. I tend to believe that if it was just transplanted and you know the size of the root ball, you can dig around that space, avoiding any disturbance of existing roots entirely, and the tree will experience no ill effects. However, on this subject, I defer to others with more experience than myself.

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[daygan]

Scrolling down advances the pictures in these series.

Or the right / left arrow... "end" and "home" buttons take you to the last and first pictures in the series... or click on any picture and then hit the play button in the top left-hand corner. They'll "play" in a slide format.

Sorry, Mike - side conversation! Anyway, I would think roots would have been "messed with" on a juniper that was dug up after being 20 years in the ground. Either way, I'm pleading the 5th on this one. Waiting for experienced opinions.