radhatter
Seedling
I picked up this Japanese larch a few days ago from a local nursery. Its rootball was bound in burlap. It had a nice trunk so I decided to take a gamble on it and when I unbound the rootball to put it in a pot I discovered it was planted in nearly pure clay. The clay ball fell apart in chunks and it basically bare rooted itself. I also discovered that other than a large taproot that was cut when it was dug up, there were nearly no roots. Maybe 10-20 spaghetti sized strands roughly 6” long. It wasn’t as if they broke off in the clay, there were nearly no roots to begin with.
I put it into a 5 gallon nursery can in pumice, lava rock, some bark compost, and a bit of akadama.
My question is for those who are experienced with larch. Should I basically just accept that this tree isn’t going to make it or have you found that there is enough energy in the trunk and growing buds to power it through making roots to support itself this year?
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