wireme
Masterpiece
This one was dug from a raised bed this spring and into a pot for the first time. 4 years regaining health in the raised bed. I've found a well aerated woody soil raised bed to be very reliable in survival rates for Doug fir transplants, maybe more so than substrate and box. Junipers have done well also. The downside, although survival rate is great and vigour improves the rootballs sometimes come out almost unchanged from the day of collection, kind of strange. The trees have good vigour and usually have tremendous root growth the first year in substrate but are not in a state to remove the mountain soil so I still have to wait another year or two and be more cautious watering in the meantime. Doug fir roots do not like to be waterlogged.
Anyway, happy to have the tree in a pot, I hope it does well.
Anyway, happy to have the tree in a pot, I hope it does well.