Absolutely incredible!!!!
Beautiful material.I hope it survives.
Thanks agraham. I'm pretty sure it will survive. When I collected it 4 years ago it had only thick roots and maybe a handfull (literally maybe 10 to the count) of small feeder roots. I rapped it in a plastic tarp and filled it in with the soil it came from (mostly Florida Sand). At that time I couldn't find a nursery can large enough for it.
It sprouted out and grew about 8 sets of leaves...and then I repotted it again about a month later into a nursery can I found. I washed all the original soil out and put it in the perlite/pine bark mix that it grew in for the next 4 years. So, it was collected and repotted all in one month!
This is one tough tree!
I wouldn't advise this as regular treatment, of course. But it was happend. And mostly because I was ignorant with a strong back and didn't care if it lived or died. It would have died if I left it in the ground. The people who owned the land it was in were going to have it pulled out of the ground and disposed of.
I have heard from other growers of crapes who have said that as long as they have a few feeder roots they will recover just fine. Given they are healthy to begin with.