So today my neighbor calls and asks if I could use hawthorns because I told him I want to steal his juniper. I told him it depends and if I liked them I'd dig them this spring. Well apparently he yanked them out because they were shorting out his electric fence. I come home and they are laying in my driveway bare rooted they looked pretty cool but the one had few fine roots I potted them in what I had because I really wasn't ready for them. Should I cut them back to give them a better chance or wait until spring. They have no leaves at this point in the year. And I figure if they die nothing is really lost but they do look cool