No but I tried not to disturb the roots. I was worries I had too much fertilizer in the soil. Just gently washed off the top layer and pot it back in moss. I'm still not sure what really killed this tree. It happened so fast.Had it started growing? If not, I would not have repotted.
Time will tell. Give it the rest of the summer to recover.
Of all my trees this happens to be my favorite. Sure it's a dreaded S shape but it's a tree that got me into this hobbyNot if you buy some of that BBF!
Of working on @ceriano hort skills, just remember the green in everyone's thumb came from dumb luck or dead plants, and we can't afford dumb luck!
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I sure do hope so!So I have this big podocarpus in a training pot that I tortured indoors during my winter boredom. Then I moved it outside into the shade a couple of months ago, and it just sat there and pouted. Very little foliage thanks to some poorly timed pruning. Then one of the goats got out and found it. Munch, munch, now we are down to almost zero foliage. I gradually transitioned it to full sun after that. Even bark can sunburn if you are not careful.
Well, just the other day when I had just about given up all hope and accepted I was probably looking at an expensive(-ish) education, I noticed some green poking out of a branch. Looked around, and realized these little buds were popping through the bark everywhere! Now it is growing pretty decent, and while I still learned something there, the education wasn't quite as costly as I thought it would have been.
The reason I tell you this is that even though your tree could in fact be dead or almost dead, these seem to be pretty resilient. They are just drama queens. Keep it watered, give it light, and it might just pop out some growth after a while!
To echo-on the resiliency/vigor of Podocarpus, my only Podo is one that I collected from the curb....mostly bare-rooted, with FL sun hitting it! Its recovery&acclimation to container-life was about as good as I would've hoped for had I dug-up the specimen myself!!So I have this big podocarpus in a training pot that I tortured indoors during my winter boredom. Then I moved it outside into the shade a couple of months ago, and it just sat there and pouted. Very little foliage thanks to some poorly timed pruning. Then one of the goats got out and found it. Munch, munch, now we are down to almost zero foliage. I gradually transitioned it to full sun after that. Even bark can sunburn if you are not careful.
Well, just the other day when I had just about given up all hope and accepted I was probably looking at an expensive(-ish) education, I noticed some green poking out of a branch. Looked around, and realized these little buds were popping through the bark everywhere! Now it is growing pretty decent, and while I still learned something there, the education wasn't quite as costly as I thought it would have been.
The reason I tell you this is that even though your tree could in fact be dead or almost dead, these seem to be pretty resilient. They are just drama queens. Keep it watered, give it light, and it might just pop out some growth after a while!
I'd love to hear your tips/approaches to developing yours!