Mike Hennigan
Chumono
Like Smoke said, it's not great material, but it was also cheap, so if you kill it it won't be the end of the world. I'm no expert so take my 2 cents with a grain of salt, but I would cut the roots back extremely hard, to just stubs with basically no fine feeder roots, so that your roots are set up to radiate out properly. And i would chop the height down to some degree to reduce the water demand on your nearly rootless tree. Then I would protect it by keeping it in FULL shade, and put the entire pot and tree inside a clear or white garbage bag to preserve humidity until new shoots emerge and begin to harden off (open it up daily to let it breath a bit). This is a great way to kill many trees, but with this method at least you could really see if the potential is there to make a nice tree in one year, instead of wasting 5 years of work on it, etc.
