Silverberry root galls

[PastryBaker]

A friend and I both got Silverberry trees at a swap meet a while back. I was going to leave mine in the nursery pot til spring. She repotted her tree last week and told me that her tree had root galls. Which I had to look up. Should I repot it and remove them? Or wait til spring?
It is late in the season, even though out here the days temps are in the 70s and the nights in the 50s now. In a month or so the days will remain around the 70s but the night will drop to the low 50s and 40s.
If I shouldn't repot, is there anything I can do?

Thanks

 

[rockm]

You could apply an anti nematode treatment to the soil. Root galls are generally produced by soil dwelling nematode worms that get to to root tissue and cause the tissue to callus forming the gall

 

[KateM]

Also be aware that silverberry are nitrogen fixing plants and they do have nitrogen fixing nodules on their roots.

 

[PastryBaker]

Also be aware that silverberry are nitrogen fixing plants and they do have nitrogen fixing nodules on their roots.

I just looked up "nitrogen fixing plants", wow, that was very interesting. And the way it works.
So the galls are part of being nitrogen fixing? Would it harm the tree to remove them?

 

[PastryBaker]

You could apply an anti nematode treatment to the soil. Root galls are generally produced by soil dwelling nematode worms that get to to root tissue and cause the tissue to callus forming the gall

I will look that up.

 

[KateM]

I just looked up "nitrogen fixing plants", wow, that was very interesting. And the way it works.
So the galls are part of being nitrogen fixing? Would it harm the tree to remove them?

I think the nitrogen fixing nodules can be confused with nematode galls. They are not the same and nematode galls are not fixing nitrogen.
I think they might look similar and ones can be confused with the others...

 

[Dav4]

Root nodules are normal and expected with silverberries.

 

[PastryBaker]

Root nodules are normal and expected with silverberries.

Thank you. The tree is very healthy and growing, so I am not sure if the galls are hurting it.

 

[SeanS]

Root nodules are normal and expected with silverberries.

I posted some info and photos in @Dav4 silverberry thread, I’ll try find the post

 

[Dav4]

I posted some info and photos in @Dav4 silverberry thread, I’ll try find the post

These are the nodules I found when I repotted my Silverberry last spring.

 

[SeanS]

This post and the following 2 are about the root nodules

 

[PastryBaker]

These are the nodules I found when I repotted my Silverberry last spring.
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wow,,are those form another planet.

 

[PastryBaker]

This post and the following 2 are about the root nodules

Thank you so much.