Hi all,
I finally found some on my very own property!!! They were
hiding under a
youpon plant and somehow I just had missed them..lol.. There
appear to be 3
individual plants together, I hope so.. The tallest is about
18" - 2 ' tall,
and the others are much smaller. Now, My question is this, As
fall is right
around the corner, do I wait to dig them up and pot them, or
should I go
ahead while they have their leaves on them, so I can tell if
they stay
alive..lol....
Should I cut the roots if I dig them up? To repot them? all
help greatly
appreciated...

Hawthorn can be VERY tricky to dig successfully. WAIT until eary
spring! If you found 3 trunks close together, I'd guess they all
come from the same root. You will want to start digging well
away from them to find out. Get as much root as humanly
possible, doing as little damages as possible. I'd recommend
planting them back into the ground and leaving them alone for a
year or two before putting them into a large TRAINING pot for a
few more years.

PS. I also have one other type of Hawthorn.. it has oval
slightly serritated
leaves and thorns about 2" long.. and berries the resemble
small rose
hips...these are all large trees, when do you take the hips to
plant for
new trees and when do you plant them?

Watch the trees. When the berries start to fall, that's when you
plant them. It may take a couple of years to germinate. Dirr
says to soak DRY haw seeds in acid (he doesn't say which) for 2-3
hours then warm stratified for 120 days at 70-77 degrees F,
followed by 135 days at 41 degrees F. This is for C. crusgalli;
other species don't require the acid bath, but DO require the
hot/cold treatment. C. crusgalli sounds a bit like what you
have, though Haws are the most difficult plants to differentiate.

I wouldn't go to all the trouble to grow haws from seed. I have
never had a cutting take.

The best way to get a hawthorn is to buy one from a nursery that
sells native plants.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman

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