Removing soil will do nothing to harm the mycorrhizae established on a tree; the roots are full of the mycorrhizal fungus, and will simply put out more mycelium after the transplantation.



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Date: Sat Oct 18 21:07:15 EDT 2003
From: "Martin Haber"
Subject: [IBC] Washing roots
To:

Pines are fussy about removing soil from their roots. If you remove all of
the soil, you'll be removing the mychoriza as well. These trees depend upon
it to grow.


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