(Jim Lewis) wrote in message

If you are disastrously not successful, you'll know inside a
month, maybe 6 weeks.

Otherwise, if it clings stubbornly to life you'll be on
tenterhooks through the winter and into spring before you
find
out whether it decides to make it. I have had late-collected
juniper put out new growth the following spring, then decide
it
took too much stored-up energy to maintain it, and wither
away.

Superthrive will neither help nor (probably) hurt.

What i really wanted to know was: How soon I can start
treating these
junipers like junipers and put them in the sun ? I'm not going
to do
any 'bonsai' work or cause them any further stress until they
get some
new growth next spring for sure ! I just don't want them to
languish
in the cooler shade when they need to be junipers. So ... 6
weeks
you think ?

Allen . . .

_I_ can't answer that definitively because I don't know (or
remember) where you are from. If you lived down here, or in the
desert southwest or other very-hot-and-sunny locale, I'd tell you
that it would be safer to keep them in afternoon shade all
summer.

Afternoon sun in many parts of the US is very hot and plants tend
to transpire rapidly in hot sun. With a poor, just-dug-up, and
dug-up-late, root system that could be lethal.

Perhaps if you are in the northeast or northwest (maybe even in
the northern Midwest???) all-day sun would be OK.

Juniper do NOT need full sun all day long -- even healthy
junipers.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.

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