I dug a fairly large hawthorn (5 m tall and 15 cm diameter)
today from a
neighbor's yard (it got cut back to a meter). However, the
roots are
terrible. How well does hawthorn sprout new roots from large
cut-off roots
when transplanted? Does anyone have experience with inarch
grafting of
seedlings to create new rootage?


All the haws I have experience with are among the most difficult
to transplant. I've never managed one even close to that size.

Haws are one of those trees that are best transplanted by
degrees. They are, like wild blueberry (Vaccinium), a Genus
whose roots run for a very long distance and have very few small
root hairs.

I suggest you handle it a bit like a cutting and put rooting
hormone on the cut ends of all the large roots.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
David Thoreau - Walden

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