My own experience of collecting hawthorns is that they tend to be very quick
to strike roots, but very slow to put on significant root growth. The best
results I've had have been using akadama and grit 50:50 and plenty of
patience.

Similar story when trying to airlayer hawthorns, they produce roots
tantalisingly quickly but then you have to wait at least a couple of years
before you get anything really capable of sustaining the tree. Needless to
say, I gave up trying airlayering!

Mike Bennett. UK


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lewis"
To:
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:21 PM
Subject: [IBC] Hawthorn transplanting


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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