I got my 2ed order of trees today. These are from Grow Organic/Peaceful Valley. The trees were almost all really thick diameter- most about the size of a broomstick. But the roots were cut back BIG TIME! These were the most dramatically trimmed roots I’ve seen. The fact that such large diameter trees have so little roots is a bit concerning to me.
Here is a photo of all the trees and you can see the roots a bit in the first photo. The second photo shows the same trees in the same order, but with signs indicating what they are in case you wonder. The reason I made all the little signs is that I took close up photos of each tree and its roots with a sign indicating what kind of tree it is. I thought this might be useful if some of them die.
I’m pretty nervous, what do you all think? Even if they are ok, I just don’t understand the need to prune roots so hard like this. Surely they would do better/grow faster/be healthier with bigger roots. Of course these are all Dave Wilson Trees, BTW. They should know what they are doing and I assume they did this and not pleasant valley. Either way, I’d feel better with more roots!!