Is it too late to plant bare root tree now? Ordered chojuro asian pear and Blondee apple from starkbros, will get it tomorrow. Not sure if I should plant or grow them in pot first. Located at 5b, weather is not too hot yet, high will be 70s-80s in the coming weeks.
Thanks.
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I’m in 7A and just put in a couple of pears from Starkbros this past weekend. They are showing some leaves starting to emerge and I expect they’ll be fine. I would normally plant earlier, but this time an oak came down and squished a few of my trees so I suddenly needed some replacements.
As long as they didn’t get dried out or otherwise die during the long storage you should be okay.
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I’m also 5b and have put in bare root in only a week or two earlier than this. They were fine.
fistbump on the chojuro. I put one in this year too!
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You’ll be fine. I’m in southern Wisconsin, and I’ve replaced several trees the past couple weeks that were damaged over winter. A few came from stark bros, even a chojuro. The good thing about being in the northern zones, is we can take plant late and take advantage of the end of season sales.
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