The roots look pretty good. GO definitely sends more roots than Bay Laurel, at least in the last couple orders I’ve gotten from those nurseries.
The trees I just got from GrowOrganic:
The middle tree above was a bit skimpy on the roots, but the other 4 all look great. As it turned out, I was planting 4 of them in a property which had been used for a garden, so it was pretty easy to dig nice big holes.
The 5th tree was going somewhere that it wouldn’t be as easy to dig a big hole (in a gap in hedges in the front yard of another location). So, I put the small-rooted Honey Jar there. After I did so, I thought more about it and regretted it a bit- by putting a Honey Jar near the sidewalk, people will discover how good jujubes are and invade the backyard (this property has another 6-7 in the back) to get more.
For comparison, here is a pic of last year’s Bay Laurel order.
And last year’s Grow Organic order:
Note that last year’s GO was from LE Cooke, while this year’s was from DWN. I think that the BL order was from a mix of LEC and DWN last year. So the difference is something which gets done to the tree as it is boxed up, not from the original grower.
I should put a note on my vendor comparison thread to update it with Grow Organic.