badly transplanted a massive fatsia japonica
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 8:34 pm
near me are some council houses that have been cleared and are going to be demolished.
i saw i rather large looking specimen of a fatsia japonica and thought i may as well try and dig it up since it was most likely heading for the dustbin anyway.
when i got down to actually digging it up it was planted in a very akward spot and i was not able to do it aswell as i had hoped.
it has a very thick trunk at the base (about as think as a human neck) and it splits into three (which split further) and each of these three trunks are about 3-4 metres tall/long.
it has a little crown of leaves at the end of each branch and all brances were flowering.
(i will try and post a pic on the 'morrow)
i got a very small rootball about one and a half to two foot cubed
it is planted in a big pot now
i have cut four large side branches right off to make it fit in my garden (they spead sidesways rather than up)
i would prefer to not cut anymore off since it looks about right now and it would defeat the point of digging a big plant up if i cut it back to nothing
i removed all the flower spikes/shoots, added some fish blood and bone and soaked it thoroughly twice (a little time apart)
tommorow i plan to water it with warm water with added palmbooster.
so my questions are what are its chances and what else can i do to improve those chances?
i saw i rather large looking specimen of a fatsia japonica and thought i may as well try and dig it up since it was most likely heading for the dustbin anyway.
when i got down to actually digging it up it was planted in a very akward spot and i was not able to do it aswell as i had hoped.
it has a very thick trunk at the base (about as think as a human neck) and it splits into three (which split further) and each of these three trunks are about 3-4 metres tall/long.
it has a little crown of leaves at the end of each branch and all brances were flowering.
(i will try and post a pic on the 'morrow)
i got a very small rootball about one and a half to two foot cubed
it is planted in a big pot now
i have cut four large side branches right off to make it fit in my garden (they spead sidesways rather than up)
i would prefer to not cut anymore off since it looks about right now and it would defeat the point of digging a big plant up if i cut it back to nothing
i removed all the flower spikes/shoots, added some fish blood and bone and soaked it thoroughly twice (a little time apart)
tommorow i plan to water it with warm water with added palmbooster.
so my questions are what are its chances and what else can i do to improve those chances?