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Thanks Jim, Jessie,Kent, Jay. Scott I used a hand truck, moving dolly to leverage it into the truck and then garage. They work great for moving all my large palms. Maybe you`ll be in need of one soon? 8) Barb that is a good idea for getting water down into the roots. I`ll give it a try. He used quality soil with lots of perlite to transplant it.
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John
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Posted : 19/11/2011 3:55 pm
Oh, I have one. Use it to move some larger stuff here, but that pot of yours looks really heavy..
Anxious to see pics of it when it gets the TLC you'll give it. Sure can't beat the price!
Scott/Omaha
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Posted : 19/11/2011 4:05 pm
He used quality soil with lots of perlite to transplant it.
That's it then! That's the problem.
Assume that the root ball is growing in a clay-ish soil.
Dried up, it's like concrete and repels water.
Because the previous owner used good soil around the rock-solid rootball, so water just runs off the crap soil and through the good perlite soil without getting to the roots.
Happened to me before too.
He should have either tried to break apart (gently) the rootball so that root tips could freely get into the new good surrounding soil,
OR
used the same type of crap soil for the rest of the big container as he had around the rootball.
I'd use that "root ball puncture" method then a cool 2 gallons of water poured into the skinny "dowel" holes.
It takes a while, even use a kitchen funnel.
ASAP...otherwise won't last until spring.
Barb
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Posted : 19/11/2011 7:00 pm
Great work, John! I know that you'll have it back in shape by the spring! 😀
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Posted : 19/11/2011 7:40 pm
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