When you transplant a plant can you transplant it with the foliage and the same dirt?
Question:This is a question from my mother who wants to know. Thanks.
Answers:
Yes, you should. This helps the plant from getting shocked from the transplant. Assuming you are transplanting from a smaller container to a larger one, do break up the root-ball through.
Greetings! How do you transplant a plant without the foliage? Wouldn't that be counterproductive? Don't mess with the roots too much unless they are wrapped around the rootball in an endless circle.
OK, Hold up a second.. If this is a small plant, you can transplant it pretty much any time, it just need to be almost floated away just after it has been replanted to push the air bubbles out of the root ball. Without that it will dry up and die.. For that first watering, make it almost soupy, put the hose down into the loose dirt on a medium flow rate.. it will find gaps in the soil to settle the loos soil and the water will seem to disappear for a short time.. It is filling the loose soil below the plant. Let it dry until barely mosit and begin watering a little more than you would on a "normal" basis.
For a large shrub ot tree, you have a higher probability of killing it if you transplant it in the summer.. The bigger the wose.. For shrubs, you often have to prune them back heavily to keep them from stressing out and dying... after all you can dig up all of the roots so it is loosing some of its absorbtion in the process..
For trees, unless the tree has a heavy or waxy leaf like oaks, maples, other hardwoodspine trees, and magnolia's it has a very high probability of dying..This will the same intial treatment and need daily watering for a while if it is hot outside or windy. Larger than 5 foot trees require a professional extractor or you will mostlikely do enoug hdamage to the root system rtying to get it out that it is game over for the tree.
Do not replant large (5-6 feet or taller) frilly leaved trees like decorative cherries, fruit trees, and the like in warm weather.. These leaves are too thin. The tree already looses a lot of it's water through them and cutting the roots out will stress it out too much.. And as said by another contributor, you can't do it without the leaves in the summer..
If the plant it is in a pot already, that could be considreed transplanting it.. and that has a much higher rate of success any time becasue you don't generally lose root mass as it was all in the pot.
If it is winter/fall and the tree has dropped it's leaves and is dormant, then it will have a much greater chance of moving it successfully. You still need to water it thuroughly that first time and don't do it when it is below freezing for the whole day and night.
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