wiscwhip
5 year old buck +
Jake, did you get any kind of "guarantee" with those "transplants"? The reason I ask is that it is usually a hit or miss transplanting conifers of that size. Those trees will have enough "energy" stored in the wood to keep them "alive" through this fall and maybe even into next summer, but they could very easily run out of gas and brown out on you as well. I would recommend purchasing some large norway spruce plugs and getting them in the ground in that area as well as the ones you transplanted, in case they don't make it. I love the design of the "setup" you have there, and I would hate to see it set back if those transplants die next summer. You could likely check with Itasca Greenhouse or a few others and see if they will have any of the larger Styro 77 or Styro 45 Norway plugs ready for this fall. I don't think you would need many, a couple trees each between those transplants that you have there already, just to fill in the gaps and prevent having a large opening in the event that a transplant would die.
