Diatomaceous Earth. There’s a great thread started by @Mike_Hennigan you can read here The Great DE Thread. I highly recommend it if you’re not familiar. As for placement. The tree gets about 2 maybe 3 hours of broken sunlight in the very wee hours of the morning. I’d say from 6am to between 8-9am. Theres some over hanging trees that break that up in the later part of sunlight but I think it’s just enough. I’m fairly certain I want to stunt transpiration to develop roots. So I figured this very early, broken sunlight would be just enough to give the tree some time to photosynthesise without losing too much water through out the day. The tap root got chopped a lot shorter than I would have done if I was doing this alone, and there was a very small amount of feeder roots, so it’s really touch and go. To be honest, I don’t have my hopes high. But it’s worth the effort to try! Thanks again for your input. I appreciate you taking the time to help out.
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