How To: Transplant Seedling or Sapling | Quick & Easy Tips 

Here is the BEST thing to do. Find a tree nursery that is well established and sells unique hard to find trees. Go to the woods next to the property it will have TONS of invasive tree saplings from the nursery tree seeds being moved by animals or wind. I got a 5ft japanese maple that looks like a banzai because the sun couldnt reqch the plant so it grew in crazy to make its way up to get the most lite. I looked at a tree that was the same size at the nursery and it cost 499. I got mine free. It did however take quite a while to dig up thr tree. Since it was quite a few years old the rroots were pretty deep. About a half hour of careful digging and a disgarded bucket from the nurcery and i got a great tree. Going back to see if i can find a dawn redwood as they have a huge growing in the woods.

Awesome video, had a small oak seedling too close to my house and had a perfect spot to move it to, but didn't want to kill it. Thank you so much

I will try today I have like 40 tree baby's in the back yard. Thank you for your knowledge 🙏

why doesn't this video have more views? great quality!

Thanks for the video! I have a live oak sappling that decided to spring up in a really bad place. Going to try and transplant it this fall.

This is so helpful, thank you for sharing the info!

Absolutely positively great video!!!

Thank you for your time

Great advice. Thanks!

Fantastic video, been browsing this topic for a while now, this was the best demonstration. Gonna use your method for my future trees! Thanks

Gonna be hard to dig up the concrete around a sapling, or whatever you call a tree that's close to 3ft. It's growing between my garage, and patio slab. My thoughts are heavily water what little bit of soil is present, and try to gently pull the tree up.

wonderful little video

Excellent advice...will be transplanting Mountain Ash seedlings next month...September.

great video thank you!

Good job.

thank you am watching a oak sapling that am planing on moving in a few months

Maranatha!

This is a great video. I was wondering though if you had any videos/advice on how to make sure the little tree sappling you found gets big enough to transplant. Or just what i should look up to get going. Most things i have found so far are just on how to care for large sapplings. I found a tiny shoot in my yard that im pretty sure is an eastern redbud and i would really like to make sure it stays alive till the fall so i can transplant it. Its in the corner of my yard right up against my house so ill have to move it eventually anyways. I tend to spray hose water in that area to keep the "weeds" watered. My first instinct is to just keep doing what im doing but is there any added measures i should take like maybe putting something around it to keep animals away?

Hey thanks, man. I have an elm sapling growing right in my lily bed 😱😱😱 Now its going in the backyard property line 👌

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oak tree seedlings are very fragile and dont like to be transplanted. i have a bunch growing in a pot, im dreading trying to separate them from each other in the spring, hope i dont kill them

Good soil!

I want to plant about an acre of hardwoods, around 600 trees. I have been considering buying bare root seedling as well as transplating seedlings and have been wondering how to effectively do it. I could see doing a few hundred this way provided I can find enough of them.

That “blue spruce” looks like a Juniper

I always have lots of plum seedlings when plums that fallen from trees germinated. I wait till fall to transplant them but they don't make it to the fall because of heat of summer. Can I transplant them as soon as they start emerging from soil in late spring/early summer?

Great information. Do you use any type of tree food the first few weeks after the transplanting? If so, what do you use?

I'm in Indiana. Can I dig up that 3 ft seedling growing right next to the house in winter (it's January now) if the ground is not frozen? I assume yes...I believe you are farther North (MI), may not be possible there.

I have a red maple growing up near my foundation. It is about 6 feet all. Is it too late to transplant?

will my tress grow if i did this?

Id use cardboard instead of fabric and put 3 inches of wood chip on top.

Mine are all sitting underneath a spruce tree so this will be difficult.