Receiving Trees: Bareroot vs. Potted
Receiving Bareroot Trees
Bareroot trees are sometimes delivered in fruit bins with Cedar tow or sawdust.
They are also delivered bare on pallets or in large fully enclosed bins.
How Bareroot Trees are Delivered
- Bareroot laying down on large pallets
- Fully enclosed large bins with sawdust or cedar toe
- Standing upright in a standard apple bin with sawdust to protect the roots from wind and drying out
The method used will be based on:
- Efficiency
- Cost-effectiveness, especially for large quantities of pallets
- Needed longer-term storage
Water needs:
All of these methods require water to some degree to keep the trees viable and ready to grow once planted. Please apply water upon delivery and once they have entered storage.
Receiving Potted Trees
JET trees being delivered on a flatbed truck in custom racks.
Once delivered, the racks need to be unloaded and returned to the truck.
How Potted Trees are Delivered
Dormant Potted Trees
- Via a roll side trailer
While it is handy to have access to a forklift to remove the house-built racks of trees, it can also be done by hand with a small crew.
These are best transplanted into empty fruit (apple or cherry) bins for easy transportation to cold storage or watering stations.
Water needs:
Please water down completely upon arrival and get them into cold storage making sure you can access them with water once or twice a week or as needed.
RECEIVING POTTED TREES
JET trees being unloaded from custom racks onsite.
It is helpful to have a small crew, a forklift, and empty fruit bins to load the trees into for easy farm transpiration.
Green Growing Potted Trees
These need to be handled very delicately, especially if they are the very young (3-month-old) Quick Starts or Smart Plants. If handled by the stems they will pull out at the graft or break off lower making them unusable.
Please handle them by the bags they arrive in and/or by the bottom of the Ellepot themselves.
