What is a bare root tree or plant?

Answer 1

Trees and shrubs typically come in one of three forms:

Container
Bare Root
Balled and burlapped (B&B)

Container plants are typically grown in a plastic container or wooden box and the container size is increased as the plant gets larger. Because they are grown in a container or pot, they can sometimes be rootbound. Container plants are more expensive than the bare root ones.

Some trees and shrubs come as what they call bare root. They are dug up in the fall after they have gone dormant, the soil is removed, and they are placed with their roots in a moist bed of wood chips, peat moss, or saw dust for shipping. There is no soil present on the plants roots, so it needs to be placed into the ground before it comes out of dormancy. Fruit trees often come this way. Bare root plants are generally the cheapest price of all three.

Many larger trees and shrubs are often sold B&B. The plant is removed directly from the ground where it is grown with a large portion of soil around the roots and the rootball is then wrapped in burlap and often a wire mesh is used to hold it all together. Because the B&B plants are usually larger than the container or bare root plants, they tend to be the most expensive, but well worth it.

Answer 2

Bare root trees and shrubs are the stock that nurseries have grown in the field and are now harvested to be sold during dormancy or potted if not sold. It is the most economical way to purchace plants at a nursery. They come with no soil around the root system and need to be planted right after purchasing for best results.

Answer 3

bare root is a tree or plant that has been taken out of the ground and graded to be shipped out to someone most people that buy like 1 or 2 plants they will arrive in a peat ball bare root has to be kept wet to keep the roots from drying out other wise it will kill the tree 20 years in the nursery business in tennessee

Answer 4

They are correct-the plant is, when mailed, packed with sawdust or shavings soaking wet & wrapped in plastic. There are plants at local nurseries where they are bareroot in sand-grapes, citrus trees, deciduous trees in general, for sale. I bought my seedless purple grapes bareroot in January that way, nurseries often hold "tasting events" of the citrus fruit trees they sell to help people decide which kind they want. The time when bareroot plants are available depends on when your deciduous plants spring awake.

Answer 5

The plant is sent to you without soil. Usually packaged in saw dust or peat moss. It is dampend so that the roots dont dry out. Plant them as soon as you get them provided that frost is no longer a concern in your area.

Answer 6

it's a tree or plant that has the roots packed in wet sawdust rather than in dirt or potting mix. the roots are literally barren of dirt. They need to be removed from the sawdust and placed in dirt or planting mix to thrive.