The theory behind cutting the root ball then back filling and encouraging root regeneration into the back filled trench (a trench that does not go all the way round the circumference but has sections still uncut) is to encourage as much new root generation as possible...these very very fine roots you must protect throughout the move.....explains the care taken wrapping the root ball and keeping it moist the whole time...so when the tree is lifted and replanted it already has hundreds (hopefully thousands) of new root hairs with which to begin reestablishing the required root mass and volume as quickly as possible.
The less stress we produce in an extremely stressful process the better.
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We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran
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