red oak didnt grow right

Joey Meister

Hi i orderd some trees from a catalog this spring they included, white birch, red oak, and dawn redwood, all three arived healthy nice plump buds and healthy roots i planted each to the right depth, mulched and watered, the birtch and redwood took right off and have grown a foot tall and spread out nicely but the oak took a month just to bud out and then only grew small leaves, i can get a replacement, it might have had something to do with the leader being removed on it when it arrived

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