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I agree and read about that, happens often during transplanting and I'm concerned about that as picked up the first one with strap around trunk....stripped the bark and had to put goop over that. Also opened up the wire and burlap on a few of them which let the dirtball come apart exposing the roots, pretty sure I shocked them. Bought some 10-10-10 fertilizer for them yesterday, hoping that helps them pull through.
This happened to ours YEARS after they were planted. They started getting small brown spots. I thought they were little bugs at first. We treated them and everything. Had the Ace Hardware come out and help where I bought them. Nothing helped. They were brown and DEAD MEAT in two weeks. They were both about 40 feet tall and around 15 feet wide. I'm lookin at Spartan Junipers now, but trees are expensive.