Please help me save this baby tree's life

>>1033479
trim it back if you want to save it the few roots it does have aren't going to be able to support all those leaves.

>>1033573
Thanks. Also, bump.

Kill it with fire.

>>1033479
Honestly, if you had to remove 95% of the roots then your best bet will be to take cuttings and try to start the tree off again.

Cut off the tips, make them roughly 9 inches long. Trim off 70% of the leaves starting from the cut site, going up. If you have seaweed fertilizer then dip the cut ends in that and then dip them in honey. If not, just dip/coat them in honey (To a little less than the height of your pot).

Put potting/seed raising mix in a pot, poke a hole in it with a screwdriver/pencil and wiggle it to open it up some. Place the cutting down into the hole and gently tamp the soil down around the cutting.

Water it in. If you missed out on the seaweed fertilizer, then get some next time you're in town. Or some rooting hormone. The soil needs to stay damp until the cuttings strike.

As a bonus, if you cut off heaps of tips for cuttings then that header trunk might survive. Not likely though. Things already drooping pretty hard.

Root hormone powder, ask the garden center, dip the whole root ball in it and also sprinkle in the hole you intend to plant it in. It'll grow the roots back very quickly.