Recently dug Euonymus Europea

[DirkvanDreven]

A couple of weeks I dug this Euonymus from my garden. It seems to be doing well, it's budding normally.
After being able to study it for a while I see to where I want to cut it back. In the fork in there is a dead stump that I want to get rid of.
If it were a Pine I wouldn't consider any pruning so soon after digging up. But it's not Pine and it doesn'the seem to be bothered by being dug and reducing of roots.
Anybody an idea?

 

[just.wing.it]

My only experience with Burning Bush is one that I dug up in 2016, just small one that has been trunk chopped my the lawn mower a few times. It grew from seed at the edge of my old yard.
It didnt skip a beat that year.
Then in 2017, the growth was anemic, but it produced a bunch of buds, even at the apex of the tree.
Then in 2018, it didn't grow at all......all year, just sat dormant with all those 2017 buds looking healthy.

This year, it leafed out in the middle of winter, but only a few leaves....the leaves hung on all winter, then it resumed growing this spring.

Maybe the weirdest tree I have, simply due to that little story....now its show I g chlorosis like yellowness on the leaves and I've been trying acidic fert and Epsom salt.

Yours is much larger than mine, but I guess what I'm saying is, it may be best to take it slow.

 

[0soyoung]

My thoughts, @DirkvanDreven are since you weren't paying attention and didn't remove this dead branch when you were potting it, you should sit in the corner and think about your haste and poor planning

But in a less overbearing meme, I think about rooting hardwood cuttings. Buds alone don't mean it has roots. Buds opening doesn't mean it has roots. The newly emerged foliage from them remaining turgid means there are some roots.

At this point, all that jiggling from sawing might damage the roots. Less damage would occur if it was out of the pot and most of the substrate washed/soaked off. So, I suggest you do this, make you cuts, and repot it. Otherwise, just put some paint on what you are going to remove sometime in August.

 

[DirkvanDreven]

My thoughts, @DirkvanDreven are since you weren't paying attention and didn't remove this dead branch when you were potting it, you should sit in the corner and think about your haste and poor planning

But in a less overbearing meme, I think about rooting hardwood cuttings. Buds alone don't mean it has roots. Buds opening doesn't mean it has roots. The newly emerged foliage from them remaining turgid means there are some roots.

At this point, all that jiggling from sawing might damage the roots. Less damage would occur if it was out of the pot and most of the substrate washed/soaked off. So, I suggest you do this, make you cuts, and repot it. Otherwise, just put some paint on what you are going to remove sometime in August.

Sounds logical. Thanks