Moving a mature cumquat (forum)

syb starts with ...
This cumquat is 3 mt plus tall, in full fruit, I need to save it from a house demolition.
Can I prune any height off? Can I prune any from round the tree? And not affect its health? Will be using a bob cat to dig up.....as best we can, is the drip line adequate distance for most roots?
Any advice please. Thank you

Time: 14th May 2016 12:43am

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Brain says...
I don't have any experiences in moving one off the ground but I know you can prune it quite hard, i.e. leave a leader and a few limbs. The only catch is, it will take at least a year to recover and maybe 2 to see fruit.

I've had a nagami that died back to the main trunk but with a bit of worm juice, recovered.

Time: 16th May 2016 5:49pm

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syb says...
Thank you for this, makes me feel more confident.
I am driving into the town today to prune it.
A Beautiful, robust, tall, healthy 70 year old Norfolk Pine was.....'killed' yesterday in the backyard, I could not stay to do the cumquat.....was upsetting to see/hear the tree being destroyed.
Cheers

Time: 17th May 2016 9:40am

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Julie says...
This has been covered before.

https://www.daleysfruit.com.au/forum/transplanting-older-citrus-trees/

Time: 17th May 2016 11:41am

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