Gotta know what it is or you're wasting your time. Could be a weed. I've had nuisance plants start in pots and pose as purty things for a bit before they showed their true nature. GRRR (see bottom for a similar post and a good alternative) If it is an African Sumac, here's some info: African sumac trees were considered desirable in Areizona some time ago but now are not. They are attractive in park settings where they are heavily maintained (yes that means work) BUT - They generate tremendous amounts of pollen and are non friend to people with allergies. They are weedy in your yard, weedy in your neighbors' yards and now are even found growing in far off riparian areas, yup there is concern that they are joining tamarisk in colonizing desert streams and crowding out Arizona native plants. In your yard this means that behind and within every bush and potted plant there will be an Af. sumac seedling trying to take over. And it's hard to pull out this deep rooted plant, when you manage to, roots of other plants may be damaged. Not fun at all. I had one that I had to take out at great expense. It actually created more shade in the winter than the summer, covered the yard with leaves and flowers all year long smothering other plants and limiting what I could grow due to that. African sumacs strive to achieve enormous canopies. Seemed the one in my yard was heading toward 60 feet wide or so. Way too big for most yards. This means lots of pruning. The best shade tree I've planted is honey mesquite. And the shade is cooler under a mesquite than an african sumac because it is not quite so dense, allowing warm air to rise above the canopy of leaves allowing the occupant to enjoy being sheltered from the sunlight without sweltering from stored heat from same sun. (got a different sun?) Here is a post on same from the past that echoes my experience with this tree: Posted by sonic1 (My Page) on Mon, Jan 10, 05 at 1:20 The African sumac (Rhus lancea) is a pretty tree, at a distance. But it is terribly messy and weedy. It will freely seed itself wherever there is water, including in all your potted plants. This may seem harmless, but when you pull your 8 millionth plant out of the garden or a pot or whatever you are ready to chop the darn thing down! You mentioned the Texas honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa). This is a highly recommended tree. It will seed occasionally but nothing like the african sumac. And I think it is even more beautiful. But it is deciduous. BTW how big do you want to get? What other needs do you have for this tree? I'll give you good reccomendations. Here is a link that might be useful:

Hi, Konfuzed....I can't use GardenWeb to reply to your email because you haven't enabled the email settings in your profile, so I'll have to post here. Another person has expressed an interest in the lime tree, with a target pickup of next week. Let me wait to hear from him/her as to the probability of that happening, and I'll get back to you. Meanwhile, if you'd send me your email address, that would make things easier :) Alison

I find when I plant small bare root trees, the original soil often DOESN'T fill the holes. When I plant a tree I often have to remove a couple big rocks, and the top couple inches may be a dense mat of grass/sod. ==>>> i always took soil from the veg garden ... to back fill holes... throwing the sod in a compost heap.. that would break down the clumps by fall.. to replenish the veg garden ... or i just had a hole out behind the garage ... the thought that no where on your property.. could you steal some soil to properly fill a hole.. is NOT THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX ... come on peeps ... aeron.. no your trees are not dead.. and there is no reason you can replant them soon ... you make it sound that now that its done.. you cant call a REDO ... fix em dude.. no excuses .. ken

Re potting mixes: https://www.ourfigs.com/forum/figs-home/11847-successful-potting-mix-recipes Re best container to use: https://www.ourfigs.com/forum/figs-home/924-best-size-container I have my figs in 5 gallon buckets and in this mix: 5-1-1-1: 62.5% - 12.5% - 12.5% -12.5% (pine bark - peat - perlite - calcined clay). The buckets have 3/4 inch holes drilled on the sides near the bottom. I bury the buckets in about 9 inches of mulch and the roots come out of the holes into the mulch and into the ground. This lessens the amount of watering that I have to do because they get their water from the ground. In the fall, I use a spade to cut the roots and bring the trees into winter storage. You are more likely to find answers to your fig questions on ourfigs.com than on this forum.