GMTA..LOL..we both thought of it..Body bag roses aren't known to be the best to get started..so I thought hmmm...I know what alfalfa Tea does...So maybe I can give this one a better chance...Roses need to be soaked for at least 12-24 hours and can stay days in water prior to planting ..rehydrating is essential for bareroots and most people lose them because they don't rehydrate well enough before planting....I would never put the pellets in the planting hole as I have heard people say they got root burn and killed their plant...I put Alfalfa Tea on all my Fruit trees...they love it...jeanne

Soaking garlic in a vinegar / seaweed / baking soda bath followed by an alcohol soak has been known to decrease the chance of fungus and mites infesting garlic plants.

Well, using overstatements is one way to try to persuade others to follow your particular view, but it does leave you open to being dismissed outright. Gardengal48, congratulations on your success growing fruiting plants. May that continue to get better and better for you. But....12 hours soaking in water has yet to kill any of the many, many plants that I have been soaking in nutrient-rich water prior to planting or repotting. My goal was not just to get the roots soaking wet, because that would get done pretty quickly. Instead, I want the whole plant to get fueled up with the nutrients from head to toe. Some get soaked only a few hours, and some didn't get pulled out to plant until 3 or (gasp!) 4 days later when I got to it. They have been coming out of the container with thickened happy roots. No rotting. No stench. No withering away. A guy donated a bucket full of 4 ft tall pomegranate suckers clipped in Winter, and I babysat them for more than a month for another guy who would in early Spring cut them to length, dip one end in Dip-N-Grow, and plant the cuttings to get them to root both in pots and in his field. With no room to refrigerate those, I just put some beneficial nutrients in a few inches of water in that 5 gallon paint pail packed with pom suckers and parked it in indirect light. Well, they not only survived the long term dunking, they eventually started to leaf out on top with healthy new leaves and shoots. When the Winter cold became less of a threat, the other guy picked up the pail of healthy suckers, clipped off the bottom few inches that got waterlogged ,clipped off the leafed out top,, and used the remainder of the suckers for rooting. If a "desert" plant like a pomegranate could make it so well while standing in this 'ankle-deep' water, then I would say that I will do the same exact thing next time this pom situation comes up. I won't buy a tall fridge to put them in. Remember the grade school experiment putting a stalk of celery in a glass filled with water that had been dyed with red food coloring, and the stalk gradually wicked up the red water towards the stalk top. Well, I want many of my plants to wick up lots of fertilized fluid all the way up prior to planting/repotting. I sure would not soak succulents like cacti in water like that, or magnolia trees, but it is a non-issue for many fruiting plants. Otherwise, the first time that rainy weather keeps fruit tree roots soggy wet in 100% soggy mud, they would die from what you described as the roots being deprived of oxygen for 12-48 hours. Sometimes soggy, muddy, rainy weather lasts for much longer than that, and somehow the fruit trees don't croak. Maybe you could rephrase the time period to fit the field evidence. No offense intended, Thank you for sharing from your experience. Don't stop.

Good question! Since it was an afterthought, it looks like I never recorded planting location or name. I would have the tag in the garage, though. I remember it was a bi-color: not usually what I go for, but it was SO eager to grow…. I don’t know which of 2 places I put it. Yesterday I saw a rhizome held down with a landscape staple - a sign that I planted it bare root less than a year ago - sprouting small fans in a couple of directions, but some distance from the root, like 3 inches. There is one other place I might have put it: I’ll check tomorrow.