I grew Garcinia warrenii from Nth Qld. It had a huge carrot like taproot and didn't seem to like root disturbance much.
How about other Garcinia species, any care needed with transplanting ??
The lemondrop, brasiliensis, and seashore leaves all suffered from transplanting much more than achacha, cuban, luc, and imbe, but nothing bad at all.
The imbe pushed new leaves like 2 days after transplant, it doesn't seem to care. Achacha stalled for a ~week, cuban and luc stalled for 4-6 weeks but no foliage damage.
Minor leaf shock symptoms appeared on the thin and fragile rooted ones only, I bet a garcinia with a similar growth pattern to lemondrop would develop the leaf damage too.
Your warrenii sounds like the luc and cubans, ridiculously thick taproots. I bet it'd react like lucs; freezes for a while but gave me no trouble.
I think I could go further and generalize them in 3 groups:
- thin and fragile roots (lemondrop, brasiliensis, seashore)
- thin and tough roots (achacha, imbe)
- thick and tough roots (lucs, cuban)
With somewhat similar growth patterns contained in each group. Anyone else notice/confirm these patterns?
Which also I think is weird, because looking at achacha and imbe you wouldn't really compare them, especially considering how unique both species leaves are for garcinias, but after watching them for a while I can't help but notice how related they act. Or maybe this is a classic case of sample bias