Progress on a tree I transplanted one year ago in the middle of summer. It seems it overwintered quite well, even though first half of winter was cold and snowless and the second one was extremely cold and so snowy that many trees got bent permanently.

So today I transplanted the whole bunch of it's same-age saplings in a similar way. This looks quite unconventional, but there is sure higher survival rate for spruces when they are transplanted this way in my region.