New preparation method for spruce

I think I have showed photos of this spruce in earlier posts. It is still not collected and I have prepared in in situ form 2007. This year i have started a new way of preparing this kind of material for collection. (big old and weak spruces like this is very difficult to collect sucsessfully)As you can see from the pics I have put large amounts of spagnum moss around the trunk. The spruce grows in relatively dry and very nutrient poor peat soil and that causes the roots to run several meters away from the trunk in search of nutrients so if I dig it up, even if i get an enormous rootball, there will be very few feeder roots in it and small chanses of survival for the tree. I have been fertilizing it every year and now I have also put the spagnum moss around it. the hope it that the increased moisture content due to the thick layer of spagnum moss will help the development of new roots close to the trunk. And spagnum moss is also known to be a very good rooting medium, low branches that come in contact with it tend to put out new roots easily. I have seen this many times in the mountains. I have done this with a few very nice spruces this year and have high hopes for this new technique.