JimC

I bought 5 dawn redwood trees for a projected group planting. They are about one half to one inch caliper. They were in one and two gallon pots for two years now at a local nursery. Local being long island new york, nice zone 6 mid spring weather here now. When I purchased these trees I described my intentions and asked weather this was ok to do at this time of year for this species. In other words, heavy pruning above and even more below. I am not familiar with thier habits and needs. At the time they were pretty well initially leafed out. the sellers answer was very ambigious and in my opinion not very reliable because I believe her motivation to make the sale trumps my risk of failure do to out of season work on these trees. I bought them anyway but decided to grow them on a little while longer. However, I figured I would take my chances with repotting them. Once begun I ended up heavily root pruning, topping and then repotted. Alas, after 3 days they do not look very happy. the leaves are droopy and the bright green has picked up a light red/brown tinge.
Any ideas regarding prognosis? Did I really do them wrong by treating them this way at this time? Any way to help them recover?
Thanks in advance, Jim C.