AusBonsai

Found a buxus japonica at a nursery on clearance for 3 bucks the other week. It was going to get thown out because they thoight it was dying.
It just went bronze from being in the cold wind. Its been a week indoors in my hot sun room and its already starting to green up!
Ps its my first bonai project!

Sounds wierd, Saving from a nursery they are supposed to grow them but hey good score

Ken

Im guessing it may have been that it had been there so long and not sold. When i repotted it there was only about 15%soil in the pot the rest was just roots. I shoulda taken some pics!
But i fear i may have taken too much of the roots off. I took about 60 70 percent off. Time will tell!

60-70% root reduction does not sound harsh to me. I would fully expect it to come back strongly. I regularly take 90% or more roots off some species and well over half off nearly every tree I repot.

shibui wrote:60-70% root reduction does not sound harsh to me. I would fully expect it to come back strongly.

Cool beans! I'll post an update soooon!

Agreed, I remove two thirds of the roots of most plants too. You will not see much happening over winter. You just have to wait for it to recover.
Cheers
Kirky

My plan is to leave it till late next year and in the mean time stare at it and decide how i want it to look.
It did have a few branches quite low on the trunk that i removed and the rootbase already looks pretty nice.
Absolutely love the bark on this tree!

Theres a picture of each side of it

Hi Fezz. Do you plan to plant the colander? Maybe cover more mix over the roots also and wire the young shoots

I'll get onto the soil and wire tomorrow morning!

And im just using the colander at the moment because it makes a cheap pot with good drainage at 1 dollar 50! And i don't own any bonsai pots yet. Im just starting to collect some neat looking trees and letting them grow while i find some pots i like.