Thought I would post a couple of images of my Trident Maple in broom style. It was extremely root bount, to the stage where I could barely even tease the rrots out so I bought out the saw. I ended up chopping off about 1/3 of the roots cleaned up the surface and teased out as many remaining roots as possible. After a repot and a good long soak in Seasol its hopefully should be sweet.
I really need to encourage some additional surface roots growth to produce a better Nebari. I have made a few scratches into the cambium layer just under the soil surface and treated with hormone powder. I'm hoping this migh promote some additional roots that I can use? Has anyone had any success in doing this at all?
Anyway I gave it a slight trim and a re-wire, hopefully it will start producing a nice tree. The framework is there but still needs a lot of work and refining.
Cheers All
If it's a mess at the top of a stick---we'll call it broom. If it's a long skinny thing with no branches -- we'll that literati. If it won't fit into any other style -- Hey: we'll call it an informal upright. 
