Yes but cutting a root bound tree which has been root pruned before is not the same as cutting the roots of one which hasn't!Webos wrote:G’day Brewster,
I’m apprenticing in a nursery in Japan and we come across super potbound stuff quite often. Whether potbound or not, we use a sickle shaped mini saw to cut around the entire inner edge of the pot. This area of the football will
Always be taken away during repotting anyway so it doesn’t matter what you cut through when doing this. Cutting through concrete footballs is really hard work, many blisters, but ya just part of the job.
Adam
Species id: on a super root bound a conifer?? of some kind.?
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Re: Species id: on a super root bound a conifer?? of some kind.?
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Re: Species id: on a super root bound a conifer?? of some kind.?
Brewster, Would you consider layering some of the upper parts off instead - or as well? They are much more likely to succeed and you need not disturb the tree at all that way. Not to mention they are more interesting than the lower part.
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Re: Species id: on a super root bound a conifer?? of some kind.?
I’ve just re-read my message... footballs?!!!!
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Re: Species id: on a super root bound a conifer?? of some kind.?
Update...
It's still hanging in there..
Some brown tips on the very end ..
Which i believe is normal for this species in winter..
Waiting for the southern spring to kick in ..
To see it start to get that green flush..
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It's still hanging in there..
Some brown tips on the very end ..
Which i believe is normal for this species in winter..
Waiting for the southern spring to kick in ..
To see it start to get that green flush..
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Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in..??