Thread: Root Pruning Part Two
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Old 14-Aug-2005   #11
Vance Wood
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Originally Posted by node
I've used a showerhead with the spray set to massage to clean a root system or two and I must say it really works very well. A bit messy maybe, but you don't damage the roots, and the water gets into every nook and cranny.

Also nothing beats a well cleaned rootsystem to check for rootrot.

Stefan

For the method I descirbe in the article I use the jet spray, it is more surgical in that it removes only whay I intend it to remove. In the case of Pines it is better that you do not bare root them that's why I wait till I have some new roots in new soil before I go after the core of old soil and bound up roots. A side note. I have found using my planter design that it stimulates a good deal of microrhiza growth.
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