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bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman
Join Date: Apr-2005
Location: The Hague
Country: Netherlands
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Originally Posted by bonsaikc
And are you speaking mostly about conifers? Stefan was posting a deciduous tree, which will be handled differently. Many deciduous trees can be bare-rooted and root pruned right out of the nursery container, as I am sure you know.
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To clarify, the tree in the picture of my first post in this thread was the Japanese Maple from this thread on root rot. I wouldn't do this to a tree that has some value to me without being very certain the tree could take it and there is a good reason for doing it at all.
Stefan
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