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Originally Posted by rockm
Whenever I come across a tree like this that has been marked down, I always ask (If I have enough money and am considering buying it) WHY it's marked down. The steeper the markdown, the more urgent the question becomes. Did the seller volunteer the info? That might have some bearing on what you can and can't do with it.
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That's solved very quickly, immediately for a trained eye.
It will be extremely difficult to ever get this tree in a decent position into a decent pot. Why do you think the person who has planted it has placed the trunk to the very edge of that box. And why is there such a lot of room to the right? This is where all the roots are and this is where they will stay normally. The rtoots are several centuries old just like the trunk and thick branches. They will NOT bend, they will break.
Befor ANY stling of the top the question has to be solved of how to ever get the tree into a decent pot.
The solutions:
1) Air layer the roots. It is done like every normal airlayering. Girdle the roots close to the trunk and bury them again. You might loose a root or two that way thogh. It will take a few years.
2) Just break a couple of roots at a spot where they will posibly survive. I do the same with branches of RMJ that stick up into the iar. I just break them down and hope for their survival. Many actually do survive. The rest is kept for insurance and will be cut off when the 'bending' was sucessful.
All these procedures are really for professionals.