rockm

"Do you believe that planting a tree in a pot slightly larger each time you repot will allow the tree to grow just a strong as if it were in the ground? Please back up your opinions."

Um, planting in a container restricts root run of the tree--simple physical fact. The less room the roots have, the less they will grow. The less they grow, the less the top of the tree grows. Simple fact, not opinion. The ground offers almsot limitless room for roots. Ever larger pots do not. Pots are not the ground, never will be, can't be.


"So unless it's been done for many years,like decades,or more,as with a collected tree,planting in the ground usually does not make too much of a diffrerence."

Bull...Ever planted a tree out to allow it to develop for bonsai stock? In-ground growing accelerate development of the trunks of trees exponentially compared to ANY container. There is a HUGE difference in using container only growing and the ground to develop nebari and trunks. Three to five years in ground will advance a tree ten to twenty times what growing in a container can do, depending on species...

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