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Join Date: Dec-2003
Location: Glen Rock, PA.
Country: USA
Posts: 675
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Tom: You've suggested that I take the root ball, as is, soil more or less intact and place the tree into a larger, fast draining pot with larger grained drainage grit lining the bottom and surrounding the existing roots and soil. Is that correct?
Do you still recommend teasing the roots apart slightly, and lightly fertilizing with 0-10-10 in light of this pseudo-re-potting?
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Correct take the root ball intact and slip it in a slightly larger pot with a well draining soil. As far as teasing the root ball? Why test fate...I'd leave it be spring will be here soon enough. I would still try and give the 0-10-10. Any uptake of phosphorus (essential for healthy growth, strong roots, fruit and flower development, and greater resistance to disease) and potassium (also essential for the development of strong plants. It helps plants to resist diseases, protects them from the cold and protects during dry weather by preventing excessive water loss)
I don't know how much longer you have till dormancy sets in up your way. So your results of this feeding may not be realized. No harm in trying though.
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Don't flay yourself mentally when you make a mistake or when something bad happens. Just pick yourself up from the god-awful mess you’ve made, say to yourself "I must make a note not to do that again." and go on to the next step, of the hundred or so that remain.
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