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"Note, if it is growing in dirt as opposed to a mucky swamp, you will want to dig it out of the ground."

Not necessarily. If the tree is sawed out with only a little (or sometime no) feeder roots, keeping it in wet conditions will force them pretty soon. They're pretty vigorous growers and if you get a pretty healthy one, almost indestructible. I got my brother in Texas to buy a four inch diameter 10 foot tall BC at a roadside nursery that I could turn into a bonsai. Being that I live in Va., shipping the whole thing would have been problematic. I told him to saw the trunk down to two feet above the roots, and air mail me that part. He is pretty much a cheap skate, so he plunked the severed upper portion in a bucket of water in his backyard not wanting to waste the other 3/4 of the tree (that cost all of $25) The thing pushed new roots in a month. It is happily growing in the ground in his backyard now.

Eminart, the tree in the photo is of a BC. Note the buttress on the trunk --the ridges--are a dead giveaway for BC.

5-Dec-2007	#23
rockm bonsaiTALK ArchMaster Join Date: Oct-2003 Location: Fairfax, Va Country: USA USDA Zone: 7 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 4,561	"Note, if it is growing in dirt as opposed to a mucky swamp, you will want to dig it out of the ground." Not necessarily. If the tree is sawed out with only a little (or sometime no) feeder roots, keeping it in wet conditions will force them pretty soon. They're pretty vigorous growers and if you get a pretty healthy one, almost indestructible. I got my brother in Texas to buy a four inch diameter 10 foot tall BC at a roadside nursery that I could turn into a bonsai. Being that I live in Va., shipping the whole thing would have been problematic. I told him to saw the trunk down to two feet above the roots, and air mail me that part. He is pretty much a cheap skate, so he plunked the severed upper portion in a bucket of water in his backyard not wanting to waste the other 3/4 of the tree (that cost all of $25) The thing pushed new roots in a month. It is happily growing in the ground in his backyard now. Eminart, the tree in the photo is of a BC. Note the buttress on the trunk --the ridges--are a dead giveaway for BC.