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Professional Amateur
Join Date: Feb-2005
Location: Arkansas
Country: USA
Posts: 2,619
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Actually we have a tremendous amount of wind (we are out in the open country without trees, or urban yard fences at the farm). Use chopsticks, wood blocks, appropriately sized wire and proper technique and you won't have any problems. here is a picture of one of the small junipers we repotted this year. it is held in place with wood blocks (2x4's cut to size), number 8 copper wire and 4 chopsticks. Oh, and this tree had no rootball, it has fine loose roots and we removed all of the mountain soil and old turface and other junk it had been potted into previously.
If you can't prevent your trees from movin in the wind, how can you move them to work on them at all? See Chris' (BonsaiKC) article on repotting an established bonsai here at BT to see how to make a 4 wire basket that should work for most previously potted trees.
Cheers,
John
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