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And here's the work and results. This tree turned out to have a better nebari than I had anticipated. Ume don't necessarily always have a nebari to speak of, so this was a nice surprise. At the bottom of the trunk base was a large knob that had been reduced in the past. It now had little feeder root on it, and there are good roots all around the perimiter, so I reduced it some more.

I had used a combination of combing out the roots with angled tweezers, and using a water jet from the hose. I removed every bit of the old soil, arranged the roots so they all pointed at the edge, with none crossing, etc. I removed a couple of older nearly dead roots, and one that was just too high on the base because the tree had been buried so deeply.

Then I potted it up in a Korean pot.

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