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Bonsai Doer
Join Date: Aug-2001
Location: Fresno, CA
Country: USA
Posts: 5,540
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With all the branches removed and the top looking pretty good I decided to go ahead and move the tree to a better container with better room to work on the nebari. Normaly I would not do this to a tree like this but since removeing all the branches I in essence turned back the clock on this tree about 60 days and decided to bare root it in April. Still safe due to cooler weather now.
All the roots were cut back hard, the roots had encircled the pot about 5 times. It was a solid mass 1 inch thick. There was only soil about 1/4 thick at the top of the roots on the surface!
Here you go, what I worked so hard for three years. Suface nebari. I still had some crossing roots that had to be dealt with and a few that emerged two high on the trunk. I just snipped these off with no ill effect to the tree. There is a lot of roots here that had to go since I only have one small leader to grow with. These raw cut roots that are pencil size will grow new root hairs fast with the emergence of all the budding the tree will do.
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