bonsainotwar

I have not read the aforementioned article on rootballs,but I have learned my lesson,and will never buy another rootbound evergreen again.Deciduous trees are one thing.Once they go dormant,you can play with the roots all you want.You can bang 'em on the ground,you can completely comb out the roots,and nine times put of ten,the plants will come out of dormancy with no problem,but rootbound evergreens are nothing but problems.I killed three so far this year.

Two,a live oak,and a tangerine,I worked on in the last week of February.I don't know if it is standard pactice or not,but I was able to bare root both of these trees,completely without undoing the roots.The rootballs were about nine ot ten inches tall I cut about two inches off the top and bottom of each rootball,and did nothing to else them.Both went into shock and died.