This spring, I repotted it into a tokanome pot which I had bought at the symposium auction.
I did my best to reproduce the potting angle and position suggested by Suzuki, but was limited somewhat by the existing root structure. Since this tree had been collected in June of '03, I minimized the root work.
There will be time for that later.
This photo was taken this afternoon, about a month after the repot.
While I had planned to simply keep the tree in good health until I could work with Suzuki again, several branches on the right hand side bothered me.
When I saw a photo of a similar tree at
Epcot 2004 I realized that my tree was going "all over the place" and needed some hard thinking.