Join Date: Apr-2004
Location: Clinton Township, MI
Country: USA
Posts: 4,227
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Contest Entry Foiled - Emergency Repot Instead
Thought I hit a good bargin when I purchased this Scots Pine for 42.50 (85.00 and a 50% off card).
It had it's lower trunk and root ball encased in burlap and the bag was sitting in a 5 gallon plastic nursery pot. I took this home removed the burlap wrapped root ball from the plastc pot in order to take a couple pictures for my entry. That's when I noticed that the root ball was extremly hard packed, like a bowling ball. Being curious I carefully unwrapped the burlap and found a very dry, packed soil ball with absolutely no roots showing at all. I quickly decided that this tree needed attention other than a contest.
I soaked the soil ball in a bucket of water for an hour then hosed off most of the soil, finding very few roots, maybe 1 or two white tips. I repotted into the pond bucket showen here and decided to just let it be, untouched for a year.
Oh well, time to take some pictures of that barberry I bought last week for the contest.
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