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Chopped Liver?
Join Date: Jun-2004
Location: Hurstbridge
Country: DownUnda
Posts: 1,557
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Going the Hack!
Next is a view of the rootball as it came out of the pot. Sorta hard 2 tell from the pic, but this tree was well on the way 2 becoming root-bound (note that in the very 1st pic, there is no new growth present). So, out came my new favourite Bonsai tool - a razor-sharp machete! Within a couple of minutes, I had hacked off the root collar at the base, which included a handful of finger-thick roots. The amount of roots initially removed was about ¼ of the overall mass.
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