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Originally Posted by JavaScottC
Well, it's getting too late in the season to do any major work here on pines, but wanted to squeeze this one in. Pretty self explanatory, open to pointers as well. Will be doing the wiring later today, and will post follow up.
Scott
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Hi Scott,
It's nice to have the process so well documented by photographs - that makes it easy to comment. I could go on and on about repotting, but I'll keep it to what I see as the three most important pointers here.
1) Never bare root a black pine - that is much too stressful on the tree. Work in stages instead. Take out part of the old soil this year, more at the next repot.
2) Don't wire a newly repotted tree unless you're only doing the smallest of detail wiring. This stresses the tree further (remember, your pine just went through a bare-rooting!!) and more importantly, the act of wiring creates enough leverage to further moves and damage the fine feeder roots, since they haven't had a chance to get established in the new pot. If you're going to both wire and repot at the same time, then wire first, repot second.
3) It is hard, if not impossible, to securely tie down a tree of this size with one wire. If it goes on one side of the trunk, there is always one direction in which the trunk can rock. Use two wires, so that you can anchor on both sides of the trunk.
Best regards,
Carl