Boxwood question

Rene_Voortwist

Hi all,

I have a few boxwood's that I have pruned and wired to make a group out of them. I know I should wait for early spring to do root pruning and repotting, but my fingers are itching to do it now. (do more people have this problem ??) I know there are people that do their repotting in fall. What are your opinions ??

René

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Jay

Hi Rene....I am a novice so take my advise as such. Patience is possible the most important skill you need to learn. Rushing in is NEVER a good thing. That said, Spring is the best time to repot but you can also repot in Fall.

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Rene_Voortwist

Jay,

I know, I know. You are giving me a good piece of advice. I guess impatient people like myself have a few options when "bonsai-ing"... 1) make so many trees that you have something to work on every day. 2) Begin an additional hobby to fill in the spaces. :-)

Thanks jay,

rgds René

Jay

Rene.... Patience is King. But I do work on my trees daily. Some times the work is in thought. Visualizing the tree as I would like to see it grow. Planning what I need to do to get it to its future look. Then.....replanning and replanning. I have changed my mind many a time, easy to do in the mind....difficult to do once you cut a branch or wire in a direction.

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bonsaial1

don't take the itchy trail it is a bad path. that pine tree that you commented about has really taken a hit. I wish I had waited till spring. If the tree is a throw away then you can try some fall repotting. If you love the tree and expect years of joy from it, then respect it and give the tree the spring chance.

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The important thing about root pruning [ whenever it's done] is good aftercare until your tree recovers. The fall can be an excellent time to prune and repot if you have mild winters but don't let it freeze. I can't get away with it myself, it will be in the 20's here in a few weeks.

Tony

ripsgreentree

Box wood can be very hardy. But I too would take the safe path and root prune in the spring. Now the good news is that you need a full set of roots to develop the pads and structures that will make your grouping exelent. You can spend the winter shaping and wireing and designing.

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KZitzewitz

I am slowly learning the paitence thing myself, my first three trees I trasnplanted every other week, and trimmend, and wired, and wattered and fertalixzed and trimed and root pruned and put in new pots and and and and ...
whoops got carried away, sure they were all three ficus, and grew back pretty fast, but boy was I over doing it, now I am learning and finding out that if you let it grow it will be better in the long run, alot of the yamadori I have been getting, was within the last few weeks, I now have 3 new plants that I dug up from my moms old yard (shes selling the house), if they die, no big deal, if not, some may make nice trees, but even in the year I have done bonsai (actually now that I think about it its more been like a year and a half, but nly a year since it has became my third love (first and second are my wife and sister). sometimes I goto websites and browse the galaries (www.mini-bonsai.com/indexe.html is great) and I get ideas, I am thinking about getting some nice tracing paper and scetching some ideas for future trees, and then another good protion now is becoming the reading and forums to get the information so I can be a better bonsai-ist....
Doh, got side tracked again blathering about myself, sorry. Yeah paitence is really a virtue in bonsai.

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ripsgreentree

Some of us have to keep so many trees that you can't posibily get to all of them, this way they have a chance to regrow between prunings. If I only had a few trees they would soon be whittled down to just a stump. I keep hundreds so that I can work on a couple every day and I don't over work any single tree.

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