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6-Mar-2004
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The tree is a Japanse Maple (Acer palmatum 'SHISHIGASHIRA') One of the dwarf maples - called "Lion's Head" These grow rather slowly. I acquired the tree at a nursery in Fremont, CA about 7 years ago. It had been field grown, probably in Oregon and then lifted and put in a large nursery container. It stood about six feet tall when I bought it - I left about 4-1/2 feet behind in the nursery dumpster, to the shock and dismay of the nursery owner.  The tree was transplanted into a growing box measuring about 15 inches on a side and 5 inches deep. It has been in this box at least 5 years. That's a bottle of Clorox towels in the foreground. I have taken to wiping down my cutting tools with that to help sterilize them, mainly when working with Japanese Maples and trees susceptible to verticillium wilt. You can see a small horizontal scar on the trunk, probably where this tree was grafted onto common Japanese Maple rootstock. I have been working at reducing this over the past few years by buffing the trunk to even out irregularities.
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6-Mar-2004
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Inspecting the pot and cutting all the wire ties. The box was still in fair condition at this point and I was going to see if I could save it for another tree.
Please note, this is a SMOOTH barked tree, and it's perfectly acceptable to handle one like this. Don't go handling your pines like this or you will scrub off coarse bark.
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6-Mar-2004
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Working my way around the perimeter of the box with a root hook. It's becoming obvious that this tree has grown well into the box and it would be a difficult prospect to remove it.
It probably would take at least 30 minutes to do it, and the box is just in fair condition, so
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6-Mar-2004
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In the interest of time and moving this along I chose one of my "gentle persuaders" - a mattock in this case. A hatchet, crowbar or hammer would work equally well, as the box was constructed with simple wire staples.
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6-Mar-2004
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A few well placed taps on the sides
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6-Mar-2004
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And some more on the bottom quickly get the job done.
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6-Mar-2004
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Now the growing box has been reduced to a pile of slats.
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6-Mar-2004
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Now I'll be using a root hook to unpack the root ball. You can find a selection over at TreeBay This one is the JR-6105 stainless steel master hook. I like it because it's shiny and easy to see in a pile of soil. I have a black steel 6104 that works equally well, although somewhat less photogenic
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6-Mar-2004
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A lot of working around the perimeter alternating with root hook and sickle to loosen up the rootball. The tree had quite a well developed root pad, which made me believe it would be possible to put it into a bonsai pot.
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6-Mar-2004
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The rootball has been made fairly flat by a combination of combing and trimming beneath. I am alternating between the root hook and root sickle, which rapidly cuts through soil and roots.
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