Fantastic article - not to mention great photos.

Well all of them except that one of some guy holding a root ball and looking into the camera lens - that one looks kind of awkward

Thnaks for taking the time to do this. It will be of much help to many people in the future.

Great work Chris and thankyou for taking the time to document and produce an extremely useful article.

All the best,

Aaron

Chris, thanks for so detailed description of repotting. I find this article most useful with many great photos and interesting hints. Keep up great work

Great article! Would you happen to have a printable version of this article that we could download? I would like to print it out and keep it as a reference...

Thanks again for the great information.

Well, now I remember why my earlier pages were all thumbnailed! Since I am on dial-up at home, it takes a long time for my page to load! I may have to break it into several pages.

You can find the whole article at http://www.bonsaikc.com/repotting_established.htm . It's a large page, so let it load. It prints out to about 18 pages.

Great article Chris

I just wanted to clarify something about the wiring which wasn't clear to me. Let me see if I can describe what I think you are doing:

- You have wire entering the pot at 4 corners
- Take wire from left corner over root in left corner and bend toward the right corner root.
- twist this piece with the wire in the right corner over the root in the right corner.
- rotate tree clockwise 1/4 so the twisted wire is now on the left.
- repeat until all corners are done.

Is this correct?

A little diagram in your article would be nice...

I think you are understanding correctly to a point. The result when you get to the end is 4 wires more or less parallel to the sides of the pot. On the last leg, you probably won't have a last end, so make one by twisting a length of wire around that first wire and use that tail and the last wire to cinch up the whole harness. It's important that this tie be located directly over the portion of the nebari with the most upward force, in other words, opposite any tendency to tip over.

Ok - I get the wiring layout but I don't know why you aim to finish in the corner where the tree is most likely to lift.

Why would the final twist be any more secure than the rest?

If anything I would have assumed you START in the corner where the tree wants to lift out.

Great article. Thankyou for the effort.

Sorry it took me so long to respond to your last point, Jeremy. The important part here is that we are not ending in a corner. We are ending on the middle of the left side, where the most force will be lifting. When I make a tail to tie to my first wire, then twist that with the leading end, I am making the strongest connection yet. We are building a kind of basket around the nebari, and as I pull, then twist (never pull and twist at the same time!), I am cinching everything up tighter but giving the most hold over this part of the nebari. I hope that helps.