Mike Corazzi
Masterpiece
This is a fairly old procumbens. Probably 20+ years old.
It's repot time so I have done the junipers and this was the last one. The others were all good bunches of roots. Went like clockwork.
Then came THIS ONE!
It was stuck to the round plastic pot and I needed a hammer to drive a blade around the rim to lift it.
It came out with ...not a bunch of roots... but a pancake only about an inch to an inch and a half of roots. WAY less than the pot COULD have held.
The balance of the soil just came off in a chunk. Not a bad chunk, but a nice easy draining mass of the soil it was in.
Soooo... I repotted it without needing to cut off roots. The "disk" of roots fit the top of the new pot (as pictured) and I filled the pot with my usual mix and then placed the thing on the soil and chopsticked around to get it settled. Wired in solidly.
Backstory: I know junies like sun. I may have "babied" it in that I had it on a shelf that got full sun til about 2 PM and then gradual shade for the rest of the day.
I am reluctant to stick it in FULL SUN now. Being that the root "ball/disk" is so unusual, I am wondering if it would tolerate full sun.
I would probably move it when our seasonal kiln/oven/forge shows up this summer.
Damn, I better end this encyclopedia of uncertainty.
What do YOU think? Should it go in full sun? Gradual sun? Suggestions and blame gladly solicited.
Yellow lines are approximately the space of roots now.
The stuff on the lower left is not this tree. It's a budding elm BEHIND the tree.
It's repot time so I have done the junipers and this was the last one. The others were all good bunches of roots. Went like clockwork.
Then came THIS ONE!
It was stuck to the round plastic pot and I needed a hammer to drive a blade around the rim to lift it.
It came out with ...not a bunch of roots... but a pancake only about an inch to an inch and a half of roots. WAY less than the pot COULD have held.
The balance of the soil just came off in a chunk. Not a bad chunk, but a nice easy draining mass of the soil it was in.
Soooo... I repotted it without needing to cut off roots. The "disk" of roots fit the top of the new pot (as pictured) and I filled the pot with my usual mix and then placed the thing on the soil and chopsticked around to get it settled. Wired in solidly.
Backstory: I know junies like sun. I may have "babied" it in that I had it on a shelf that got full sun til about 2 PM and then gradual shade for the rest of the day.
I am reluctant to stick it in FULL SUN now. Being that the root "ball/disk" is so unusual, I am wondering if it would tolerate full sun.
I would probably move it when our seasonal kiln/oven/forge shows up this summer.
Damn, I better end this encyclopedia of uncertainty.
What do YOU think? Should it go in full sun? Gradual sun? Suggestions and blame gladly solicited.
Yellow lines are approximately the space of roots now.
The stuff on the lower left is not this tree. It's a budding elm BEHIND the tree.