HamburgerTrain
Shohin
The first pic shows it looking pretty vigorous, I think. I couldn't see into the pot very well when I was at the nursery. Looking down into it I saw thick branches and what looked like a fat, flared base, felt chonky when I grabbed it.
When I got it home I clipped back the long shoots to the canopy so I could get close to it then cut back the nursery pot to the soil line so I could see the base.
The tree looks like it was growing healthy based off the top, but the base turned out to be exposed root, that looks rotted/dead to me.
Also think i boofed this selection pretty hard considering all the four largest branches are growing from the same spot creating reverse taper.
I've read these don't heal over from large cuts so don't know if just chopping off the large branches that I don't want to reduce to a single trunk is viable.
The other thing I considered was chopping it low, since I want a shohin tree anyway, but I'm too inexperienced to even know if the base is salvageable.
When I got it home I clipped back the long shoots to the canopy so I could get close to it then cut back the nursery pot to the soil line so I could see the base.
The tree looks like it was growing healthy based off the top, but the base turned out to be exposed root, that looks rotted/dead to me.
Also think i boofed this selection pretty hard considering all the four largest branches are growing from the same spot creating reverse taper.
I've read these don't heal over from large cuts so don't know if just chopping off the large branches that I don't want to reduce to a single trunk is viable.
The other thing I considered was chopping it low, since I want a shohin tree anyway, but I'm too inexperienced to even know if the base is salvageable.