Boxwood Replant

[Joel Osteen]

I have dug up a boxwood and I am looking for advice. It is so large I do not know what where to begin. 3 inch trunk 7 feet tall. Removed from the ground. Where should I start? Re plant in a large pot and wait to trim anything?

 

[sorce]

Where should I start?

You already started!

Pics!

Sorce

 

[Housguy]

I am not a boxwood expert, but depending on how much root ball you have, will probably depend on if you need to trim it or not. After you transplant it, put in shady area for it to recuperate. Good luck.

 

[Joel Osteen]

You already started!

Pics!

Sorce

I just don’t know what to do with such a large specimen this is the most I’ve ever done. Very excited but clueless need help

 

[sorce]

Damn!

It looks right strong.

I would normally leave green, but in this case, with so little interior folaige, and being so large and healthy, I'd take it all the way back to....pretty much just trunk. As it doesn't seem much current branching is useful.

The alternative, leaving green, is probably going to leave you needing to take it back further later anyway, but later, it will be weaker.

So I reckon your best bet is going hizam!

You're going to dull the shit out some blades!

Sorce

 

[Forsoothe!]

You have a tiger by his tail. You coveted something instead of planning to fulfill a destination that you could provide. It won't end well. But, if you learn to collect a size you can handle and slowly work your way up the scale, that's something. Getting it to live is only one small portion of a much larger process.

 

[Joel Osteen]

Damn!

It looks right strong.

I would normally leave green, but in this case, with so little interior folaige, and being so large and healthy, I'd take it all the way back to....pretty much just trunk. As it doesn't seem much current branching is useful.

The alternative, leaving green, is probably going to leave you needing to take it back further later anyway, but later, it will be weaker.

So I reckon your best bet is going hizam!

You're going to dull the shit out some blades!

Sorce

lol dude I found 11 of these things. Neighbor just ripped them out and didn’t want them. I was thinking the same thing I’m about to destroy some blades

 

[Joel Osteen]

You have a tiger by his tail. You coveted something instead of planning to fulfill a destination that you could provide. It won't end well. But, if you learn to collect a size you can handle and slowly work your way up the scale, that's something. Getting it to live is only one small portion of a much larger process.

This is just bizarre

 

[rockm]

This is just bizarre

Not bizarre. The original poster didn't say where he got the tree. forsoothe's response is valid without that info. Digging up a tree, then asking for help, is a little backwards.

With the additional info that the OP has almost a dozen of these popped out of the ground by a neighbor is good information on where to start.

I'd start by getting them into appropriately sized nursery containers with bonsai soil--pots should be big enough to juuuust fit around the root mass, a little root reduction isn't out of the question. I'd wash all the old soil out of the root ball and get new bonsai soil around it.

 

[sorce]

lol dude I found 11 of these things. Neighbor just ripped them out and didn’t want them. I was thinking the same thing I’m about to destroy some blades

Are you scooping them all?

Make good decisions. Take your time.

This can't be the best of eleven.

Sorce

 

[Joel Osteen]

Are you scooping them all?

Make good decisions. Take your time.

This can't be the best of eleven.

Sorce

Dude I have all of them and idk what to do. They were just going to trash them. Might try an insane forest. But idk how people do that. I have to use the original trunk yeah?

 

[sorce]

have to use the original trunk yeah

What do you mean?

Oh and... wicked sick!

A forest be should have different sized trees, I feel like these may be too close to equal sized.

But maybe selecting 2 as main trees for a future forest is a swell idea. As, you won't likely find these again.

Sorce

 

[Joel Osteen]

What do you mean?

Oh and... wicked sick!

A forest be should have different sized trees, I feel like these may be too close to equal sized.

But maybe selecting 2 as main trees for a future forest is a swell idea. As, you won't likely find these again.

Sorce

That’s a good idea.

 

[substratum]

lol dude I found 11 of these things. Neighbor just ripped them out and didn’t want them. I was thinking the same thing I’m about to destroy some blades

The thought of 11 BIG project trees like this is almost overwhelming. Do you have a shady spot you can put them into the ground, so you can focus on them one at a time in the future?

 

[Joel Osteen]

The thought of 11 BIG project trees like this is almost overwhelming. Do you have a shady spot you can put them into the ground, so you can focus on them one at a time in the future?

That’s what I was thinking too. I live on a few acres so I’ll just take them one at a time

 

[sorce]

Don't be hasty!

You can wrap whatever is left of the roots in damp towels or anything as you contemplate what actions you'll take.

I found a boxwood once that was dry AF. Not an internet has been thinking this is cool to say AF AF, but a real AF dry, and this thing popped back wonderfully.

So breath, take your time, and post as many pictures as you can so we can advise smart cuts before you need to make 2 and spend 80 more $ on blades that could be better spent on pots, or more material, or soil, etc....

IMO.

11 trees means 11 different approaches if you are doing things correctly.

Generally, I'd say ground 3 pot 3 and hack 3 but boxwood is too easy and slow growing to make wrong moves.

Boxwood For Real.

The Broadleaf Mugo. Follow me. As it be, while the information on Mugo at Bonsai4me.com may be correct....Ahem...thanks Vance! The more I think about this.... https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/the-other-swepper.27503/page-2#post-481443 The more I believe this is....outdated, to be nice...

www.bonsainut.com

Sorce

 

[Joel Osteen]

Don't be hasty!

You can wrap whatever is left of the roots in damp towels or anything as you contemplate what actions you'll take.

I found a boxwood once that was dry AF. Not an internet has been thinking this is cool to say AF AF, but a real AF dry, and this thing popped back wonderfully.

So breath, take your time, and post as many pictures as you can so we can advise smart cuts before you need to make 2 and spend 80 more $ on blades that could be better spent on pots, or more material, or soil, etc....

IMO.

11 trees means 11 different approaches if you are doing things correctly.

Generally, I'd say ground 3 pot 3 and hack 3 but boxwood is too easy and slow growing to make wrong moves.

Boxwood For Real.

The Broadleaf Mugo. Follow me. As it be, while the information on Mugo at Bonsai4me.com may be correct....Ahem...thanks Vance! The more I think about this.... https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/the-other-swepper.27503/page-2#post-481443 The more I believe this is....outdated, to be nice...

www.bonsainut.com

Sorce

This one is my current favorite. Styling advice?

 

[sorce]

Styling advice?

Good advice, is that styling advice at this point is impossible.

Styling advice that IS actually possible at this point is limited to, "cut that root off, the one perpendicular across the big one."

The rest....
Is cutting it to only what exists in the first picture and hoping it does something that allows for further styling advice.

After that, we may consider both trunks being about the same size so one should be removed blah blah blah.....doesn't matter much yet.

Unless it does, where you can leave one trunk fully leaved to severely outgrow the other, so the size difference becomes evident. But to absolute hell with that plan for now, since another of the 11 probly serves as a better double trunk specimen.

More pics!
But as a test....

Make the next one be the best double trunk specimen. This can be after days of research, or a simple reread of the above.


Sorce

 

[Joel Osteen]

Good advice, is that styling advice at this point is impossible.

Styling advice that IS actually possible at this point is limited to, "cut that root off, the one perpendicular across the big one."

The rest....
Is cutting it to only what exists in the first picture and hoping it does something that allows for further styling advice.

After that, we may consider both trunks being about the same size so one should be removed blah blah blah.....doesn't matter much yet.

Unless it does, where you can leave one trunk fully leaved to severely outgrow the other, so the size difference becomes evident. But to absolute hell with that plan for now, since another of the 11 probly serves as a better double trunk specimen.

More pics!
But as a test....

Make the next one be the best double trunk specimen. This can be after days of research, or a simple reread of the above.


Sorce

Update. Spent all day with these damn things. Ended up planting most of them in the ground by the woods on the back of my property and will try to work on them a bit as they root. It’s so hot here 90+ I don’t know if they will make it outside the ground planting

 

[sorce]

don’t know if they will make it outside the ground plantin

They should.

Sorce