Chinese Elm #2

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Roots trimmed back and getting situated in a cheap Chinese pot:

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I buried it pretty deep to encourage new roots in the bare spots and protect the ones I have.
 

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Thanks a lot for remembering and showing me.
Excellent!

Looks great bro!

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This looks really great.
Im glad I subbed to the thread so i was told when you updated it :)
 

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Why not cut back to those three finer branches at the top? Why leave the long, straight section at the apex?:confused:
Same reason I left long stubs when I did the chops earlier in this thread - I'll wait for it to bud and then reduce back to the one I like. I'll probably only end up keeping a half-inch of the uppermost straight section.

Check out this picture, and then the next one in the sequence: Chinese Elm #2
 

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Interesting choice for the pot and top substrate too! Please update this with a nice pic in full foliage... The base transformation came along far better then I expected.

Haha, the pot was mostly a matter of convenience - it was what I had lying around that would accommodate the roots and was deep enough for me to bury them well. Next year I think it will be ready for something nicer.

My substrate mix is 50% akadama, 25% scoria, and 25% pumice.

Thanks; I'm looking forward to posting a leafy picture :)
 

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Haha, the pot was mostly a matter of convenience - it was what I had lying around that would accommodate the roots and was deep enough for me to bury them well.

I am generally not a fan of glazed but honest I can see that working out just fine for a good long while :cool:

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Same reason I left long stubs when I did the chops earlier in this thread - I'll wait for it to bud and then reduce back to the one I like. I'll probably only end up keeping a half-inch of the uppermost straight section.

Check out this picture, and then the next one in the sequence: Chinese Elm #2



If I go back thru this thread, I'm sure I'll get thirsty!!!! It ain't even 10:00 am!!! I'll blame you when I'm sleeping at WeeTherien's birthday party!!

Good tree....plenty of character in the trunk.:cool:
 
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Great transformation from what you started with. I'll have to take another look at the mess of a tree I have.
 

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Damn....I didn't even see The pot...

Where is the "bout to puke" smily?

That's hideous.

Smash it.

For the love of Aesthetics.....
Dust to dust that thing.

I wouldn't use that as a cat litter box.

I wouldn't let Mr. Watson pee on it.

I wouldn't cover the holes and cool beers in it.

If I was subscribed to this thread, I'd unsubscribe to never see that pot again.

I wouldn't bury a dead squirrel in that thing, even if that dead squirrel just ate that tree.

I'd Photoshop it out of those pics or delete them.

I'd plant a chunk of concrete in it, dropped in from 4ft above it.

I'd chain a chunk of concrete to it and throw it in a lake, but I wouldn't want to be so mean to the concrete, or piss off the Bass!

If you could turn that pot inside out, it might look better, but I would still break it. Twice.

If you tried to dust to dust it, earth would probly reject it and send you an email on how to shoot it into outer space.

Then we got a bunch of pissed off Aliens and thats not gonna end pretty.

But right before they come kill us we can ask them to borrow a time machine to go back and unmake that pot.

I'd sneak that pot to Japan, and plant a really good tree in it on the sneak, they'd ship it back so fast, we could do it all the time and get some really good stuff here!

That pot doesn't NEED a drainage layer, it needs to BECOME a drainage layer.
But grow peppers in that pot, cuz any tree grown in it will look like shit, even in your hands.

Glad that pot ain't in the selfie thread, I'd report it. Yes. REPORT.
(shit, it better not be in the selfie thread!)

It might be good to use that ugly Ass "lip" to determine the furthest possible angle your picture can be on before it falls off the nail.

If that pot was in a selfie, it would make your mustache look like shit. Fuck that!

If I trimmed my beard over that pot, the hairs would know not to land in that POS.

Plant that pot in a good pot for 30 years to teach it a lesson.

Scratch the chop off to save that guy some face.

If Thams makes a sub-category, "shittiest pots", you can donate the headliner!

A newb wouldn't use that pot.

That pot isn't worthy of image-4.jpeg

I'd say plant a vigorous ficus in it so it can break it, but that MYC, the rest of your ficus will die in spite.

I wouldn't smash a Japanese Beetle with that pot.

A nice pot.
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That pot.
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:p

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I guess I could mention I love the glaze....

But that's like saying I like the shade of that things:rolleyes: lipstick....

Still can't look at it for more than 10 seconds without tasting stomach acids.

A dude without a pot to piss in wouldn't use that pot.

That pot is an insult to weed.

I wouldn't grow weeds in that pot.

Hell...weeds wouldn't grow in that pot.

Sorce
 
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