whats the general rule for waiting to repot after a prune and style? or is it safer to repot then wait to prune and style?
Generally...
With an elm, or any D...
You're going to come into repotting season with stubs from your fall cutback. (Within 2 weeks of leaf drop)
Repot....
Then 3-4 weeks later you'll be gently wiring the new hardened or almost hardened shoots.
There is a
@markyscott thread with the pro schedule.
Of course...as always, it depends though!
As we see here, and with the million situations you encounter...purchasing new trees, collecting stuff, health..
There are mad stages of grow out!
But basically....
Even if really well secured in the pot....
You don't watch to much mess with a fresh repot.
After them new shoots harden though..
The roots will have grown as much as well...
So gentle wiring is safe.
The best take away aha for anyone reading this....
If you managed to set back an elm...
Your work was Very Too Rough!
Work that will set back an Elm will most definitely kill many other trees.
I would guess a poor root mass to begin with is your problem here.
Which would make your repotting time...poor...but absolutely necessary....
And if you just water....it will live.
One of my elms has some yeller leaves too...
Very similar.
Lol!
I guess it don't help that the pot it's in is on a hair pin pivot...so it twirls in the breeze like a figure skater!
Sorce