HAD TO pot up a cotoneaster.

[Mike Corazzi]

Neighbor had already dug up. I cut off some large girdling roots that didn't have many fine ones on them.
Took off maybe 2/3 of foliage. Wired into pot and poured in soil. Lots of fine roots close to nebari now covered. Don't think it dried out before the pot.

Sooooooooooo.....

Live or die? (guesses)

 

[sorce]

Live cuz why not!

Sorce

 

[_#1_]

 

[Shibui]

It is a cotoneaster so should survive almost anything.

 

[Potawatomi13]

Why not?

 

[Tieball]

I’d like to see a photo.

 

[just.wing.it]

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[Vance Wood]

I’d like to see a photo.

The Kings new clothes??

 

[Mike Corazzi]

Okay ...okay.... here's a pic. Sans a couple hundred suckers. Probably more to go but this is it this morning.

 

[Cable]

It should be fine.

 

[AlainK]

Protect if from frost ! I lost some that I repotted in late autumn, the roots didn't have time to establish themselves. I left them unprotected outside and we had some frost, not very often, not for very long, and no lower than -5,-6° C (21-23 F), but they didn't make it through the winter.

A cold frame might be a good place...

 

[Mike Corazzi]

Hold your collective breaths.
Workin' on the lil devil.

Good things are happening.

Pix one of these days.

 

[Mike Corazzi]

A little more stuff done. Not done done....but MORE stuff done.

 

[Cactus Pear]

Very impressive.

 

[leatherback]

Nice but.. Give it some time to settle in its new home before you do any more stuff to it. Just leave everything else on till it is happy again.

 

[Mike Corazzi]

That's the plan. I know it would look better in a taller or round pot where the main limb would stick out, but that's for later.

 

[Mike Corazzi]

That pot it's in was just what I had when I brought home the plastic bag of limbs, leaves, roots, and dirt clods. Used it to preserve moisture
from the shock. There was even a root mass from a different cotoneaster in the pile of stuff she had to get rid of.

 

[Mike Corazzi]

Put it in a blue pot to accent the red berries. If and when they show up.
It's grown a bit.



I even found the VERY first pic of it.

 

[Hartinez]

Put it in a blue pot to accent the red berries. If and when they show up.
It's grown a bit.

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I even found the VERY first pic of it.

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I love Cotoneaster and this one is very cool.

 

[AlainK]

Very nice tree, a lot of character.

How big is it ?