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It seems to me that the rootball is now exceptionally small for the overall size of the tree. Is that so? Is it unusually so?
 

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It seems to me that the rootball is now exceptionally small for the overall size of the tree. Is that so? Is it unusually so?
That's the typical, intended optical illusion when putting a tree onto a slab sort of or or on a slab. I take trees out of the original pot trying to do this without reducing ANY roots. The firm rootball goes onto the slab and some substrate is added around. So in fact there is MORE root area available than before usually. Then most of the time it looks like it's hard to believe that a tree can survive with such a small space available for the roots. It is a most welcome optical illusion.

This is probably not the final lab. Eventually the tree will go onto a more elegant one, I think. Or the stoneage for me is over and I go back to pots. Or so. Never stand still as artist.
 
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