AlainK
Imperial Masterpiece
Another Dunkeld Larch from a batch of 2yr-old seedlings I bought in 2008.
I first put them in plastic pots, then used aquatic plant baskets. I wired this one, and in March 2012, this is how it looked like:
I nearly lost it from lack of watering during a hot period when I was away: almost all the leaves ware burnt, and I really thought it was a goner, but since it was in a pond basket, I thought I could try to put in in a larger plastic pot with 5-7 mm pozzolane and put it in the shade to keep the roots moist but not soaked. And it worked.
End of July 2015, it had lost a few branches, but was on its way to recover:
I kept it like that for some time, wired it, ...
... wired it some more...
... and finally decided to repot it a few days ago:
I thought there would be many more roots:
So I pruned about 1/3rd of the roots and repotted it in a shallow pot that I had just spared from another one:
A bit too much on the right, but we'll see to it next year, if it survives...
I first put them in plastic pots, then used aquatic plant baskets. I wired this one, and in March 2012, this is how it looked like:
I nearly lost it from lack of watering during a hot period when I was away: almost all the leaves ware burnt, and I really thought it was a goner, but since it was in a pond basket, I thought I could try to put in in a larger plastic pot with 5-7 mm pozzolane and put it in the shade to keep the roots moist but not soaked. And it worked.
End of July 2015, it had lost a few branches, but was on its way to recover:
I kept it like that for some time, wired it, ...
... wired it some more...
... and finally decided to repot it a few days ago:
I thought there would be many more roots:
So I pruned about 1/3rd of the roots and repotted it in a shallow pot that I had just spared from another one:
A bit too much on the right, but we'll see to it next year, if it survives...
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