darrellw
Mame
I couldn't find an appropriate forum for this, so I guess "General Discussion" will do.
Has anyone tried to balance the nebari by selective pruning of the root mass? For example, I have a field maple with very one-sided nebari. I'm going to thread graft some seedlings on the empty side to fill in, but given that the rest of the nebari formed during years in the ground, I know it will take time for the new roots to approach the current ones. So I'm thinking once the grafts are well established that I would keep the feeder roots on the current nebari well trimmed, and let the new ones go crazy for a few years. This is what we can do with the tops (of course, we usually get more than one shot at it in a year!), but I've never seen a discussion of doing the same with the roots.
Thoughts?
-Darrell
Has anyone tried to balance the nebari by selective pruning of the root mass? For example, I have a field maple with very one-sided nebari. I'm going to thread graft some seedlings on the empty side to fill in, but given that the rest of the nebari formed during years in the ground, I know it will take time for the new roots to approach the current ones. So I'm thinking once the grafts are well established that I would keep the feeder roots on the current nebari well trimmed, and let the new ones go crazy for a few years. This is what we can do with the tops (of course, we usually get more than one shot at it in a year!), but I've never seen a discussion of doing the same with the roots.
Thoughts?
-Darrell